Comics erode the most fundamental habits. Of humane, civilized living. I wrote and drew this new issue of the Pickle mini-comic in November and it was first distributed at the New Zealand Arts Foundation Art Awards. Health dramas, moving to Wellington, and the faultlines in which we all live.

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I Got His Blood on Me. A bloodied figure staggers into a new century, a cranky. Ghost stops a Kāpiti train, a sealer meets death in Fiordland. Bes t First Book Award 2013.

On Aug 15, 2013. Inadequately blue the sky folds open every morning like origami and i fold out with it, like butterflies, like pretty birds, lifting away, only to be caught in the creases of the ocean. they say that if you make one thousand paper cranes, you get a wish. On Aug 15, 2013. Dust A china elephant Small, delicate Sat still on the mantle. But why had she kept it? La Langue Française Madeleine Ballard. On Aug 15, 2013.

I could not be more delighted about this! And Peter Van der Fluit.

Three new releases in August. Has been a long labour of love for its editor Dr John Weir. Through a shared interest in literature and religion, he and Baxter became close friends and confidants. Although primarily known as a poet, Baxter was a prolific prose writer, very little of which was previously published in book form.