Anna Jackson has six books of her poetry to her name, but her latest Actions & Travels focuses on the work of others. Rather than an academic textbook, Actions & Travels explores how poetry works through the discussion of 100 poems.

Renowned Maori leader Tā Tipene O'Regan (Ngāi Tahu) was named 2022 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year at a digital ceremony this week. This year marks the 25th anniversary since Tā Tipene successfully led the negotiation of one of Aotearoa's first major iwi settlements, Te Kerēme - the Ngāi Tahu Claim.

Artist and writer Areez Katki is a rising star in the contemporary arts scene, giving new relevance to embroidery while exploring his Queer and Parsi-Indian identity.

Professor Jeremy Nicholson is the Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University and a leading researcher into Long Covid. His team is working with multiple universities around the world - including Harvard and Cambridge - to try and understand the long term cardiometabolic and other systemic effects of the disease, as well as the impact of Covid-19 in kids.

With her filmmaking Dame Jane Campion has often surprised - as she also did with comments at the recent Critics Choice Awards, for which she has apologised. And she surprises again with photos from her early years when she was the muse of photographer John Lethbridge.

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As the world wrestles with trying to end the Covid-19, professor David Hayman is on the hunt for our next pandemic foe. An infectious disease ecologist at Massey University, Hayman has travelled the globe looking at the spread of pathogens between wildlife and humans.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is accusing the current Australian government of creating a political vacuum in the Pacific region by neglecting their needs and concerns. Rudd recently released his new book The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China.

A recent study conducted at the University of Essex has examined the characteristics that can lead to someone being chalked up as 'boring'. Led by experimental social psychologist Dr Wijnand Van Tilburg, the study examined the occupations, hobbies, and personality traits that people ascribe to being stereotypically dull - such as watching television, being religious, or watching birds.

Most people would not have heard of Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian philosopher and geopolitical strategist who is sometimes referred to as Putin's brain.  Julian Walker is the co-host of the podcast Conspirituality, which recently dedicated an episode to Dugin and his ideologies.