Mauri ola : contemporary Polynesian poems in English / edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan.

Some poems previously published.

Includes indexes.

Met index.

Hālāwai ; Between bells ; Endings / Alohi Ae'a -- A measure of Manukau / Vinepa Aiono -- Once, a long time ago ; I am stupid ; Upon hearing the news that my friend has terminal cancer / Kimo Armitage -- Fresh from the Islands ; Pa'u-stina ; Wild dogs under my skirt ; Nafanua explains her pedigree ; Nafanua talks about her tupu'aga o le aiga / Tusiata Avia -- Last born ; Still ; Sound check / Hinemoana Baker -- For the wonders of the universe ; Zen / Joe Balaz -- How things change ; Found again ; Nautilus woman / Serie Barford -- Nasalia ; Vu ni yalo / Valerie Bichard -- Conversation with a ghost 1974-1985 ; To a sensitive person / Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank -- Wild daisies ; The swans ; At the conference / Bub Bridger -- The reincarnated mm : a cross cultural exchange between the big island taxi drivers and the young girl a expert visiting Sāmoa for the south pacific games / Audrey Brown-Pereira -- The beach / Leilani Burgoyne -- Muriwai ; Te Tiriti O Waitangi (oh, the treaty) / Tania Butcher -- 28 (Māori) Battalion : LVII and LXV ; Cages for the wind : XI warning to children ; Cook Islands rhapsodies : I, IX and XI / Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Our tīpuna remain ; Letter to a friend ; Hīkoi Poem ; Thoughts on what's happening on Waiheke Island / Jacqueline Carter -- As good as it gets ; iMāori / Sam Cruickshank -- Makua ; The Archbishop ; Spaces / Chelsea Mana'olana Duarte -- Steve Irwin Way ; Brightness ; Takapuna Beach / David Eggleton -- After reading Jonathan Waterman ; First landing ; Rivers without eels ; A special expedition ; Conversation with a moahunter / Rangi Faith -- Ginger roots ; Forehead to forehead / Joe Kalep Fanua -- Car commercials ; Dawn approaching I think of a friend ; The daffodils : from a native's perspective / Sia Figiel -- The broken pounder ; The visitor / Kai Gaspar -- Saturday / Marewa Glover -- Tango / Michael Greig -- Māori land protest march ; Waiata tangi ; Tame Iti / Rore Hapipi -- How she knows she is Māori : a checklist ; Kina / Aroha Harris -- Tatz / Ku'ualoha Ho'omanawanui -- Ē lake ē ; Make rope ; A letter to my brother ; School street bridge ; Kaho'olawe / Imaikalani Kalahele -- Adrift ; Evolution ; How to train your labourer ; Urupa / Phil Kawana -- Quilt poem / David Keali'i -- Recess / Kealoha -- Alapati / Nina Kirifi-Alai -- The market / Ann Marie Nālani Kirk -- For Tasi (Dotsy) ; Olo / Victoria Kneubuhl -- Maka'awa'awa ; White woman / Kapulani Landgraf -- Late night farewell / Susana Lei'ataua -- Blood quantum 2 / Naomi Losch -- Hi'uwai ; Kukui / Lufi A. Matā'afa Luteru -- Waiting fron the sunrise at Haleakalā / by the blur of my hands ; On finding my father's first essay, San Joaquin Delta College, 1987 ; On cooking Captain Cook ; Kukui ; Haumea / Brandy Nālani McDougall -- A ghost ; Jerry, Sheree, and the eel / Dan Taulapapa McMullin -- Filemu Sāmoa / Ole Maiava -- Cardboard crowns ; A Sāmoan star-chant for Matariki ; Two nudes on a Tahitian beach, 1894 / Selina Tusitala Marsh -- Turakina Street ; Teina ; Not that kind of Māori / Jean Mason -- Once ; No smoke without