Born Sacred
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Tūnui | Comet
£12.49
Tūnui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Māori poets. Rolling easily between kōrero Māori and the canonical traditions of English-language poetry, through karakia and pōwhiri, treaty training and decolonisation wiki entries, Robert Sullivan takes readers on a marvellous poetic hīkoi.
Guided by Māui and Tāwhirimātea, 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.
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
- 9781869409692
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Imprint
- Auckland University Press
- Publication date
- 7 April 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 72
- Dimensions
- 225 x 170 mm
- Language
- English
