Born Sacred
£13.46
Star Waka
£12.49
Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Sullivan’s third book of poems, Star Waka, came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka, or the ocean. Within these parameters, and in 2001 lines, Sullivan creates 100 poems that, he says, themselves function like a waka: ‘members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes – it is subject to the laws of nature’.
Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi 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 Māori legends for children. He has also co-edited anthologies of Māori and Polynesian poetry. He is 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781869402136
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Imprint
- Auckland University Press
- Publication date
- 1 March 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 104
- Dimensions
- 225 x 170 mm
- Language
- English
