Hopurangi—Songcatcher : Poems from the Maramataka
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Three birds flew from me:
a sparrow from my chest
a tui out my throat
a piwaiwaka from my thigh
they flew to see my father
to let him know I am well
— from ‘Tamatea Kai-ariki: ‘Three birds flew from me’
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 matauranga of his kuia from the Ngati Hau and Ngati Kaharau hapu of Ngapuhi; in his mother’s stories from his Ngati Manu hapu at Karetu; in the singing and storytelling at Puketeraki Marae, home of his father’s people of Kati Huirapa, Kati Mamoe, Waitaha and Kai Tahu Whanui in Te Tai o Araiteuru; and in the fellowship of friends on Facebook.
Tihei mauri ora!
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