The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016

by Nicola Legat (Editor)

Overview

This collection of provocative, impassioned essays by smart thinkers will tune up your intellectual engine.

Featuring: Dan Salmon on tuna • Paul McDonald on the places you'll go • Mike Joy on river radicalism • David Hall on green growth • James Chapman and William Tunmer on why kids can't read • Wayne Barrar on diatoms • Ridvan Firestone on obesity • Mike Grimshaw on Christchurch • Richard Shaw on why the kids don't vote • Kerry Taylor on spies • Claire Robinson on grey hair • Peter Meihana on Maori privilege • Krushil Watene on water ownership • Jeff McNeill on Messines • Chris Gallavin on murder • Teena Brown Pulu on being Pasifika and Maori • Jarrod Gilbert on gangs, lies and statistics • Paula Morris on a road-end in Denmark • Paul Thomas on shallowness • David Slack on the melancholy of fifty-something.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780994136398
Publisher:	Massey University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Series:	The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Nicola Legat ONZM is the publisher at Massey University Press. She has had a distinguished career in journalism and was a senior writer at North & South and then the editor of Metro magazine for five years. She is the former publishing director of Random House New Zealand and the deputy chair of the Auckland Writers Festival.