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eng mao
343 pages
illustrations.
Contents: No ordinary sun -- Come rain hail -- Sap-wood & milk -- Something nothing -- Making a fist of it -- Year of the dog : poems new and selected -- Mihi : collected poems -- Short back & sideways, poems and prose -- Deep river talk : collected poems -- Shape-shifter -- Piggy-back moon -- Oooooo--!!! -- Previously uncollected.
Summary: This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his final works published when he was in his 80s. Also included are a handful of previously unpublished poems as well as a number translated into Maori by Pat Hohepa, Selwyn Muru and Waihoroi Shortland. (Books in Print)
In English with some Maori.