{"product_id":"9781990048579","title":"Strong Words 3","description":"\u003cspan class=\"pasteContent_RTE\"\u003eStrong   Words 3 showcases the best of the best of Aotearoa New Zealand's contemporary   essays from 2021 and 2022. Selected from entries into the Landfall Essay   Competition, these essays are explorative, illuminating, provocative,   beautifully written and - most of all - inspiring. Strong Words 3 is packed   with Aotearoa New Zealand's most compelling new writing on contemporary   issues. It is essential reading.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: unset; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--mud-typography-default-letterspacing); text-transform: var(--mud-typography-default-text-transform);\"\u003eA central part of New Zealand's literary landscape since 1997, the annual   Landfall Essay.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: unset; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--mud-typography-default-letterspacing); text-transform: var(--mud-typography-default-text-transform);\"\u003eCompetition is Aotearoa's most prestigious essay writing competition. Every   year these essays open up new avenues of thought, explore new ways of looking   at contemporary issues and bring new narratives to the forefront. Past   winners include Airini Beautrais, Ashleigh Young, Gregory O'Brien, Diana   Bridge, Elizabeth Smither, Tracey Slaughter, Laurence Fearnley and Alie   Benge. The biennial Strong Words series was launched in 2019 and gathers the   most powerful winning, shortlisted and commended Landfall Essay Competition   writing within the covers of one book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: unset; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--mud-typography-default-letterspacing); text-transform: var(--mud-typography-default-text-transform);\"\u003eAmong the rich reading featured in Strong Words 3 are the 2021 and 2022   Landfall Essay Competition winners: 'The New Man' by Andrew Dean, a   politically and socially complex piece that traces Dean's ancestry and   examines New Zealand's shamefully long record of anti Semitism; and   'Lumpectomy' by Tina Makereti, a personal and political exploration of the   body and its boundaries, and health care (and its boundaries) in Aotearoa. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: unset; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--mud-typography-default-letterspacing); text-transform: var(--mud-typography-default-text-transform);\"\u003eOther essayists featured in Strong Words 3 tackle topics such as grief,   lost language, poetic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: unset; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--mud-typography-default-letterspacing); text-transform: var(--mud-typography-default-text-transform);\"\u003echildhood recollections, gender, the long aftermath of colonisation, the   nature of traumatic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: unset; text-align: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--mud-typography-default-letterspacing); text-transform: var(--mud-typography-default-text-transform);\"\u003ememory, and working as a comedian while solo parenting.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Otago University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65441613742429,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781990048579.jpg?v=1789111171","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781990048579","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}