Publication

1990 - Auckland University Press, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

Language

English

Word Count

13,000 words, Guess

Page Count

52 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101869400526
  • ISBN-139781869400521
  • Library of Congress Control Number92177790
  • Open LibraryOL1308731M

Classifications

  • LCCMLCS 93/13208 (P)

Description

"Of Nga Puhi and Irish descent, Robert Sullivan wrote these poems in his kainga in the Bay of Islands and at home in Onehunga. The first group of poems seem to explode straight out of contemporary Auckland, rapping, rocking, teasing, skiting. It's ... making wry comments on daly life in late 20th-century Aotearoa. The concluding sequence, 'Tai Tokerau poems' (for Sir James Henare) is quieter, more sombre..."--Back cover.

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