Summer reads: a bouquet of poems
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Summer reads, hot off the press
Are you looking for a summer read? Or a holiday treat for a reader in your life? How about the latest from the NZCLT Collection, hot off the press?
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Wellington Bamboo Branch Songs: A crowd translation project
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Wai-te-ata Press celebrates Italian Language Week
From 19-25 October, Wai-te-ata Press joined a worldwide celebration of the 20th anniversary of Italian Language Week.
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International Translation Day celebrated with Kiwi poems translated into Persian
PhD candidates Fahim Afarinsadi, Nastaran Arjomandi, and Mohsen Kafi presented some of their work which forms a bilingual edition of Best New Zealand Poems 2017, in a collaboration between the School of Languages and Cultures and Wai-te-ata Press.