Solo the Yearbook is essential reading

the Yearbook is essential reading for all poetry fans

the book is alive with endless reminders of how things used to be – the feeling and smell (to choose a random example) of wet woollen bathing suits with modesty flaps in front

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’ — Max Oettli

valuable revenue and jobs are lost because we don’t champion the great food we do produce

Solo the Yearbook is essential readingTales of ambition, risk and death in New Zealands backcountry One afternoon in Auckland, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full time job. As she ranged from Arthurs Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to the Ruahine Range and Fiordland, she had her share of danger and loneliness, but