fire ; Ocean of tongues / Trixie Te Arama Menzies -- No motorbikes, no golf ; Cloth saints / Courtney Meredith -- Visiting Tonga : a sestina variation ; Virgin Loi ; For Ida ; Eating dark chocolate and watching Paul Holmes' apology ; Legendary / Karlo Mila -- Livin' ina Aucklan' / Michael O'Leary -- Hear the dogs crying ; It was morning ; Prepare to move into the white house / Christy Passion -- Ed's Ho'okupu ; Kalua ; Lili'u / Mahealani Perez-Wendt -- How the 'Iva flies / Leialoha Perkins -- A pain with a butt ; Primitive thinking things, animals ; Our past ; A stuck-up / Ruperake Petaia -- It was a time of heartbreak : ka pa mai te pouri i taua wā ; Deep water talk / Kiri Piahana-Wong -- Ancestors ; The tower ; Friday ; Platoon / Tiare Picard -- Afakasi philosophy ; Daddy said ; Nifo oti ; Thank you colonialism for / Tafea Polamalu -- Posala & Gogo'sina III ; Pouliuli ; Gogolo / Doug Poole -- For Tim Buckley ; Tribal ; Hiroki's song ; Hearts / Brian Potiki -- Cannibals ; Down we go ; Speaking out / Roma Pōtiki -- Midnight oceans / John Pule -- Untitled ; Tell me a story / Tagi Qolouvaki -- At the Takitimu Festival 2008 / Vaine Rasmussen -- One a day : a 7 maiden rave on or the dusky ain't dead she just diversified / Rosanna Raymond -- The night he broke my heart ; The laugh that gave her away ; Pute'Oso : a full life / Momoe Malietoa von Reiche -- Noa Noa makes breakfast for Caroline and me or the tea ceremony is introduced to Sāmoa ; Waiting for the Pālagi / Reihana Robinson -- Post hurricane observation ; Nightfall ; Birthday present ; Eti Sa'aga -- Tinā'ea / Luafata Simanu-Klutz -- In memoriam : Agnes 'Pako" Yandall Gabbard ; Dear Mom / Caroline (Sina) Sinavaiana -- Daddy's little girl ; Feet of clay : a tribute and an accusation / Alice Te Punga Somerville -- Spring dreams ; Winter interior ; Disguise ; Request / J.C. Sturm -- Captain Cook ; Māui's alternate prayer ; Took : a preface to 'The Magpies' Vārua Tupu ; Fragments of a Māori odyssey ; Cape return ; Ahi Kā : the house of Ngā Puhi / Robert Sullivan -- Kou Lei ; An artist's first Friday ; Hina-i-ke-ahi / Sage Takehiro -- My mother and me / Tracey Tawhiao -- Tangiwahi ; Jetty in the night ; Zigzag roads ; Fishbone ; Hinemoa's daughter / Apirana Taylor -- Peace ; The way ahead ; Letter to Feifafa ; Letter to the Colonel / Konai Helu Thaman -- Sāmoa / Helen Tionisio -- Patsy Cline : Genesis ; Shiva's left and right shoulder and hand / Blaine Tionisio -- Nā 'Ōiwi ; Nāmakaokaha'i ; Where the fern clings ; In our time ; Chant of lamentation ; Sisters ; Colonisation / Haunani-Kay Trask -- Kereihi ('standing quite still') ; The backbone of things ; Ode to a blowfly ; On becoming an icon (!) ; To Elespie, Ian & their Holy Whānau ; 'I feel like a vulnerable pā-site' / Hone Tuwhare -- The Ko'olau ; In her wake ; She dreams ; With Hone in Las Vegas ; Garden 4 ; Garden 5 ; Garden 26 ; A defintion of Atua, from The Adventures of Vela ; Cave of prophecies from the Adventures of Vela ; Hands, from The Adventures of Vela ; Galulolo / Albert Wendt -- Statehood ; Huli ; Down on the sidewalk (in Waikīkī) ; The kahuna of Waikīkī ; As rats climb the coconut trees ; The Hawaiian ; Pakalolo ; Native-Hawaiian / Wayne Kaumualii Westlake -- Boy in a sleeping bag / Vernice Wineera -- Ship girl / Briar Wood.