Midnight Plane, The Phillip and itinerant worker William Leckie

and itinerant worker William Leckie with his young daughter Mary

Tortoise harkens back to the popular acrylic blend from the 30s and 40s

legendary visual artist Stanley Donwood

Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia

And it will play a critical role in overcoming the challenges of the twenty-first century

Midnight Plane, The Phillip and itinerant worker William LeckieIn The Midnight Plane, Dame Fiona Kidman, one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished writers, returns to her first and deepest literary love, poetry. This beautifully curated volume opens with selected work from Kidman's six previous collections, chronologically ordered, and concludes in the present day with a body of exciting new poems. The Midnight Plane comes in to land exactly half a century after the 1975 publication of Kidman's debut book,