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Beautiful artwork

2/12/2021

What Colour Is The Sky?
by Laura Shallcrass

If I was expecting vibrant shades of blue and white, or pink and apricot, even purple, I was wrong.
The artwork is beautiful – bold and delicate – yes, definitely beautiful. But while the artwork is most pleasing, I am left confused.
So, to look at this book as a whole, it’s most attractive with its hard cover. But appealing to what age group? The writing is simple, the plot or intention perhaps not entirely suiting the simplicity of the writing.
We get to hedgehog, and I searched hard for what I expected the NZ hedgehog to look like. Is he the creature with the big ears and fluffy fur loosely curled beneath the branches of a tree? My expectation was of a spiny animal with almost unnoticeable ears, a white chin ruff, tightly curled into a ball.
Back to the sky colour. To me, it is sombre, muddy shades of blue-ish green. Again, the artwork is beautiful, and the clouds delightful.
So, for Ruru the sky is deepest blue - because it is night time and he is generally around at night time? This is clarified in the interesting Learning Notes at the end of the book, but perhaps could have been explained earlier. These notes are of interest particularly for me as I had no idea about the way each animal interprets colour and why.
But for a younger reader? This brings me back to the targeted audience.
When I asked a group what colour the sky was their replies were immediate and identical. Blue.

Review by Susan Tarr

Title: What Colour is the Sky?
Author: Laura Shallcrass
Publisher: Beatnik Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9951423-3-6
RRP: $30
Available: bookshops

Eye opener as to historical facts

25/11/2021

The Road to the Future,
An Electric Pioneer and his Magnificent Battery Cars
by Viv Walker

The storytelling in this picture book is completely in tune with the artwork, as it’s done by the same person. It is clear from the start that there is a personal connection here as Viv Walker knows her subject matter well.
And it’s not often that we see a child’s picture book embracing history as this one does.
The storytelling is in line with the era as depicted in a few old fashioned expressions i.e. a bolt of fancy cloth, or omnibuses.
But I was completely unaware of this remarkable historic fact that electric battery powered cars were first introduced to NZ as long ago as 1918.
The first petrol engine cars were the two imported from France earlier in 1898. And you can almost smell the petrol fumes of the exciting new horseless carriages within these pages.
So twenty years later the newest on the block are the cars, trucks and buses, all electric and running on batteries. Compared to the noise of the petrol driven vehicles, they were quiet, thanks to Thomas Edison and his cell batteries.
They were welcomed as electric battery cars and the future of our transport. No roar, no clatter and no fumes.
Reading this book with the historic information interspersed throughout has been an eye opener for me, and I was happily surprised to find the after information and photographs gleaned from historic references.
Yet by the time I finished reading this interesting story, and appreciated the detailed artwork, I was still unsure as to what the targeted readership would be. I have a grandson who is 8 years old, but somehow I don’t think this book suitable for him, even though he’s an avid reader.

Review by Susan Tarr

Title: The Road to the Future, An Electric Pioneer and his Magnificent Battery Cars
Author: Viv Walker
Publisher: Swirld Books
ISBN: 978-0-473-55390-6
RRP: $22.99
Available: Soft cover with flaps, 36 pp, via distributor Nationwide Books

