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Tunui/comet
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- Book Synopsis
- Tunui Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Maori poets. Rolling easily between korero Maori and the canonical traditions of English-language poetry, through karakia and powhiri, treaty training and decolonisation wiki entries, Robert Sullivan takes readers on a marvellous poetic hikoi. Guided by Maui and Tawhirimatea, Moana Jackson and Freddie Mercury, we walk from K'Rd council flats to Kaka Point, finding ourselves and our ancestors along the way. We stand tall before we play the clock out past the reef toward Matariki. Clouds raise their fists as seagulls and sparrows swoon into the rainbow. It has been a long homecoming and he has made the pieces one.
- About The Author
- Robert Sullivan (Ngapuhi, Kai Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Hopurangi-Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (Auckland University Press, 2024), as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Maori legends for children. He has also co-edited anthologies of Maori and Polynesian poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa - Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781869409692
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press, (31 January 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 72
- Weight
- 143.33 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 225 x 170 x 7 mm
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