Hopurangi | Song Catcher: Poems from the Maramataka

by Robert Sullivan

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After rejoining social media, Robert Sullivan wrote and posted a poem a day over two and a half months – the poems collected in Hopurangi—Songcatcher. Inspired by the cyclical energies of the Maramataka, these poems see the poet re-finding himself and his world – in the mātauranga of his kuia from the Ngāti Hau and Ngāti Kaharau hapū of Ngāpuhi; in his mother’s stories from his Ngāti Manu hapū at Kāretu; in the singing and storytelling at Puketeraki Marae, home of his father’s people of Kāti Huirapa, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha and Kāi Tahu Whānui in Te Tai o Āraiteuru; and in the fellowship of friends on Facebook.

Tīhei mauri ora!
  • ISBN13 9781776711222
  • Publish Date 9 May 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NZ
  • Imprint Auckland University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Language English