Novel with added depth

18/11/2021

The Seekers’ Garden
by Isa Pearl Ritchie

I like a book with short chapters of just a few pages each – it makes for easy reading, especially when time for this is grabbed in snatches.
When the episodes follow several characters in turn, however, it can be difficult for each to become established and remain in the mind between reading sessions.
Fifty pages into this book, and not seeming to get to grips with them, I went back to the beginning and made myself brief notes about each of the five people who are the subjects of the 99 short chapters. It helped me follow the various stories as they occur.
Marcia, 55, recent widow – lived in London, returns to her old home in Hamilton.
Iris, 40s, has teenage son Alex. Quit her job in Wellington, rents house in Raglan.
Zane, a musician and songwriter – Kiwi who has not returned to NZ in years.
Lea, 16, deeply dissatisfied about her family and her place in it.
Mrs Everglade, elderly, has travelled in the past, now settled in her Hamilton home.
Each of them became fleshed out as I worked through the episodes.
Marcia, with her counselling training and interest in alternative therapies and tarot, decides to teach courses. “Energy centres have been depicted in so many different ways: as symbols, as patterns, as flowers. I imagine them in the colours of the rainbow…”
There she meets Iris who is writing a book. “It was almost like I was typing words that were already written in the blueprint of my life like I was following a plan I couldn't even see.” She doesn’t resist any urge to share her philosophies throughout in preachy fashion and I find myself hoping she never finishes that book.
Zane too is undergoing a period of self-reflection of the middle-aged. “When Zane performed, he felt like he could feel the pulse of the world…this was the closest thing to religion Zane had ever believed in, and in concert, he was the messiah.” He expresses himself in the words of his songs.
Lea, so full of teenage angst, so devoid of confidence, chooses to smoke, “provoking equal parts of revulsion and pleasure. Just like self-pity, just like any self-destructive indulgence. The part she liked the most was the damage she knew she was doing to her lungs, to her future.” She pours out her angst in lengthy and inscrutable poetry, though it is no doubt meaningful to herself. I hope she grows up some day.
There are secrets that link the four main characters. I’m not sure why Mrs Everglade is included – the book would work just as well without her.
Marcia leads her class – “Take a deep breath. Exhale and go deeper into awareness. Focus on the area around your navel.” She and Iris keep on over-analysing situations. It is a teenage friend who tells Lea, “Life is full of pain and every other emotion. That’s what makes it interesting and sad and beautiful.” Zane, in an interview, finds he is “the commentator in some bizarre documentary on human behaviour.” Between the four there’s a lot of navel-gazing.
It is the revealing of the secrets that link them that pulls the book together and is finally rewarding to the reader.
There are quite a few points throughout the book that I would question with the editor but, overall, The Seekers’ Garden will provide a satisfying read to those who favour novels with added depth.

Review by Norma D. Plum

Title: The Seekers’ Garden
Author: Isa Pearl Ritchie
Publisher: Te Rā Aroha Press
ISBN: 9780473583323
RRP: $37.99
Available: bookshops

Refreshing take from a poet

11/11/2021

ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes
by Vaughan Rapatahana

Vaughan Rapatahana’s latest book titled ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes, is a refreshing take from a poet. His vivid thoughts, memories and opinions create an opening into his mind. Unlike many poets whose extravagant words often guard the true feelings of a poet.
Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) writes in multiple genres – chiefly poetry, criticism and commentaries – in both his main languages, te reo Māori and English. He graduated with a PhD (on Colin Wilson) from the University of Auckland and has published several poetry collections both here and overseas.
Vaughan’s latest collection ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes appeared in 2019. It is a sequence of six parts that go deep into human experience, draw upon multiple languages and exhilarating linguistic effects. You move with the sky, rain, trees, from home to home, from the Christchurch attacks to collecting driftwood, to a Waitangi dawn.
  ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes is divided into five sections:
First section, ‘ngā wāhi / places’
Second section, ‘ngā whanaungatanga / relationships’
Third section, ‘te ao tūroa / nature’
Fourth section, ‘ngā tõrangapū rāua ko nga rapunga whakaaro / politics and philosophy
Fifth section, ngā toikupu / poetry
Sixth section, te raro / the underground
Through these sections, Vaughan expresses his feelings, emotions and opinions through poetry.
I enjoyed this poem: (first stanza)
Ko Aotearoa te ingoa o tēnei whenua ātaahua.
land of the long white cloud for many
nestling in a sea of verdant green,
surrounded by a brilliant blue ocean
& where the All Blacks reign.
   This poem, titled Sometimes, made me smile, as it is very relatable…
      sometimes
writing a poem
is like
driving a bus
underwater…
Vaughan won the inaugural Proverse Poetry Prize in 2016, the same year as his Atonement was nominated for a National Book Award in Philippines. He is also represented in New Zealand’s Best Poems of 2017.
Lovers of poetry and people interested in New Zealand life will enjoy this book, especially home-sick Kiwis living overseas. It is a must for every library in New Zealand.
I enjoyed reading Vaughan’s poetry. It was refreshing, seeing the world through his unique eyes. Thank you for sharing your poetry with us.

