Download or read book Shaggy Magpie Songs written by Murray Edmond and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little bubbly, a little bitter, a little absurd, and echoing with the sound of laughter, these poem-songs have shaggy tales to tell. Shaggy Magpie Songs is a celebration of poetry's potential – for drama and comedy, narrative and nonsense. Presented in four parts – Praise, Nonsense, Blues and Pop – the poems are at times jazzy and rollicking, at other times crooningly melancholic. Edmond writes: ‘Songs are poems that are incomplete without their music, so I think of these poems as all wanting to get off the page and start singing and dancing. The magpies of Aotearoa are silly (and slightly dangerous) birds who have given rise to the most profound line in the New Zealand poetry canon: Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle . . . . I like to think the poems are the kind of songs that magpies might sing if they were into making up words: a little bubbly, a little bitter, a little absurd, and echoing with the sound of laughter: songs with shaggy tales to tell.'

Download or read book Encountering China written by Duncan Campbell and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 2022 is the fiftieth anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between the People' s Republic of China and New Zealand. This collection of 50 texts, written by diplomats and poets, politicians and academics, students and businesspeople, reflects on personal experiences of China over the last half century.It offers a unique insight into the changing face of what is now one of the world' s great powers, and our relationship with it.Contributors include Hone Tuwhare, Nina Mingya Powles, John McKinnon, James Ng, Alison Wong, Murray Edmond, Meng Foon and Pauline Keating.

Download or read book Coyote and Magpie written by Duane Shillinger and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyote and Magpie reexamines the murder charge and, often under difficult conditions, collects information that will be used during a new trial. Involved in the quest for new information and eventual justice are Deputy Sheriff Lenny Craig and citizen Delmar Mentis, who take the reader along with them as they investigate every aspect of the crime that they believe was committed by Irana Dubliski. As evidence is collected, Deputy Craig and Delmar Mentis convince Sheriff Chester Overman and Judge Wolfe that the ultimate sentence be given to Irana Dubliski. Debts due from certain legislators enable the law enforcement group to carry out an unusual punishment at the old, vacated prison. Strange legal and quasi legal machinations are not uncommon in Wyoming, and although this is a purely fictional possibility, that very possibility of using the old prison during an actual case was discussed in 1992. What will Deputy Craig and Delmar Mentis achieve in their investigation and court room drama? What event awaits the defendant Irana Dubliski at the old prison? We shall see as Coyote and Magpie is read.

Download or read book A Forthcoming Wizard written by Jody Lynn Nye and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm...until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to a great wizard. Now she is on an important quest where the lessons of her apprenticeship pale in comparison to those learned in life-or-death situations. She has become the guardian of a very special book that can alter everything in existence... a race of centaurs gone with an editor's pen, a mountain range flattened with a revised rune, and life as Tildi has known it changed in the blink of an eye. Gone are her preconceptions of society and order. Gone are her trusting ways and belief in her superiors' honesty. But also gone is the shrinking violet smallfolk who masqueraded as a boy to secure an apprenticeship. Tildi has changed too, and she realizes that the fate of the world rests in her hands. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Magpie Warrior written by Lorretta Lynde and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eight-year-old Andrew Finnegans family is murdered in their home in Derry City of Northern Ireland in 1958, Aunt Eibhln brings him home to live with her. While growing up in her Bureen Woods home, Andrew and his aunt form a special and lasting bondthe ability to communicate telepathically. Now, decades later, Andrew has failed to reach his aunt through their mental communication. He fears that she may be in danger. With his wife, Colleen, and their great-niece Aisling, Andrew leaves his beloved Big Horn Mountains in Montana and travels to Ireland to search for his aunt. Through this journey, he retraces the steps of his own history. During this mystical and dangerous mission of discovery, their path is illuminated with the help of Crow Indian medicine men, Irish travelers, a priest, and several other unlikely guides. Clues from Andrews life and the exploits of the mysterious MacCumhaill prove vital to the quest to find Aunt Eibhln. But Andrew is not the only one searching for his aunt, and the past and present suddenly collide and put the group in great peril.

Download or read book Sing song written by Anne Kennedy and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry deals with the domestic life of a family, mother, father, and two small children, and in particular about the grueling experience of eczema from which the little girl suffers. Told from the mother's point of view and set amid moves of house, the pressures on a bicultural household, and endless fruitless encounters with healers of many kinds, the poetry turns into a moving and profoundly recognizable picture of the strains, anxieties, fatigue, and desperation of parenthood.

