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Shared Histories
Brief Description
Across the motu there are places that remind those who stop there of the bloody battles between Māori iwi and the Crown, known as the New Zealand Wars. Many don’t know where these places are; most don’t stop. In 2021, Palmerston North poet and artist John...
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In 2021 Palmerston North poet and artist John Tāne Christeller decided to visit the sites of the NZ Wars and record what he saw, and from his observations he created a series of woodblock prints and short poems in English and te reo Māori.
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Description
Across the motu there are places that remind those who stop there of the bloody battles between Māori iwi and the Crown, known as the New Zealand Wars. Many don’t know where these places are; most don’t stop.
In 2021, Palmerston North poet and artist John Tāne Christeller decided to visit these sites and record what he saw. From his observations, he created a series of woodblock prints and short poems in English and te reo Māori. Collected together in Shared Histories, they tell the stories of ordinary places where battles were fought and men, women, and children died; places we drive past every day, often without knowledge or reflection.
Christeller hopes his work will open up a conversation about the battle sites, what they meant to New Zealanders then and now, and perhaps help towards correcting an imbalance in how we remember those who fought there: Pākehā and Māori.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781988595597
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 September 2022
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: The Cuba Press
Illustration: 20 colour images
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 6.0mm
Width: 224.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 52
About the Author
John Tāne Christeller is a print artist and a poet who writes in English and te reo Māori. He lives in Palmerston North with his wife, Donna, following a career as a plant and insect scientist that took him to Japan, the US and Europe. Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue was his first book.
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