Review by Renee Hollis

Title: ngā whakamatuatanga / interludes
Author: Vaughan Rapatahana
Publisher: Cyberwit.net, Allahabad, India
ISBN: 978-93-89074-41-3
RRP: $15
Available: from www.cyberwit.net, or from the author rapatahana@xtra.co.nz

Succinct flash fiction, enthralling short stories.

3/11/2021

The Pink Jumpsuit –
short fictions, tall truths
by Emma Neale

A collection of short stories needn’t necessarily be woven together with a theme and in fact The Pink Jumpsuit and the other 27 tales in this book range far and wide. There are threads of weirdness, mutation, tragedy and grit in the face of adversity, but tenderness, hope and humour are there too and on every page, regardless of the story, Neale’s prose sparkles.
“She wanted to fold herself up as small as a love note, ignite and burn away.”
“It hurts to imagine my husband as that broom-thin boy, hair gleaming black as a preacher’s shoes…”
“… it was seduction by punctuation. As if each semi-colon was someone leaning forward, head bubbling with the future…”
“He laughed, and her body cascaded with unbidden sweetness.”
Neale has, to international acclaim, mastered flash fiction, proving that by making every word count, a story can be barely a dozen lines but no less impactful than the longer pieces. This varying of story length, with longer ones interspersed with short and very short ones, adds to the pleasure of dipping into this book: there are delicious bite-sized reads alongside more absorbing ones.
With many of the stories exploring relationships, family dynamics, the past dragged up into the present… the endings can’t always be happy.
How does it feel to fall in love with someone who turns out to be half-sibling?
How creative can a jilted bride be with her discarded wedding dress?
Could two fingers really grow from the scar of an amputated one?
What can possibly go wrong at a 9-year-old’s birthday party?
Why would you carry your handbag in a cat cage? A leopard skin handbag!
Without giving too much away, the answers to these questions are just five of the 28 cleverly told stories in this collection. Each one is proof of Emma Neale’s well-deserved standing as an award-winning author. And each one makes The Pink Jumpsuit – short fictions, tall truths an enjoyable and enthralling read.

Review by Carolyn McKenzie

Title: The Pink Jumpsuit
Author: Emma Neale
Publisher: Quentin Wilson Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9951329-9-3
RRP: $35
Available: paper: bookshops

Home owner’s earthquake account

26/10/2021

You Can’t Rush an Earthquake
Repair, Rebuild, Repeat
by Brenda Greene

2010 was a year not to be forgotten in New Zealand History. My husband and I walked into New Zealand house in London to hear there had been an earthquake in Christchurch. My first reaction was – well, we are not called the Shaky Isles for nothing.
Little did we know at the time how large and how devastating that earthquake was, and how it and the ones to follow would change the lives, the landscape and the people of Christchurch and Canterbury for years to come.
“You Can’t Rush an Earthquake” is written by Brenda Greene, owner of a character home that was close to the epicentre of the 7.1 magnitude quake that hit Christchurch and those that continued to cause damage for months on end. The book documents the owners’ attempts over the next 11 years to have their home rebuilt to the condition that was laid down in their insurance policy. The process became a saga of mistakes, poor planning, rebuilding the rebuild, delays and changing insurance building and council policies.
Throughout those years the Author, with her learned knowledge and a desire to have her home restored, dealt with at least 7 project managers, builders, electricians, plumbers, building inspectors. loss adjusters, quantity surveyors, architects, insurance companies and the Insurance Ombudsman to mention just a few, as she fought to have her policy rights enforced. The meetings were documented, as were the phone calls, reports, and photographs.
Eventually the home repairs the Author and her family were entitled to were completed – but after what a journey! The reader will find it would give a lesser person a headache, equivalent to the original earthquake, to embark on such a rebuild, and to win.
The book describes in detail the effect of being in an earthquake of such magnitude as the later major shake on 22nd February 2011, and those following. She describes the seismic boom, the bulging floors, the feeling of floating and falling, being tossed from one wall to another and the physical effects to her body as she processes her reaction to what was happening. These were so descriptive I felt I was in the kitchen with her.
Throughout the narrative there are respites from the earthquake damage as she describes family events, trips away to the solitude and calmness of national parks as she and her family documented the returning birdlife after trapping pests. These sojourns were a welcome time of rest and recovery.
The book with its many photographs is a tribute to the tenacity of the author and to the thousands of displaced, broken and traumatised people of Christchurch.
It is a great read.

