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A marvellous hikoi through Aotearoa today alongside a leading Maori poet.
my old friend
I wonder how far north
you travel?
The road goes west
starting two doors up from The Dog’s Bollix
ending at sunset.
So many sunsets
Facebook and Instagram couldn’t contain them.

Tunui | Comet is the first collection in more than a decade by one of our most important living Maori poets. Rolling easily between korero Maori and the canonical traditions of English-language poetry, through karakia and powhiri, treaty training and decolonisation wiki entries, Robert Sullivan takes readers on a marvellous poetic hikoi.

Guided by Maui and Tawhirimatea, Moana Jackson and Freddie Mercury, we walk from K’Rd council flats to Kaka Point, finding ourselves and our ancestors along the way.

We stand tall before we play the clock out
past the reef toward Matariki. Clouds raise
their fists as seagulls and sparrows swoon
into the rainbow. It has been a long homecoming
and he has made the pieces one.

Author:Robert Sullivan
Format: Soft Cover
ISBN: 9781869409692

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