Star Waka
Poems by Robert Sullivan
Published on 1. November 2013
121 pages
978-1-77558-159-8 (ISBN)
Description
Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Maori poet Robert Sullivan's third book of poems, Star Waka, explores themes of journeying and navigation, moving back and forth in time and focus to confront colonisation, contemporary political issues and personal questions of family and identity. It came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka (canoe) 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'.
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01/1999
Auckland University Press
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Robert Sullivan is the author of a number of books of poetry, a graphic novel, and a prize-winning book of Maori legends for children. He co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English Whetu Moana and Mauri Ola. In 1998 he was the Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland and in 2001 he was the Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai'i Manoa, where he taught creative writing for some years. He now teaches creative writing at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Content
- Cover
- Also by Robert Sullivan
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note
- He karakia timatanga
- i
- ii
- iii: About some of the crew
- iv: 2140AD
- v: Honda Waka
- vi: Feelings
- vii: Reconnaissance
- viii: No
- ix
- x: Goldie (1)
- xi
- xii: Independence Day
- xiii: Rough Cuts
- xiv: Ka huri ahau ki te reo o te ao pouri
- xv: Sullivan Whanau
- Waka 16 Kua wheturangitia koe
- xvii: Some definitions and a note on orthography
- xviii: Similitude
- xix
- xx: a whakapapa construction
- xxi: Te ao marama I
- xxii: Te ao marama II
- xxiii: Formats (1)
- xxiv: Formats (2)
- xxv: power/powerlessness
- xxvi
- xxvii
- xxviii: Hooked
- Waka 29 waka taua
- xxx
- xxxi
- xxxii: herenga waka
- xxxiii
- xxxiv: Goldie (2)
- xxxv
- xxxvi
- 37
- 38 fleurs de lis
- 39 A wave
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48 (Bright 1)
- 49 (environment 1)
- 50
- 51
- 52
- 53
- 54 waka rorohiko
- 55 Araiteuru
- Waka 56 A Double-Hulled Waka
- Waka 57 El Nino Waka
- Waka 58 Waitangi Day
- Waka 59 Elsdon Best
- Waka 60 Dead Reckoning
- Waka 61 Fragment
- Waka 62 A narrator's note
- Waka 63 Venus
- Waka 64
- Waka 65
- Waka 66 Hokule'a
- Waka 67 from We the Navigators
- Waka 68
- Waka 69 Kupe
- Waka 70
- Waka 71
- Waka 72 Hawaikinui's 1985 journey
- Waka 73 Gone fishing
- Waka 74 Sea anchor
- Waka 75 A storm
- Waka 76
- Waka 77
- Waka 78 An historical line
- Waka 79
- Waka 80
- Waka 81 A cup of tea
- Waka 82 Te ao marama III
- Waka 83
- Waka 84
- Waka 85
- Waka 86
- Waka 87
- Waka 88
- Waka 89
- Waka 90 Te ao marama IV
- Waka 91 A Feast
- Waka 92
- Waka 93
- Waka 94
- Waka 95
- Waka 96
- Waka 97
- Waka 98
- Waka 99
- Waka 100
