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“michelle elvy”

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  • the everrumble

    by Michelle Elvy ...
    the everrumble is a poetic imagining of intense focus and sweeping ideas. Zettie’s story is fluid and in motion, transcending geographies and time. She stops talking, at age seven, and starts to listen – to the worlds she finds in language and books, and to the people and places she encounters as she moves across continents. Her silence connects her to people, to nature and to the elemental world. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha

    An anthology of new writing for a changed world

    Edited by Witi Ihimaera, Michelle Elvy ...
    Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole, of the shelter. In a series of rich conversations, those present discuss our world in the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ko Aotearoa Tatou/We Are New Zealand

    An Anthology

    Edited by Paula Morris, James Norcliffe, Michelle Elvy ...
    In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness. Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ko Aotearoa Tatou/We Are New Zealand

    An Anthology

    Edited by Paula Morris, James Norcliffe, Michelle Elvy ...
    In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the same time, issued a rebuke to hatred and divisiveness. Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Growing Up Asian in Australia

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