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Kia hiwa rā!
Kaupapa makes The Lumiere Reader Top 10 Books for 2007.
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Hinemoana and Maria would like to acknowledge the passing away of Kaupapa contributing poet Bernard Gadd (1935-2007) just a few days after our launch. Bernard's career and generousity in education, writing and editing is in part documented in his 2002 interview with Patricia Primein in Stylus Poetry Journal. The New Zealand poetry society is hosting a memorial page for Bernard.
Title: Kaupapa: New Zealand poets, world issues Editors: Hinemoana Baker & Maria McMillan Place of Publication: Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, Wellington Date: December 2007
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Poets from Aotearoa take on the world.
Enormous issues bevelled down to small shining things.
A sackful of hand grenades and fireflies. In this stunning new anthology, forty-five New Zealand poets turn to the world.
Tusiata Avia, Robert Sullivan, Airini Beautrais, CK Stead, James Brown, Bill Manhire, Jenny Bornholdt and many others carve a new place in a vibrant tradition of New Zealand political poetry.
Airini Beautrais Alice Miller Anne Kennedy Apirana Taylor Aroha Tapara Basim Farut Bernard Gadd Bill Manhire Bill Sewell Brenda Burke C.K. Stead Desirée Gezentsvey Dinah Hawken Dora Malech Emma Neale Hana O'Regan Helen Lehndorf Iain Britton James Brown James Norcliffe Jan Hutchison Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Jenny Bornholdt Joanna Aitchison Karlo Mila Kate Camp Laura Griffiths Leilani Unasa L.E. Scott Margaret Mitcalfe Marty Smith Mary Cresswell Michele Amas Nicola Manning Olivia Macassey Richard Reeve Robert Sullivan Roma Pōtiki Siabhan Harvey Tony Beyer Tracey Tawhiao Tusiata Avia Will Christie
Hinemoana Baker is a writer and musician. She was born in Ōtautahi, Christchurch and grew up mainly in Whakatane and Nelson. Her father is Māori (Raukawa, Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa, Kāi Tahu) and Pākehā and her mother's ancestors were from England and Germany. Time spent living in the UK and Africa in her early 20s marked the beginning of her political life and curiosity. Her first collection of poetry, 'mātuhi | needle', was co-published in 2004 by Victoria University Press (Wellington) and Perceval Press (Santa Monica, USA).
Maria McMillan is the youngest of four children born and raised in Ōtautahi, Christchurch and her ancestors came mostly from Scotland and England. She has a professional background in librarianship, an academic background in political science, and has been a social justice activist for many years. She manages the Dev-Zone programme at the Development Resource Centre.
Maria and Hinemoana met at the inaugural Iowa Poetry Workshop run by the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington in 2003, and have been sharing kōrero about writing, politics and everything else ever since.
He kōrerorero ki ngā Ētita / A coversation with the Editors
Kaupapa is introduced through a conversation between between editors Hinemoana Baker and Maria McMillan.
Excerpt from He kōrerorero
Maria: ...I had a friend who was at Genoa. Out on the street the Carabinieri killed a young Italian man, Carlo Giuliani. My friend chose to sleep next to the independent media centre (IMC) because he thought it’d be the safest place. But riot police destroyed the IMC computers and beat up protesters sleeping at the IMC and next door. The protesters weren’t out there with knives or bottles or anything. They were asleep. My friend talks about waking up and hearing the noise of the guards downstairs and that sensation of just waiting, knowing he was about to get thrashed. To me, it feels like Airini's poem [about those protests] talks to the Siobhan Harvey poem ‘Bang’. Both describe that sick physical sense of violence and fear of violence. One poem with a background of huge decisions being made behind huge fences; the other with a backdrop of domestic violence.
Hinemoana: It's hard-hitting poetry about hard out things. But I feel comfortable with this kind of writing. There's a long tradition of it in Māori oral literature and oratory in general. So many of our waiata tawhito are about loss of land, the death of loved ones, war, violence, injustice and grief. I believe it was and is an important part of healing from those things for us to compose and perform these waiata...
The Development Resource Centre (DRC) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation that works to inform and educate New Zealanders to take action to create a just world.
"We're all about creating debate and dialogue around aid, development and global issues. We realised poetry can reach people and move them in a way that a list of facts or even a great documentary can't", says Maria McMillan, co-editor of the book and manager of the Dev-Zone programme at the DRC.
Dev-Zone also runs a free public library with fantastic books, films and magazines on global issues, manages the knowledge centre, a portal of quality links on global issues and publishes the free magazine Just Change.
The DRC gratefully acknowledges financial support provided for this project by the Peace and Disarmament Education Trust.
The DRC is governed by an independent charitable trust and core funded by Nga Hoe Tupatupa-mai-tawhiti (The New Zealand Agency for International Development).
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