Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Alohi Ae‘a
Hālāwai
Between Bells
Endings
Vinepa Aiono
A Measure of Manukau
Kimo Armitage
Once, a long time ago
I Am Stupid
Upon Hearing the News that My Friend Has Terminal Cancer
Tusiata Avia
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
Hinemoana Baker
Last Born
Still
Sound Check
Joe Balaz
For the Wonders of the Universe
Zen
Serie Barford
How Things Change
Found Again
Nautilus Woman
Valerie Bichard
Nasalia
Vu ni yalo
Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank
Conversation With A Ghost 1974–1985
To A Sensitive Person
Bub Bridger
Wild Daisies
The Swans
At the Conference
Audrey Brown-Pereira
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
Leilani Burgoyne
The Beach
Tania Butcher
Muriwai
Te Tiriti O Waitangi (Oh, The Treaty)
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
28 (Māori) Battalion: LVII and LXV
Cages for the Wind: XI Warning to Children
Cook Islands Rhapsodies: I, IX and XI
Jacqueline Carter
Our tīpuna remain
Letter to a friend
Hīkoi Poem
Thoughts on what’s happening on Waiheke Island
Sam Cruickshank
As good as it gets
iMāori
Chelsea Mana‘olana Duarte
Makua
The Archbishop
Spaces
David Eggleton
Steve Irwin Way
Brightness
Takapuna Beach
Rangi Faith
After reading Jonathan Waterman
First Landing
Rivers Without Eels
A Special Expedition
Conversation with a moahunter
Joe Kalepo Fanua
Ginger roots
Forehead to forehead
Sia Figiel
Car commercials
Dawn approaching I think of a friend
The daffodils – from a native’s perspective
Kai Gaspar
The Broken Pounder
The Visitor
Marewa Glover
Saturday
Michael Greig
Tango
Rore Hapipi
Māori Land Protest March
Waiata Tangi
Tame Iti
Aroha Harris
How She Knows She is Māori: a checklist
Kina
Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui
Tatz
Imaikalani Kalahele
Ē Laka Ē
Make Rope
A Letter to My Brother
School Street Bridge
Kaho‘olawe
Phil Kawana
Adrift
Evolution
How to Train Your Labourer
Urupā
David Keali‘i
Quilt Poem
Kealoha
Recess
Nina Kirifi-Alai
Alapati
Ann Marie Nālani Kirk
The Market
Victoria Kneubuhl
For Tasi (Dotsy)
Olo
Kapulani Landgraf
Maka‘awa‘awa
White Woman
Susana Lei‘ataua
Late Night Farewell
Naomi Losch
Blood Quantum 2
Lufi A. Matā‘afa Luteru
Hi‘uwai
Kukui
Brandy Nālani McDougall
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
Dan Taulapapa McMullin
A Ghost
Jerry, Sheree, and the Eel
Ole Maiava
Filemu Sāmoa!
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Cardboard Crowns
A Sāmoan Star-chant for Matariki
Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1894
Jean Mason
Turakina Street
Teina
Not that kind of Māori
Trixie Te Arama Menzies
Once –
No Smoke without Fire
Ocean of Tongues
Courtney Meredith
No Motorbikes, No Golf
Cloth saints
Karlo Mila
Visiting Tonga: A Sestina Variation
Virgin Loi
For Ida
Eating Dark Chocolate and Watching Paul Holmes’ Apology
Legendary
Michael O’Leary
Livin’ ina Aucklan’
Christy Passion
Hear the Dogs Crying
It Was Morning
Prepare to Move into the White House
Mahealani Perez-Wendt
Ed’s Ho‘okupu
Kalua
Lili‘u
Leialoha Perkins
How the ‘Iva Flies
Ruperake Petaia
A Pain with a Butt
Primitive Thinking Things, Animals
Our Past
A Stuck-Up
Kiri Piahana-Wong
It was a time of heartbreak / Ka pā mai te pouri i taua wā
Deep Water Talk
Tiare Picard
Ancestors
The Tower
Friday
Platoon
Tafea Polamalu
Afakasi Philosophy
Daddy Said
Nifo Oti
Thank You Colonialism For:
Doug Poole
Posala & Gogo’sina III
Pouliuli 4
Gogolo
Brian Potiki
for tim buckley
tribal
hiroki’s song
hearts
Roma Pōtiki
Cannibals
Down we go
Speaking out
John Pule
Midnight Oceans
Tagi Qolouvaki
Untitled
Tell Me a Story
Vaine Rasmussen
at the Takitimu Festival 2008
Rosanna Raymond
One a Day – a 7 Maiden Rave On / or … The Dusky ain’t Dead she Just Diversified
Momoe Malietoa von Reiche
The Night He Broke My Heart
The Laugh That Gave Her Away
Pute ‘Oso – A Full Life
Reihana Robinson
Noa Noa Makes Breakfast for Caroline and Me / Or / The Tea Ceremony is Introduced to Sāmoa
Waiting for the Pālagi
Eti Sa‘aga
Post Hurricane Observation
Nightfall
Birthday Present
Luafata Simanu-Klutz
Tinā ‘ea
Caroline (Sina) Sinavaiana
In Memoriam: Agnes ‘Pako’ Yandall Gabbard
Dear Mom
Alice Te Punga Somerville
Daddy’s Little Girl
feet of clay: a tribute and an accusation
J. C. Sturm
Spring dreams
Winter interior
Disguise
Request
Robert Sullivan
Captain Cook
Māui’s Alternate Prayer
Took: A Preface to ‘The Magpies’
Vārua Tupu
Fragments of a Māori Odyssey
Cape Return
Ahi Kā – The House of Ngā Puhi
Sage Takehiro
Kou Lei
An Artist’s First Friday
Hina-i-ke-ahi
Tracey Tawhiao
My Mother and Me
Apirana Taylor
tangiwai
jetty in the night
zigzag roads
fishbone
Hinemoa’s daughter
Konai Helu Thaman
peace
the way ahead
letter to feifafa
letter to the colonel
Helen Tionisio
Sāmoa
Blaine Tolentino
Patsy Cline/Genesis
Shiva’s Left and Right Shoulder and Hand
Haunani-Kay Trask
Nā ‘Ōiwi
Nāmakaokaha‘i
Where the Fern Clings
In Our Time
Chant of Lamentation
Sisters
Colonisation
Hone Tuwhare
Kereihi (‘Standing quite still’)
The backbone of things
Ode to a blowfly
On becoming an Icon (!)
To Elespie, Ian & their Holy Whānau
‘I feel like a vulnerable pā-site’
Albert Wendt
The Ko‘olau
In Her Wake
She Dreams
With Hone in Las Vegas
Garden 4
Garden 5
Garden 26
A Definition of Atua, from The Adventures of Vela
Cave of Prophecies, from The Adventures of Vela
Hands, from The Adventures of Vela
Galulolo
Wayne Kaumualii Westlake
Statehood
Huli
Down on the Sidewalk (in Waikīkī)
The Kahuna of Waikīkī
As Rats Climb the Coconut Trees
The Hawaiian
Pakalolo
Native-Hawaiian
Vernice Wineera
Boy in a Sleeping Bag
Briar Wood
Ship Girl
Glossary
Index of titles
Index of poets by country