Poūkahangatus /

This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakamā and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor. There's whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tibble, Tayi, 1995- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Wellington : Victoria University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	New Zealand poetry > 21st century. New Zealand poetry. 2000-2099 Maori poetry > 21st century. New Zealand poetry > Maori authors. Poetry.

Table of Contents:

Poūkahangatus
In the 1960s an influx of Māori women
I wear aviators to the club
The Warehouse
Our nan lets us smoke inside
Tangi in the King Country
Agenda
Sensitivity
Cowboys and Indians
Mint-green cross
Ode to Johnsonville's Cindy Crawford
Hoki Mai
Nobody in the water
Christmas
Long white clouds
LBD
Watching the boys play rugby
Pania
Baptism
Takeaways
Shame
Vampires versus Werewolves
Scabbing
Assimilation
Red American mustang
Red-blooded males
wtn boys
A sugar daddy is essentially an arts patron
Black velvet mini
Receipt
Identity politics
Hawaiki.