Review by Merilyn Mary

Title: You Can’t Rush an Earthquake. Repair, Rebuild, Repeat
Author: Brenda Greene
Publisher: Brenda Greene
ISBN: 978-0-473-58005-6
RRP: $49.99
Available: Scorpio Books 120 Hereford St, Christchurch 8011
Writers Plot Readers Read, 893 Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt 5018

Future classroom classic

19/10/2021

Hine and the Tohunga Portal
by Ataria Sharman

Author Ataria Sharman says Māori lore of ancient Aotearoa captivated her as she was writing the book, allowing her imagination to run wild.
“Sometimes, I'll be out in my garden and I'll imagine the patupaiarehe, the fairy people are there, and I mean I can't actually see them but it just feels magical to just imagine they're there.”
Sharman is a writer, editor, social entrepreneur and researcher who advocates for wāhine Māori and has recently published a new book for young readers.
'Hine and the Tohunga Portal' is a fast-paced fantasy adventure. Hine and her brother, Hōhepa, unwittingly step through a portal into an ancient realm inhabited by the atua Māori (Māori deities), Kea bird tribes, patupaiarehe (fairy people), moa and giant eagles. This world is in turmoil as evil sorcerer Kae has built a cursed army and intends to rule this world and everything in it. He sees the opportunity to dominate the modern world as well, by kidnapping Hōhepa and using his life force to reopen the portal between the worlds. This sets Hine on a quest to learn ancient knowledge from the goddesses Hineteiwaiwa and Mahuika and her ancestors, find the medicine to revoke the curse on the warriors and gain the support of the Kea and patupaiarehe to fight Kae and rescue Hōhepa.
The weaving of Māori iconography and beautifully incorporated reo is impressive. I found the use of te reo and concepts of manaakitanga useful in extending my knowledge. I would recommend this book be bought for school libraries and for teachers interested in furthering children’s knowledge of te reo. I would read it to a class and have a list of Māori words they can use to look up the meaning. It was what l did when l read the book.
Multiple narratives take the reader between the two main characters of Hine and Hōhepa as they traverse this magical environment separately.
'Hine and the Tohunga Portal' would make a superb Read Aloud for Year 6 students and up, with all the topics that could turn into their own studies – NZ flora and fauna, extinct native birds, Māori legends, traditional Māori foods, and even the Treaty of Waitangi. It is easy to see this becoming a classroom classic in the near future.
This land’s forests are full of the patupaiarehe – brave and fierce fairy warriors when their forest home and animals are threatened. There are kea armies, serious about their lands and any trespassers who dare enter into it. Animals too are drawn up into the battle between good and evil.
Sharman feels that her editorial work helped her to become a better writer, and she hopes that ‘Hine and the Tohunga Portal’ will ultimately become a seven-book series to inspire rangatahi, similar to Harry Potter.

Review by Renee Hollis

Title: Hine and the Tohunga Portal
Author: Ataria Sharman
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 9781775506348
RRP: $25
Available: paper: bookshops

Refreshingly original novel

12/10/2021

[Lure the lie]
by Cat Connor

At one point towards the end of this novel, one of the main protagonists describes its setting as ‘sleepy Upper Hutt’. And indeed, Upper Hutt can be said to be an essential part of the plot. Its streets, its pubs, its brewery, its restaurants, its retail outlets (particularly a bookshop) and many other actual establishments become minor features and give the story a remarkable authenticity.
Most of the major protagonists in the novel are, however, anything but ordinary people going about their ordinary lives. This is a story of mystery and intrigue, of international spies, of a behind-the-scenes world of personal danger and even of threats to humanity’s existence. It involves a panoply of characters including foreign mercenaries, an Australian bikie gang, home-bred thugs, a small group of elderly women in a Rest Home (who are given the name ‘The Cronies of Doom’), a greyhound called Romeo and a number of individuals whose motives are muddied, to say the least, and who learn to trust or mistrust each other as the plot moves along.
Technology is another element that plays a huge part in the plot. This reviewer, being something of a technophobe, found much of it surprising, and more than a little scary. But these are the tools of the spies and missing-people hunters that provide the essential story. They are multi-faceted, these central characters. In some cases they are also apt to have more than one name. There are a number of significant players, but Ronnie (Veronica) and Crockett (Crocker) drive the plot along as they search for answers to the disappearance of a woman whose identity and loyalties are not clear. It all (or mostly!) does become clear in the end, but to give more away would spoil the story.
There are also welcome elements of humour throughout the book, and of romance. The dialogue is mostly snappy, though at times it is required perhaps to carry rather too much of the plot. The reader does get to know the key characters well, though, through their interactions. But the reader should also be aware that any assumptions they make as to whether or not a particular character is on the side of the angels may well prove incorrect as the plot unfolds.
It requires close attention to follow the plot’s twists and turns, but such close consideration is worth the effort. Could ‘sleepy Upper Hutt’ really be the nursery for such nefarious goings-on? If so, then any other corner of the country could be the same. Not only is this a thrilling story of modern-day spies and their methods, it is a reminder that like it or not, New Zealand is part of the international world in which they operate.
This is a refreshingly original novel, and a cracking good read.

