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Powerful peace, Robert Sullivan
Te Whiti o Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka Danny Keenan Huia, $45.00, ISBN 9781775501954 This account of the non-violent resistance movement founded by the prophets Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi at the Taranaki settlement of Parihaka begins…
Tagged with: Autumn 2017, Danny Keenan, Huia, Issue 117, Robert Sullivan
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Speaking in a new language, Anahera Gildea
Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan (eds) Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408176 To my nieces and nephews, Some of you speak English and some of you are bilingual but, either…
Tagged with: Anahera Gildea, Issue 115, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2016
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Posted in Literature, Poetry
Hymns, history and haemorrhoids, Janet Hughes
Three Regrets and a Hymn to Beauty Ian Wedde Auckland University Press, $22.00, ISBN 1869403495 Afternoon of an Evening Train Gregory O’Brien Victoria University Press, $21.99, ISBN 9864735014 Oooooo…..!!! Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts, $24.95, ISBN 1877338699 Footfall Brian Turner Godwit,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Turner, Godwit, Gregory O’Brien, Hone Tuwhare, Ian Wedde, Issue 71, Janet Hughes, Robert Sullivan, Spring 2005, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Indigenous voices, colonial language, Cilla McQueen
Whetu Moana – Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English ed Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $49.95, ISBN 1869402731 Captain Cook in the Underworld Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $21.95, ISBN 1869402812 “Before had England even…
Tagged with: Albert Wendt, Auckland University Press, Cilla McQueen, Issue 60, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, Summer 2002
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poem – Robert Sullivan
South Point, Hawai‘i On the Big Island, where the ocean voyaging waka left for Tahiti, perhaps Aotearoa, we watched the mooring stones: smoothed by water, smoothed by hands, carved out to moor the waka. We felt the spirits soar…
Following the stars, James Ritchie
Star Waka Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 1 86940 213 8 Robert Sullivan is himself a star by whose directions we may sail with some certainty. His work has already established him as a writer of skill and…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 40, James Ritchie, Robert Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Engaging all the senses, Robert Sullivan
Shape-Shifter Hone Tuwhare Steele Roberts $29.95 ISBN 0 9583712 1 0 In Hone Tuwhare’s work all senses are engaged – tasting, sniffing, visualising, touching and hearing the world of the poem – each poem generates atmosphere through the powerhouse of…
Tagged with: Hone Tuwhare, Issue 33, Robert Sullivan, Steele Roberts
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Poetic Grammars, Mary Paul
How to Talk Andrew Johnston, Victoria University Press, $19.95 Piki Ake! Robert Sullivan, Auckland University Press, $19.95 I was given these two books to review with the instruction that I should look at them in the wider context of…
Tagged with: Andrew Johnston, Auckland University Press, Issue 9, Mary Paul, Robert Sullivan, Victoria University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Recent New Zealand Poetry, Charles Croot:
Cabin Fever Anne French Auckland University Press, 1990, $15.95 Park Island Leonard Lambert John McIndoe, Dunedin, 1990, $18.95 Jazz Waists Robert Sullivan Auckland University Press, 1990, $16.95 Man with a Child’s Violin Gregory O’Brien Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1990, $14.55 What’s…
Tagged with: Anne French, Auckland University Press, Autumn 1991, Caxton Press, Charles Croot, Gregory O’Brien, Issue 1, John McIndoe, Leonard Lambert, Robert Sullivan
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
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