Professor Konai Helu Thaman (Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor, and UNESCO Chair in teacher education & culture ? The University of the South Pacific) says this about the collection: This is a refreshing and welcome addition to the growing list of...
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Professor Konai Helu Thaman (Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor, and UNESCO Chair in teacher education & culture ? The University of the South Pacific) says this about the collection: This is a refreshing and welcome addition to the growing list of women's writing in Oceania. Karlo draws wisdom and compassion from her ancestral cultures but is not constrained by them. Honest and unafraid, she has spread her net wide in order to capture the many concerns that many people are grappling with as they face the realities of a globalised and impersonal world. Written with passion, persistence and sen
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Tuakana; For Sia Figiel; For Albert Wendt (On his Birthday); For John Pule; For Alice Walker; Pasifika Revisited; Visiting Tonga: A Sestina Variation; Virgin Loi; On Joining Pacifica; For Carmel; Beyond Blackbirder Legacies; From Pink Katie to Blue Carrie; For Ida; Sacred Pulu; Octopus Auckland: Eight Suburbs; Eating Dark Chocolate and watching Paul Holmes' Apology; Savai'i Rental; Savai'i Sorceress; For Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi; Wero; Manuhiri; 21st Key; On One Tree Hill Falling; Annette Sykes Visits: Ahi Kaa; Legendary; Poroporoaki
HighburyFor Papa Sean; Papa Sean; Yes, This is a Love Poem; Missed; Friday Night; Leaving Prince Charming Behind; PJ; One night standing; Hook Line and Sinker; on seeing someone who … (didn't see me); The H. Series; For Ava (The One and Only Blind Man); The Grass is Greener; Death of a DJ; 3 am (after Shakers); Plastic; Venus Fly-trap; After Lunch Reflections; An Independent Observation; Tane Mahuta; Today: Embracing Newness; Dry Land; Five Day Farewell after Fighting; Ode to the God of Wisdom; Pikipiki hama kae vaevae manava; He Piko he Taniwha, he Piko he Taniwha
Rarotonga Pretend HoneymooningThis is Love; Working Through Life; The Poet as Unionist; Chivalry is not Dead; Ex-Trade Union Organiser Angst; Now that I am No Longer One of Us; Beaven Lecture Theatre: Otago 2 July 2002; Confessions of a Pacific Health Bureaucrat; Chanting Back to the Bones; Hafe kasi to Afa kasi; For Alice Hunt; For Makelesi Taulepa: Fefine mei Ofu; Wednesday afternoon; Maka; For my Mother; Our Mother is in Love; For my Aunts (Fahu and Beyond); Whenua Tapu; For Aunty Olive (98th Birthday); Notes; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Copyright
