Maori mythology and endless summers: the sparkling second collection from a daring new poetic
voice I am made in the image of my mother ... I am made in the image of my mountain my
river my whenua In Rangikura plastic tiaras melt into boiling rivers and family memories
blur with ancestral mythologies. Satanic stepbrothers play jenga while the deity Mahuika burns
- and the temperature is rising. Here anger and loss history and pop culture are spun into
verses woven with vernacular and Te Reo Maori. At the collection's centre our protagonist
whirls through a love hate story for the internet age facing the sting of unanswered texts and
unmet expectations with wit sensibility and devastating glamour. Rangikura is the captivating
second collection from award-winning poet Tayi Tibble. From feminism to colonialism skuxes to
daddies wild swimming to schoolboy hakas these poems at once mark the end of the world and
the dawn of a new day. Poignant hilarious and liberatory Rangikura reminds us that the
personal is sometimes political the political is always personal and poetry can be
revolutionary.
