The VUP Home Reader

The VUP Home Reader is everything we’re working on at the moment—extracts of books which were published in February and March, books which are in the warehouse or on the water, final proofs and uncorrected proofs, manuscripts and work-in-progress—stretching into 2021. We offer it as company, as entertainment, as a promise.

Stay safe and well.

Stay home and read!

Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou.

Fergus Barrowman, Publisher

Craig Gamble, Publishing Manager

Kyleigh Hodgson, Editor

Kirsten McDougall, Publicity Director

Jasmine Sargent, Editor

Ashleigh Young, Editor

Contents

Eamonn Marra, Home

Freya Daly Sadgrove, Heron

Oscar Upperton, Dutch Instruction

Alison Douglass, from Assessment of Mental Capacity

Madison Hamill, Speculative Fiction

Mikaela Nyman, from Sado

Breton Dukes, The Swimmers

Michele Amas, Home town

Natalie Morrison, from Pins

Ian Wedde, from The Reed Warbler

Brian Easton, from Not in Narrow Seas

Hinemoana Baker, How to Survive on a Plinth

Pip Adam, from Nothing to See

James Brown, Metro

Rata Gordon, Vagator

Craig Gamble, The Rule of Twelfths

David Coventry, from Dance Prone

Airini Beautrais, from an untitled short story collection

Miro Bilbrough, from In the Time of the Manaroans

Kate Camp, How to Be Happy Though Human

Chloe Lane, from The Swimmers

Phil Lester, from Healthy Bee, Sick Bee

Ingrid Horrocks, Canyon Country: The Elk

Bernadette Hall, from Fancy Dancing

Tusiata Avia, Samoan funeral with Aunty

Catherine Chidgey, from Remote Sympathy

Geoff Cochrane, Chosen

Bill Manhire, Wow

Tara Black, from This Is Not a Pipe

James K. Baxter, The Fleece

John Newton, from Escape Path Lighting

Tina Makereti, Tea

Ruby Solly, Arrival

Rebecca Reilly, from Vines

Ash Davida Jane, conversation / conservation

Patrick Evans, from Bluffworld

Susanna Gendall, from The Disinvent Movement

Danyl McLauchlan, The Hunger and the Rain

Vincent O’Sullivan, Once

Kirsten McDougall, from She’s a Killer

Sue Orr, from Loop Station

Elizabeth Knox, Faulty Valve