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Holding the ACEs: Adverse Childhood Events in NZ by Glenn Colquhoun
$18.00 NZD
Category: Health & wellbeing
"I live on a beach. It's wide and stretches. All sorts of things wash up there. Me especially. On a good day I can see Ruapehu, Taranaki, the Tararuas and Kapiti. The dead wander by, noisy and full of chat. They stop me being scared. The living are another kettle of fish. Next door is a small town. Th ...Show more
Jumping Ship & Other Essays by Glenn Colquhoun
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
"A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pākehā and Māori, and on the practice of medicine...Includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Mātauranga te Tiriti; a keynote address for the English teachers ...Show more
Late Love (BWB Texts) by Glenn Colquhoun
$15.00 NZD
Category: Health & wellbeing | Series: BWB Texts
'Most of the time I have no idea what to do with them or what to say in response to them.' Award-winning New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun is also a doctor who works with struggling young people at the margins, painfully aware of the limits of his role. In this BWB Text he offers penetrating insight int ...Show more
Letters to Young People by Glenn Colquhoun
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
“It is difficult to ignore the story of a young person. When they are in pain, that pain seems all the more demanding because they are vulnerable and because their life still lies ahead of them ... I have learnt that the most important medicine they need from me is to listen to these stories, to hold th ...Show more
Playing God by Glenn Colquhoun
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003 (Poetry Section & Reader's Choice). Glenn Colquhoun'?s The Art of Walking Upright won the 2000 Montana NZ best first book award for poetry. He has also published a children'?s book and An Explanation of Poetry to my Father, which sold over 1000 copies. T ...Show more
The Art of Walking Upright by Glenn Colquhoun
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2000 winner Best first book - poetry. Glenn is a doctor. During his training he took a year off to live in a remote Bay of Islands community. This is a profound, beautiful and funny distillation of that experience. Rich insights into Maori and Pakeha - a vision of Aotearo ...Show more
The Small Girl Who Lives Next Door / Te Kōtiro Nohinohi e Noho Pātata Ana by Glenn Colquhoun
$25.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
In this book Glenn Colquhoun and Rautini O'Brien tell the story of a young Pakeha boy learning Te Reo Maori. The journey takes him from the small girl who lives next door, through the landscape surrounding his town, and brings him back home to a street that will never quite seem the same again.
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