Mauri ola
Subtitle: contemporary Polynesian poems in English
By: edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan
Series: Whetu moana -- II; Whetū moana -- 2.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781869407230; 9781869404482
Subjects: Polynesian poetry (English); FICTION; Poetry; Pacific Island poetry; General
Description: Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians. The new book includes poetry written over the last 25 years by more than 80 writers from Aotearoa, Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti and Rotuma? some living in these islands and some dispersed around the globe. Together with works by established and celebrated poets, the editors have introduced the fresh voices of a younger generation. The anthology includes selections from po.
Notes: Title from resource description page (viewed August 18, 2014).

Poems.

Includes glossary.

Includes indexes.

Includes poetry written over the last 25 years by over 70 writers from Aotearoa, Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tahiti and Rotuma, and from Polynesian poets scattered around the world.

This edition in English.
Table of contents: title: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Hālāwai; Between Bells; Endings; Alohi Ae'a; A Measure of Manukau; Vinepa Aiono; Once, a long time ago; I Am Stupid; Upon Hearing the News that My Friend Has Terminal Cancer; Kimo Armitage; Fresh from the Islands; Pa'u-stina; Wild Dogs Under My Skirt; Nafanua explains her pedigree; Nafanua talks about her tupu'aga o le āiga; Tusiata Avia; Last Born; Still; Sound Check; Hinemoana Baker; For the Wonders of the Universe; Zen; Joe Balaz; How Things Change; Found Again; Nautilus Woman; Serie Barford; Nasalia.; title: Vu ni yaloValerie Bichard; Conversation With A Ghost 1974-1985; To A Sensitive Person; Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank; Wild Daisies; The Swans; At the Conference; Bub Bridger; the reincarnated mm: a cross cultural exchange between the big island taxi drivers and the young girl a expert visiting sāmoa for the south pacific games; Audrey Brown-Pereira; The Beach; Leilani Burgoyne; Muriwai; Te Tiriti O Waitangi (Oh, The Treaty); Tania Butcher; 28 (Māori) Battalion: LVII and LXV; Cages for the Wind: XI Warning to Children; Cook Islands Rhapsodies: I, IX and XI; Alistair Te Ariki Campbell.; title: Our tīpuna remainLetter to a friend; Hīkoi Poem; Thoughts on what's happening on Waiheke Island; Jacqueline Carter; As good as it gets; iMāori; Sam Cruickshank; Makua; The Archbishop; Spaces; Chelsea Mana'olana Duarte; Steve Irwin Way; Brightness; Takapuna Beach; David Eggleton; After reading Jonathan Waterman; First Landing; Rivers Without Eels; A Special Expedition; Conversation with a moahunter; Rangi Faith; Ginger roots; Forehead to forehead; Joe Kalepo Fanua; Car commercials; Dawn approaching I think of a friend; The daffodils; title: from a native's perspective; Sia Figiel; The Broken Pounder.; title: The VisitorKai Gaspar; Saturday; Marewa Glover; Tango; Michael Greig; Māori Land Protest March; Waiata Tangi; Tame Iti; Rore Hapipi; How She Knows She is Māori: a checklist; Kina; Aroha Harris; Tatz; Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui; Ē Laka Ē; Make Rope; A Letter to My Brother; School Street Bridge; Kaho'olawe; Imaikalani Kalahele; Adrift; Evolution; How to Train Your Labourer; Urupā; Phil Kawana; Quilt Poem; David Keali'i; Recess; Kealoha; Alapati; Nina Kirifi-Alai; The Market; Ann Marie Nālani Kirk; For Tasi (Dotsy); Olo; Victoria Kneubuhl; Maka'awa'awa; White Woman; Kapulani Landgraf.; title: Late Night FarewellSusana Lei'ataua; Blood Quantum 2; Naomi Losch; Hi'uwai; Kukui; Lufi A. Matā'afa Luteru; Waiting for the Sunrise at Haleakalā; By the Blur of My Hands; On Finding My Father's First Essay, San Joaquin Delta College, 1987; On Cooking Captain Cook; Kukui; Haumea; Brandy Nālani McDougall; A Ghost; Jerry, Sheree, and the Eel; Dan Taulapapa McMullin; Filemu Sāmoa!; Ole Maiava; Cardboard Crowns; A Sāmoan Star-chant for Matariki; Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894; Selina Tusitala Marsh; Turakina Street; Teina; Not that kind of Māori; Jean Mason; Once -; No Smoke without Fire.