Anne-Marie Te Whiu

A remarkable and impressive debut collection of poems that speak to the complexity of family, identity and the proud legacy of Māori language and culture. Te Whiu's poetic voice is bright, and new. As well as vividly poetic storytelling, the humour here is mordant ... in the best spirit of a bustling diverse indigenous poetics, it excels' -Robert Sullivan The...

A ground-breaking and original collection that showcases Australia and New Zealand's leading performance poets. Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared...