Adrienne Jansen: 4 books

A grand piano crashes off a crane that’s lifting it into a block of council flats. Stefan, piano restorer and illegal immigrant, has the impossible task of trying to rebuild it. His future depends on it. And – for better or worse – a misfit bunch of tenants decides to help him. Adrienne...

In All of Us, Adrienne Jansen and carina gallegos use poems and short prose to weave together the vibrant, expansive, and sometimes heart-wrenching stories of immigrants and people from refugee background in New Zealand today. Drawing on their time spent with immigrant and refugee communities,...

Marko has come to the ends of the earth to escape a once illustrious past in Bulgaria. So why does a Polish bookstore owner call him a traitor? And who covertly photographed him for the newspaper? Someone knows who he is. They are trying to expose him in his new country, and there is nothing...

Families, language, fear, loss, food and the victories that can come slowly. These are at the heart of this collection of poems by 46 writers who have come to New Zealand as migrants or refugees. More of Us provides a glimpse into the experiences of this diverse group of people, which includes...