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Shortlisted for the 2021 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, Funkhaus is a striking and deeply resonant collection by queer/takatapui Maori writer Hinemoana Baker. Written while living in Berlin between 2015 and 2025, the poems transmit reflections on rebirth, love, friendship, displacement, and belonging across languages, landscapes, and generations.

Drawing on the German word funken — “to send a radio signal” — Baker broadcasts lyrical, humorous, and emotionally charged poems that move between Aotearoa and Europe, the living and the dead, intimacy and alienation. From Lake Geneva to Waitangi, Berlin to Ihumatao, these poems travel widely while remaining grounded in whakapapa, memory, and turangawaewae.

Combining punchy, powerful language with shimmering delicacy and trademark wit, Funkhaus invites readers to tune into a signal that carries both the loveliness and awfulness of human existence.

Key Features:
• Shortlisted for the 2021 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
• Explores identity, migration, love, loss, and belonging
• Written from a queer/takatapui Maori perspective
• Blends humour, intimacy, and lyrical intensity
• Travels across cultures, languages, and landscapes

Product Details:
• Author: Hinemoana Baker
• Format: Soft Cover
• ISBN: 9781776563142

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