AN INVITATION FROM ALBERT WENDT

Reina and Robert and I would like to invite you to the launch of our latest anthology MAURI OLA:Contemporary Poems in English from Polynesia.

The launch is on Thursday 14 October at 5.30 pm - 7pm, at the Auckland Central Library, Top Floor, 44 - 46 Lorne Street, Auckland City.
NB - The launch is now at PARSONS BOOKSHOP, 26 Wellesley Street East, Auckland, from 5.30 pm to 7pm, on Wednesday 13 th October.

See ya there if you can make it!
Ia manuia le aso!
Reina, Robert and Al


Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English

ed. by Albert Wendt; Reina Whaitiri; Robert Sullivan
University of Hawaii Press

Mauri Ola is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthropology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians. The new book includes poetry written over the last twenty-five years by more than eighty writers from Aotearoa, Hawai‘i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti, and Rotuma.

This anthology includes selections from poets including Tusiata Avia, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Rangi Faith, Sia Figiel, Imaikalani Kalahele, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Karlo Mila, J. C. Sturm, Robert Sullivan, Apirana Taylor, Konai Helu Thaman, Haunani-Kay Trask, Hone Tuwhare, Albert Wendt, and Wayne Kaumualii Westlake.

About the editors:

Albert Wendt’s most recent book, The Adventures of Vela, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Southeast Asia/Pacific region). Reina Whaitiri is an editor and researcher of Maori and Pacific literature. Robert Sullivan is head of the creative writing school at Manukau Institute of Technology.