Download or read book Encyclop dia Mundarica written by Johann Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Songs and Ballads of Greater Britain written by Edmund Arthur Helps and published by London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent. This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bird Songs from Around the World written by Les Beletsky and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces two hundred birds from six continents with brief descriptions, color illustrations, and audio recordings of songs and calls which can be played with the attached digital audio player.

Download or read book Songs of Kaumatua written by Dr. Mervyn McLean and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty traditional Maori songs of Tuhoe sung by Kino Hughes are presented in this book and CD collection. The text of each song is given in both English and Maori along with a musical transcription. Kino Hughes was an outstanding singer, orator, and respected Kaumatua who, determined to preserve for future generations all the songs he knew, asked these authors to compile this magnificent record. The introduction includes information on Kino Hughes, on the people of the Tuhoe Maori tribe, on the song categories used, and on the music. This important record of Maori music includes photographs, a glossary, notes on the texts, transcriptions, and an index of song types. Includes 2 CD-ROMs.

Download or read book Pacific Search written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Young Folks written by John Townsend Trowbridge and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Song of the Wind written by Nicolette Andrews and published by Magpie Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate brought them together. Duty tore them apart. Will betrayal sever their ties for good? Suzume returned to the palace seeking answers, but her father, the emperor, thrusts her into the center of court politics instead. She thought she knew yokai, but everything she thought was a lie. As she uncovers the origins of her power, immortal attacks on the palace increase, forcing Suzume to make an impossible choice. Use her power to protect her family or let Kaito and the dragons destroy humanity. Kaito finds his kingdom in ruins, infested by lesser dragons, and led by an imposter. Reclaiming his throne is easy. Winning the trust of the yokai clans again isn’t as simple. His trusted advisors are dead or scattered. Immortal populations are dwindling after being hunted to mere extension by humans. To unite the fractured clans, Kaito must find friends he can trust, and eliminate the human empire. Caught on opposite sides of an escalating war, they each fight to protect their people. But torn apart by circumstance and with sinister plots working to keep them separated, misunderstandings grow. Can Suzume and Kaito reach one another or will war and betrayal sever their bond?

Download or read book Always Song in the Water written by Gregory O’Brien and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in Northland and heading into the blue beyond, Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters and epiphanies, a dinghy ride through New Zealand’s oceanic imagination.Every spring on Gregory O’Brien’s front lawn, on a ridgetop in Hataitai, an upside-down dinghy blooms with flowering clematis. In this book, O’Brien takes his metaphorical dinghy to the edges of New Zealand – starting with a road trip through Northland and then voyaging out into the Pacific, to lead us into some under-explored territories of the South Pacific imagination.With creative spirits such as Janet Frame, Ralph Hotere, Robin White, John Pule and Epeli Hau‘ofa as touchstones, O’Brien suggests how we New Zealanders might be re-imagining ourselves as an oceanic people on a small island in a big piece of water.Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters, sightings and unexpected epiphanies. It is a high-spirited, personal and inventive account of being alive at the outer extremities of Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘This is my field notebook, my voyaging logbook,’ Gregory O’Brien writes, ‘this is my Schubert played on a barrel organ, my whale survey, my songbook.’Among the many artists whose work is featured are John Pule, Robin White, Phil Dadson, Fiona Hall, Euan Macleod, Laurence Aberhart and the Sydney-based painter Noel McKenna, who produced numerous works specifically for this book.

Download or read book Household News written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Live in the Mystery written by Margaret Hunt and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live in the Mystery is a compilation of astonishing true stories of a woman’s journey of discovery and personal growth. Her life is suddenly and provocatively interrupted by coincidences, synchronicities, and remarkable dreams. This is an inviting account of a professional woman’s encounter with unknown and unseen forces that disrupt her life and provoke her to find her voice and a power she hadn’t experienced before. The author takes us on an inquisitive and curious quest of her personal awakening through travels, dreams and extraordinary coincidences. Live in the Mystery was inspired by the author’s spiritual curiosity and other-worldly experiences. Her writing and art come through her discovery of a creative way of being and living in the world, and trusting in a voice greater than her own.

Download or read book Late Song written by Lauris Edmond and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A last collection by a favorite poet, this was accepted for publication just before Lauris Edmond's death in January 2000. The poems in this last book always imply the presence of others, often addressing them directly: there are a multitude of yous in Late Song.