Taylor, Apirana

[Photograph: Justine Lord]

Apirana Taylor (b. 1955)

Contents:

Contemporary New Zealand Poets in Performance (2007):

Sad Joke on a Marae
Parihaka
Hinemoa’s daughter
six million

Aotearoa NZ Poetry Sound Archive (2004):

CD36

1. Sad Joke On A Marae
2. Whakapapa
3. Parihaka
4. The Moon
5. soft leaf falls of light
6. lady Anorexia
7. Hinemoa’s daughter
8. tangiwai
9. rawene
10. Huri Huri
11. six million
12. peace lanterns
13. a great seamstress
14. invisible
15. on Paekakariki beach
16. to Te Rerenga Wairua

12 Taonga from the AoNZPSA (nzepc, 2004):

Hinemoa's daughter

Bio /Bibliography:

Apirana Taylor was born in Wellington in 1955, of Te Whanau a Apanui, Ngati Porou and Ngati Ruanui descent. In addition to poetry, he has written short stories, criticism and a novel, He Tangi Aroha (1993). Taylor is also an actor and playwright, and was a prominent member of the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari. He has taught drama and creative writing at Whitireia Community Polytechnic, and has held writing fellowships at Massey University (1996) and the University of Canterbury (2002).

Poetry:

Eyes of the Ruru, Wellington: Voice Press, 1979
3 Shades (with Lindsay Rabbitt and L. E. Scott), Wellington: Voice Press, 1981
Soft Leaf Falls of the Moon, Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1996

Prose:

He Rau Aroha, Auckland: Penguin, 1986
Ki Te Ao: New Stories, Auckland: Penguin, 1990
He Tangi Aroha, Wellington: Huia Publishers, 1993
Bell Bird is Small: Short Stories, Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 2000

Drama:

Kohanga and Whāea Kairau, Auckland: Pohutukawa Press, 1999