Myths and Legends of the Ancient Pākehā
Author(s): Glenn Colquhoun; illustrations by Nigel Brown
Poetry | Aotearoa | Aotearoa | Art | Music
In this collection of poems Glenn Colquhoun explores a range of Pākehā oral poetic forms; sea shanties, hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes and clapping songs. It is a companion volume to Three Women, his collection of poetry in Te Reo Māori, and is richly illustrated by Nigel Brown. A soundtrack to the poems is available at www.glenncolquhoun.net
“It was by looking at Māori oral poetry more closely that I came to ask what it is that a Pākehā oral poem might sound like. And whether it is capable of holding the same power. Might a sea-shanty meet the energy of a haka? Can a hymn stand up to a mōteatea? To find out I went back to the ways that spoken English poetry first arrived in New Zealand: via sea-shanty and hymn, lullaby and nursery rhyme, working song, clapping song and skipping song. I also went back to what has often been the concern of oral poems, our histories.”
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- : Glenn Colquhoun; illustrations by Nigel Brown
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