Star Waka

Poems by Robert Sullivan

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Robert Sullivan ISBN: 9781775581598
Publisher: Auckland University Press Publication: May 29, 1999
Imprint: Auckland University Press Language: English
Author: Robert Sullivan
ISBN: 9781775581598
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Publication: May 29, 1999
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Language: English

Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Maori poet Robert Sullivan’s third book of poems, Star Waka, explores themes of journeying and navigation, moving back and forth in time and focus to confront colonisation, contemporary political issues and personal questions of family and identity. It came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka (canoe) or the ocean. Within these parameters, and in 2001 lines, Sullivan creates 100 poems that, he says, themselves function like a waka: ‘members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes – it is subject to the laws of nature’.

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Published on the cusp of the new millennium, Maori poet Robert Sullivan’s third book of poems, Star Waka, explores themes of journeying and navigation, moving back and forth in time and focus to confront colonisation, contemporary political issues and personal questions of family and identity. It came with some strings attached: each poem had to feature either a star, a waka (canoe) or the ocean. Within these parameters, and in 2001 lines, Sullivan creates 100 poems that, he says, themselves function like a waka: ‘members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes – it is subject to the laws of nature’.

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