Katuivei – Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

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ISBN: 9781991016584
Title: Katuivei – Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: EGGLETON DAVID / RAPATAHANA VAUGHAN / TAITO MERE

A CELEBRATION OF AN EXCITING NEW THREAD IN THE LITERATURE OF AOTEAROA

To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation.This significant collection ranges from long-established voices such as Albert Wendt, Selina Tusitala Marsh and David Eggleton and the powerful newer voices of poets such as Tusiata Avia, Courtney Sina Meredith, Karlo Mila and Grace Iwashita-Taylor to new and emerging voices. Deep and rich, like Moana Oceania itself, it shows Pasifika poetry to be in a constant state of ‘old and new’, of haharagi and lelea’ mafua, a lively and evolving continuum.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11/04/2024
Pages: 328
Available stock: 1