
Staff Pick
Aria
by Jessica Hinerangi
AUCK OUT OF STOCK
WGTN IN STOCK
Pages:
76
Published:
Dec 2023
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Auckland University Press
ISBN:
9781869409913
Where is my tongue? On display, a trophy of war. Where is my tikanga? Kept in the basement. Where is my mana? Locked in the museum. And where are my whanau? Scattered like dandelion seeds, from the grating city, to the harnessed horizon. Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. Spitting on the statue of Captain Cook. Aria is a first collection of poems by Jessica Hinerangi in which the author reconnects with her tupuna and with te ao Maori. He kakano ahau i ruia mai i Rangiatea a, ka tipu tonu. Tihei, mauri ora!
$30.00
I am still constantly thinking about Āria. It has stayed with me since I read it & I can't shake the feeling Hinerangi crawled into my brain & saw everything I thought about being a white-passing Māori or reclaiming māoritanga. Hinerangi writes with such calm, deliberate, considerate anger. YOU SIMPLY MUST READ!