Review by Tony Chapelle

Title: [Lure the lie]
Author: Cat Connor
Publisher: 9mm Press
ISBN: Print: 978-0-473-57154-2. ePub: 978-0-473-57155-9. Mobi: 978-0-463-57156-6
RRP: paperback $33.00; ePub and Mobi: $3.37
Available: paper: Universal Purchase Link: books2read.com/lurethelie
Paperback: Amazon and www.writersplot.org.nz

Novel is a gripping read

27/9/2021

Cold Wallet
by Rosy Fenwicke

This book is a gripping read, the plot twists and story bends were sufficient to capture me, making it hard to put down.
Jess is a New Zealand doctor working in Auckland Hospital and just finishing her specialist qualification, when she marries her crypto-currency expert fiancé, Andrew, and goes on honeymoon with him to one of the world’s most exclusive resorts in the Yasawa group of Fiji.
Andrew is taken ill while there and after some quite graphic illness scenes, he dies, is cremated and Jess brings the ashes back to New Zealand. She learns that Andrew has left his company, Vaultange to her, cutting out his partner and closest friend, Henry.
Jess attempts to open Andrew’s laptop, but succeeds only to introduce malware onto the computer, rendering it useless. This is the real thrust of the story, as the password required to unlock the Vaultange cold wallet is now useless.
Vaultange is not a storage for currency, but an exchange so that people wanting to buy or sell Bitcoin or other currency, can do so for a small commission. There is no check on who the users are, no banks or police are involved and the transactions are heavily encrypted. Inevitably, criminal elements become involved, as well as the public who know that they have bitcoin held in the transactions stored on Vaultange and now want to access their funds. After complaints, the police are involved, and everyone suspects that Jess knows the key, but is planning to keep it all for herself. So now she has police, criminals, and users pressuring her to unlock the Cold Wallet.
There are revelations about Jess’s past, and her relationship with the hospital where she works.
The book shows how these issues are resolved, but there are many sub plots and unexpected turns to the story, that you will need to read for yourself. Just read carefully as clues are there cleverly planted by the author.
This book is a sophisticated and engaging story, that I can recommend fully. The book is set in Auckland, but could be any modern city. The final chapters move very fast and have an unexpected ending.
There are some issues I had with the book. Jess has a hangover and grabs several aspirin tablets for her headache. I find it difficult that a New Zealand trained doctor would ever take aspirin in such circumstances, all would take paracetamol.
Another issue is that the story is told from multiple characters’ points of view, and often it was not obvious who was speaking, so I had to go back to try to find clues to the narrator’s identity. This could easily be overcome by simply starting a section with the name of the narrator.
Overall a really good read.

Review by Harold Bernard

Title: Cold Wallet
Author: Rosy Fenwicke
Publisher: Wonderful World
ISBN: 978-0-473-55940-3
RRP: $36.50
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Three poets, three distinctive voices

16/9/2021

AUP New Poets 8
by Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha, Modi Deng.
Anna Jackson (Ed)

