Echidna, or, the many adventures of Hinenākahirua as she tries to find her place in a colonised world : included throughout is the story of Māui-Pōtiki & Prometheus

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Title:

Author:

Ranapiri, Essa May author

ISBN:

9781776920099

Additional ISBN:

9781776920099

Award(s):

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023 : Poetry Longlist

Personal Author:

Ranapiri, Essa May author

Publication Information:

Wellington, [New Zealand] : Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022.

Physical Description:

96 pages ; 22 cm

General Note:

Poems.

Local Note:

Rotorua Library: Essa May Ranapiri (Ngāti Wehi Wehi, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Arawa, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Pukeko, Ngāti Takatāpui, Na Guinnich).

Personal Subject:

Prometheus (Greek deity)-Poetry.

Subject Term:

Maui (Polynesian deity) -- Poetry.

Mythology, Māori -- Poetry.

Mythology, Greek -- Poetry.

Māori poetry -- 21st century.

Pūrākau.

Genre:

Poetry.

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.

Language:

English

Abstract:

"Essa May Ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek Mother of Monsters, as she tries to figure out life and identity living in a colonised world. Alongside this Maui and Prometheus get into a very hot relationship. Echidna contends with three strands of tradition; Greek mythology, Christianity and Maori pūrākau, and through weaving them together attempts to create a queerer whole. It is a book that is in conversation with the work of many others; from Milton and R.S. Thomas to jayy dodd and Joshua Whitehead to Hinemoana Baker and Keri Hulme. Situating and building its own world out of a community of queer and Maori/Pasifika writing, it carefully places itself in a whakapapa of takatapui story-telling"--Publisher.

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essa may ranapiri's second poetry collection follows the story of Echidna, their own interpretation of the Greek Mother of Monsters, as she tries to figure out life and identity living in a colonised world. Alongside this Maui and Prometheus get into a very hot relationship. Echidna contends with three strands of tradition; Greek mythology, Christianity and Maori esoteric knowledge, and through weaving them together attempts to create a queerer whole. It is a book that is in conversation with the work of many others; from Milton and R.S. Thomas to jayy dodd and Joshua Whitehead to Hinemoana Baker and Keri Hulme. Situating and building its own world out of a community of queer and Maori/Pasifika writing, it carefully places itself in a whakapapa of takatapui story-telling

Genre:

Poetry.

New Zealand poetry -- 21st century.