Te Puawaitanga o te korero : the flowering / selected and edited by Witi Ihimaera ; contributing editors, Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden, and D.S. Long.

"Maori writing at the margin"--Kaupapa.

In English, some text in Maori.

Some works previously published.

Revision of Cataloguing-in-publication data.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-339).

Who am I? / Donna Rapira -- White in brown ; Te koi o te Mere (extract / Chris Winitana -- W.A.R.N. / Ngatai Huata -- Still clearing the land ; Pita and the old man ; The Pakeha half ; Letter to Mita / Pearl de Vere Boyed -- Year of the eye (extract) / Linda Taukamo -- This street ; Black and tan / Norman Te Whata -- Everything that is ; Hell to pay ; Papatuanuku = Will survive ; A woman / Mahinarangi Tocker -- I am Maori ; Earth mother ; Fried bread ; Papatuanuku ; Intrusion ; Expectations ; Barriers / Hinewirangi -- Auntie Marleen ; Sunday drive ; Kurangaituku ; Makawa ; Their public, private passion / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- Station of love / Willie Hona -- No karanga for me ; Mooncall ; paua ; Auntie Netta ; Putting out her fire / Marewa Glover -- Piss up and rage ; Groper face ; A cry for help / Cole Seymour -- A beautiful day / Diana Matapuku -- Proud to be Maori / Andrew Manuel -- Phenixphlite / Thomas Kaika -- The sputnik / Jason Waitokia -- Boof Em : the street fighter / Matthew Howell -- One Saturday morning / Eugene Grace -- Raimata (extract) ; Te Hokina = The return (extracts) / Riwia Brown -- I don't wear no rings ; The scream ; Wahinemoana ; Mercury Gold ; For my father, William Pehimana Sparks / Teremoana Pehinama -- Mangu (extract) ; The confirmation ; Te au (extracts) ; Broken arse (extracts) / Bruce Stewart -- The innocent / Truda Chadwick -- No Auckland ; Okareka ; Hiroki's song (extract) / Brian Potiki -- Torbay revisited ; For my father in prison, 1965 ; Noa = Nothing I : an irony ; Rübesahl : a fable in four parts with a prologue and epilogue ; Straight (extract) / Michael O'Leary -- Shootin the shit with Lily Barbados / Lisa Reihana -- Torn apart ; About my work : 2 ; Fisher-woman / Emare Karaka -- Totara dreaming, [or] On his birthday ; Nana ; In the school holidays ; Gabrielle Luise Muir -- No nukes ; Pay the man / Dilworth Karaka -- Toa Rangatira ; Ao tea roa ; Mama-san ; At La'eiloa ; Essay / Vernice Wineera Pere -- Amnesia II, 1985 ; Checkmate breakfast / Rangi Chadwick -- Te rua (extracts) -- Ados on her sleeve (extract) -- Me and Spike Lee and me ; Tribesman with sunlight in his pocket ; At the Polynesian Festival ; Hui is the strongest fulla in Otara / Patrick John Rata -- The mountain song (extract) / Ana Meihana -- We are the people ; Ripe belly / Maxine Naden -- Waiting for the Palagi ; Celia ; Cheap talk / Reihana MacDonald -- Say no! ; Uncooked (extract) / Neil Gudsell -- Memories of a whaka penny-diver ; once were warriors (extract) ; one night out stealing (extracts) / Alan Duff -- Sometimes we meet ; Snake woman came to visit ; I Mark ; I'll drink water ; Meriana ; Bound to ; For words lost / Roma Potiki -- Whatungarongaro (extracts) / He Ara Hou -- I asked for riches ; Pa mai to reo aroha ; Tara diptych ; Lullaby for a stone doll ; Pauashell gods ; Waiting on the laughing owl ; Stargazer ; Watch a seal in water ; Te Kaihau = The windeater (extract) ; Hinekaro goes on a picnic and blows up another obelisk ; The bone people (extract) ; Bait (extracts) ; Headnote to a Maui tale / Keri Hulme -- Stormy weather ; True justice ; E tu / Dean Hapeta -- A poem and two letters to Sophie (What can I ; A letter to my mother ; A letter to Sophie = hohi pine whaanga-kaa) / Arapera Hinera Blank, Keri Kaa and Tungia Baker -- Maku ra pea / Heneriata Maxwell.

In English, some text in Maori.