This is the latest compilation in a series, which provide a good foundation for Aotearoa New Zealand poets to – all going well – have their own collections published later.
From my experiencing this compilation, the only thing the three poets have in common is that all are young, articulate, and intelligent women, as witnessed in their toikupu here. Which, however, is divergent even in their individual pieces, as well as among the three poets. Holloway and Paraha in particular, can be classified as experimental poets in the way that much of the former and all the latter’s work is a faaaaaaaaaaaar cry from ‘traditional’ verse/stanza layout, while Deng also displays a measure of innovation with her prose poems and in tabulated work like lessons.
What I noticed about the ambience of Holloway’s mahi – titled a child in that alcove – is that there is a consistent mood of dark thoughts, depression, self-effacement, which is more manifest than latent. Take for example these lines from as the tide (p. 9), where ‘I’ has become ‘i’,
i look out to that expanse,
      bare now to the beaks of grey herons,
      which i realise is me
      in this metaphor
Elsewhere, as her/their poems develop across the pages of the anthology towards found poetry and  w i d e  o p e n  spaces, Holloway casts herself with lines such as,
The quietest panic attack happens when my heart is a small dog (from stocktaking during venlaxafine discontinuation p. 13)
      And,
      I am a dog so it doesn’t matter much    (from Is any of this relevant? p. 17)
There is a consistent inner turmoil and torment here, as the poet eerily unravels herself in poems with revealing titles such as you are my night terror i hope i am yours (p. 12) and moirai (pp. 23-26).
Images return again (the title of a poem on page 11) here and there too, in a sort of Plathean frenzy, among them a Four Square carpark and supermarkets, as the poems as presented in this book deconstruct and yet reconstruct in a whole new way/Holloway.
In her introduction, editor, Anna Jackson writes about the work of Paraha, ‘These poems are not easily read for narrative or scene-setting and it would be possible to feel a little lost, as a reader’. Āe, tika tēnei kōrero. There are no titles. There are few if any verses. Words and letters throw themselves across and around a page, spill in a
s  p  r  e  a  d  e a  g  l  e  d  manner in two interspersed tongues, te reo Māori rāua ko te reo Ingarihi.
Paraha is deliberate in this depiction of our cosmos. It is a massive never-ending, perhaps never-able-to-end and ongoing process, paradoxically full of lacunae. Her work is a set of paintings to be perceived and experienced on a screen, on a wall, as a video behind a melee of dancers. Paraha is sui generis, hers a whole new poetry planetarium. She is enmeshed in Te Kore, va, ki tua (beyond) as splayed over pages 49-51, in a complete dismantling of language, of the inherent straight-line concept(s) we generally associate with any given word. My pātai becomes, when watching this star trek, ‘where does the end begin?’  in my darkling universe, the artist cannot reply, as no one can. Rather, she flirts here and there with possible cogent universe ‘meaning’ as with the words made up from highlighted letters torrented down a page – ‘hone’ and ‘alistair’ – while having fun inhabiting te hinengaro me te tinana of a cannibal in wheniwasacannibal with compressed lines like,
iwaswaitedonhandandfootsotospeak. (p. 71).
This cosmic stuff does not/cannot suit a book. I look forward to witnessing Paraha at work/play across other media.
Modi Deng returns the reader (nearly) to planet earth with her structured verse, her less abrasive, comforting words – an wei. Witness this poem with the same title, here in its entirety,
When light pooled in,
  the camber of your palm
   and your quiet laugh dipped a reprieve, a catching net,
   fullness to cheek hollow –
   I couldn’t help it. Your candour was
   embodied/your words fading/
   our rhythm softly a morning moon.    (p. 81).
In the 17 poems included here, Deng writes about (mis)communication with her mother, love affair(s). music, the UK, where she is a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music. Hers is a gentler cadence, rather an innocence surrounding,
      …my
      soft (read weak) heart      (from lightning courses (p. 92).
The standout piece for me is Euston Road, where the poet systematically relates her medical event, and the aftermath,
      leaving behind the paranoid clinical
  attendants, all the pear-nurses and
      the requisite burnt soya coffee     (p. 95).
Three poets, three distinctive voices sampling on a wide – perhaps endless - continuum of topoi and technique. After all, ‘There is no end to possible meanings’ (from Holloway’s Is any of this relevant? pp. 17-19).
     Tēnā koe mō tēnei raupapatanga.

Review by Vaughan Rapatahana

Title: AUP New Poets 8
Author: Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha, Modi Deng. Anna Jackson (Ed)
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 9781869409456
RRP: $29.99
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