There is no harbour /
Dinah Hawken's new long poem interweaves her family history in the early years of Pākehā settlement in Taranaki; a short history of the Taranaki Wars; and her thoughts and feelings as she researched and wrote the poem.
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Wellington :
Victoria University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Jane
- Rangikawau
- Plymouth to New Plymouth
- Under the mountain
- "All the history that did not happen'
- William, Jane's father, to his mother, Ann, North Tamerton, Cornwall
- William, to his father John, North Tamerton, Cornwall
- Belonging
- Jane and Joseph
- Youthful ignorance and hope
- 'If there is no land there is no resting place'
- Jane and Joseph's son Oswald left a notebook
- Refuge
- Jane, dressmaker, Joseph, farmer, a cloud-covered wedding
- South Taranaki
- Art, a record
- 1867, 'The year of the daughters'
- The journey
- The earmark
- Oswald, from his notebook
- 'Pain and revenge are twin clouds gathering'
- Rustling
- Titokowaru to Colonel Whitmore
- The milk run
- Tangi ana ngā tai Rū ana te whenua
- Day by day
- Te Whiti and Tohu
- 'Loss of posessions is a kind of freedom; loss of land is exile'
- Losing everything
- Patricia, a grand-daughter of Jane and Joe
- 1870
- Found poetry
- Raukura: white feather
- Ko manawanui: forbearance
- Peace.