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Voice Carried My Family Sullivan, Robert This new collection from a popular poet of Nga Puhi and Irish descent has great variety and strong pervasive themes such as the rewriting of New Zealand myths from a Polynesian perspective; there are also a number of beautiful love poems. The power of the spoken word has particular meaning for an inheritor of an oral tradition and Sullivan sees himself continuing a long line of storytellers, wits, singers. Deeply moved by his ancestors he engages directly and sentimentally with the complexity and moral ambiguity of the modern world. Similarly his formal techniques borrow from ancient times and acknowledge contemporary styles and emphases. The reader of his manuscript wrote — “The cultural mix and the language are exceptionally rich. The poems have a lovely conceptual energy that constantly yields surprises, unexpected and imaginative angles.” Sullivan is co-editor of Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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