This compulsion in us /
"It's not beautiful, not at all, when it's there in front of you, but writing transforms. Makereti stands at the foot of her mounga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tupuna at her elbow she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her fathe...
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Wellington, New Zealand :
Te Herenga Waka University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- He Whare Tūpuna
- by Your Place in the World: Meeting the Ancestor on the Road ; An Englishman, and Irishman and a Welshman Walk Into a Pā ; Tōtaranui
- Queen Charlotte Sound ; By Your Place in the World, I Will Know Who You Are ; Twitch ; Pudding ; Gods and Ghosts ; A Strange Leaving ; How to Be a Māori Woman; He Whare Tuhinga
- Stories Can Save Your Life: Poutokomanawa
- the Heartpost ; Spinner ; The Story That Matters ; Bread ; On All Our Different Islands ; Māori Writing: Speaking With Two Mouths ; Dog Love ; Bleeding on the Page: on Writing, Community and Reviews ; 14 Saint Mary Street, 2014; He Whare Taonga
- Make Way for Them: This Compulsion in Us ; Address to the Tauihu in the Face to Face Exhibition ; Bugger ; Make Way for Them ; Tea ; Driving on a Highway at the End of the World ; This Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdoms ; Lumpectomy ; Funny Little Ugly Baby ; Pao Pao Pao; Postscript: You Only Have to Go Through This Once.