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eng mao comet
Robert Sullivan.
Comet
71 pages.
Contents: Tētahi Waerea (Prayer of Protection) -- Māui's Mission -- Hello Great North Road -- Kawe Reo / Voices Carry -- Decolonisation Wiki Entries -- A.O.U. -- Feathers -- Kōwhai -- Ah -- Cooking with Gas -- Reading List -- I wasn't a poet for writing placenames -- Old Government House -- pome -- Our Pōwhiri for the International Students -- The Declaration of Independence -- He Wakaputanga -- Sunday -- A little -- Petal -- Dream -- Ruia -- Untitled -- He Toa Takitini -- Te Whitianga a Kupe -- Homage to Alistair -- Homage to Te Whatanui -- Decolonising the Coastline -- Rock Art -- Conservation -- Steam -- Te Tāhuhu Nui -- Ka Ruku -- Karakia Whakakapi -- Comet.
Summary: 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. (Publisher)
Poems chiefly written in English, with some in Te reo Māori.