Tunui | Comet
$16.89
- Paperback
72 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2022
Summary
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 wikis, 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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781869409692 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1869409698 |
| Author: | Robert Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press |
| Imprint: | Auckland University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 170mm x 6mm |
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Critics Review
‘Tunui | Comet displays all the elegance, eloquence and craft one would expect from this Maori writer, who is one of the outstanding poets of his generation. This is a distinctive and rich collection about unity and location, using the compass of poetry to celebrate our archipelago of islands. Robert Sullivan has deftly fused the classicism of the European tradition with Maori animism and a new world wonder, even as he defamiliarises the ordinary.’ (David Eggleton)
About The Author
Robert Sullivan
Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka. He has also written a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Māori legends for children. He has co-edited anthologies of Māori and Polynesian poetry.
He is an associate professor of creative writing at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
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