Anthologies
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: an anthology of new writing for a changed world, edited by Witi Ihimaera & Michelle Elvy, 2023 Massey University Press.
NoaNoa von Bassewitz (daughter) graces the front and back cover plus further woodblocks inside. My poem "Inside/Outside" was selected.
"Eminent writers think about a better world. Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tēpu kōrero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-kōrero embody the tāhuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole, of the shelter. In a series of rich conversations, those present discuss our world in the second decade of this century; they look at decolonisation, indigeneity, climate change...this is what they see...this fresh, exciting anthology features poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as kōrero or conversations between writers and work by local and international artists."
A Liminal Gathering: Elixir & Star Almanac 2023
This Grief Almanac contains my poem 'Caroline has gone dance about.'
TE AWA O KUPU
Published 2023, Penguin Random House New Zealand
A stunning new collection of poetry and stories by contemporary Māori writers. Over 80 contemporary Māori writers explore a vast array of issues that challenge, stimulate and intrigue. With originality and insight, these poems and short stories express compassion, concern, curiosity, suffering and joy. My poem "Jealousy or the main highway" is part of this anthology.
More Favourable Waters
More Favourable Waters: Aotearoa’s Poets Respond to Dante’s Purgatory, edited by Marco Sonzogni snd Timothy Smith. Publisher Cuba Press, 2021.
This volume contains my poem "The triumph of death."
The Poetical Lobe
The Poetical Lobe Project is the first of its kind: a community poetry anthology bringing together fifty-five New Zealanders affected in different ways by neurological conditions. It contains words by patients, whānau of patients, doctors, healthcare staff, students, and more, capturing the mysteries and stories of the brain.
This contains my poem "The sheath wears."
Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand
Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand was launched at WORD Christchurch Spring Festival on Friday, 30 October 2020. Edited by Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris, & James Norcliffe.
The starting point for the anthology was the statement by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after the March Christchurch attacks: ‘Because we represent diversity, kindness, compassion, a home for those who share our values, refuge for those who need it…we will not, and cannot, be shaken by this attack.’ The book includes prose, poetry and visual art that explores, investigates or interrogates life in contemporary New Zealand. A celebration, yes, but also an examination of who we are, with young voices new to publication and well-known poets, storytellers and essayists. My poem "We lost our medicine mama" was selected for this anthology.
Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry
Paula Green, 2019
New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were due in their lifetimes. Wide-ranging, engaging and affecting, Wild Honey celebrates the many ways in which poems by women deserve a place in the literary canon of Aotearoa. Charming and unique, the book’s chapters follow the structure of a house, with different poets being discussed and assessed in each of the house’s rooms. The selection is enormously generous, the tone is at times gentle and accessible, and Green’s reach is wide. She brings the pioneers of women’s poetry — Jessie Mackay, Blanche Baughan and Eileen Duggan — back from the shadows, and she also draws our attention to the remarkable stories of forgotten women poets such as Lola Ridge.
Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems
Edited by Philip Temple and Emma Neale, Otago University Press, 2017
Available from the University of Otago
This anthology contains my poem "Ah Tonto…watcha gonna do ‘bout Aotearoa? Version."
Ora Nui 3: Māori Literary Journal Going Global
Editor Anton Blank, 2017
This anthology contains versions of "What is a nation?", "Mourning Song," "No one own you magic mountain," "Scissor paper rock (no game for Moehau)," and "The badge of my tribe."
AUP NEW POETS 3
Available from:
Auckland University Press
Unity Books Online
Reihana's poetry collection Waiting for the Palagi was featured in this Auckland University Press publication together with New Zealand poets Janis Freegard and Katherine Liddy.
Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English
Edited by Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan
In this pioneering anthology, two leading Māori poets and scholars collect together many Māori poetic voices in English and let flow a wellspring of poetry.
From revered established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Kōrero offer a broad picture of Māori poetry in English. The voices are many and diverse: confident, angry, traditional, respectful, experimental, despairing and full of hope, expressing a range of poetic techniques and the full scope of what it is to be Māori.
From Rangi Faith's 'Karakia to a silent island' to Ben Brown claiming back Baxter's 'Maori Jesus', Phil Kawana's 'Scenes from a council tenancy' and Reihana Robinson's rewrites of the Rona and the moon legend, Tuwhare's lines on a snail shell and Jacq Carter's lines on the Ōmaru River, there is much diversity in this kete. There are poems from all walks of life and using different modes of writing, laments for koro and hopes for mokopuna, celebrations of the land and anger at its abuse, retellings of myth and reclamations of history.
From the chanted songs and oratory of a traditional culture, to engagement with the English language in the nineteenth century, and on into the cultural revival of the late twentieth century, Māori have always been deeply engaged with poetic forms, and Puna Wai Kōrero showcases that deep whakapapa and celebrates its current strength.
MORE ANTHOLOGIES
Une anthology de la poesie māori contemporaine, edited by Manuel van Thienen, published 2019
Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 political poems, edited by Philip Temple and Emma Neale, published 2017 Otago University Press
Poetry in Multicultural Oceania - Book Two, edited by Vaughan Rapatahana
Maori Literary Journal ORA NUI 1
ORA NUI 2012, a Maori Literary Journal, edited by Anton Blank
MAURI OLA Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English Whetu Moana 11, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whatiri & Robert Sullivan, Auckland University Press 2010
TE AO MĀRAMA Contemporary Maori Writing, Volume 3 Te Puāwaitanga o te Kōrero The Flowering. Selected and edited by Witi Ihimaera
Notes for the Translators from 142 New Zealand and Australian poets, edited by Kit Kelen