Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop

Bruce Bisset was a professional performance poet in Aotearoa/New Zealand 1979-86, publishing 3 books in that time. Believing that "performance is half the art", when he stopped performing he stopped...

The Irish Annals of New Zealand is essentially a Joycean tour-de-force through New Zealand's history from the Irish rather than the usual English point of view. However, as well as historical facts...

A unique interview with John Lennon which was recorded when The Beatles were in New Zealand in 1964. It was recorded by Psychology Professor Dr Tony Taylor who was at the time doing a study into...

This collection of poems by New Zealand poet Michael O'Leary takes the reader through the several suburbs and areas that make up the poet's hometown. O'Leary looks at Central. North, South, East and...

Neither Here Nor There is an intriguing story about two bohemian down and outs who are caught in an existential dilemma: They don't know which city they live in, Auckland or Dunedin. This Beckettian...

Out of It concerns a game of cricket played between New Zealand and an 'Out of It' Eleven which includes several of the main character, PSM's heroes and villains from his bohemian past. He is in...

Straight is the first in Michael O'Leary's trilogy, Dreamlander Express. It is the story of Paul Calvert who returns to his hometown, Auckland, after being away in 'dreamland' for several years. He...

Michael O'Leary's Selected Poems takes the reader through many and varied encounters with the world, both inner and outer. He writes of love and war, good and evil and several other states of mind...

Wednesday's Women This study explores the reasons why so few women writers in Aotearoa New Zealand were seen as prominent figures in the literary scene from the end of World War Two up to the time...