mō taku tama
Author:
Vaughan Rapatahana
Publisher:
Kilmog Press
Date Published:
January 2022
Format:
Hardback, card and cloth over recycled boards, 32 pages, letterpress to covers and title page, numbered edition of 50 copies,
RRP:
$38.50
A new poetry book from Vaughan Rapatahana, mō taku tama, is available in hardback (card and cloth over recycled boards, 32 pages, letterpress to covers and title page, numbered edition of 50 copies, 24.5 cm x 15.5 cm).
Vaughan’s most recent book of poems is inaianei | now.
About the Author
Vaughan eight previous poetry collections have been published in Hong Kong SAR, Macau, Philippines, USA, England, France, India and Aotearoa New Zealand.
‘Whiffs of concrete poetry, language poetry abound, but you can’t simply reduce these poems to sumptuous wordplay. You might get led anywhere visually and aurally . . . This book is an utter delight’ — Paula Green Poetry Shelf
In 2016 Atonement (UST Press, Manila) was nominated for a National Book Award in Philippines and he won the inaugural Proverse Poetry Prize. His work was included in the Best New Zealand Poems of 2017.
In 2019 he participated in the World Poetry Recital Night in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He appeared at the Poetry International Festival at the Southbank Centre in London in the same year.
In 2021, Vaughan worked with a group of twelve women with Cook Islands heritage living in Tokoroa, as part of Read NZ Te Pou Muramura's Writers in Communities programme. The result of a series of creative writing workshops was an anthology: Te Kinakina: E Ngara I te Ngari, Remember who you are and where you come from, edited by Rapatahana and published by Read NZ.
On August 24 2021 he performed at the Medellin, Colombia Poetry Festival via Zoom, due to Covid restrictions. You can watch his segment here.
Rapatahana is a critic of the agencies of English language proliferation and the consequent decimation of indigenous tongues, inaugurating and co-editing English Language as a Hydra and Why English? Confronting the Hydra (Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK, 2012 and 2016).
