This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with
compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives
through noir, whakama and kitsch and emerges dripping with colour and liquor.
There's whakapapa, funk (in all its connotations) and fetishisation. The poems
map colonisation of many kinds through intergenerational, indigenous
domesticity, sex, image and disjunction. They time-travel through the powdery
mint-green 1960s and the polaroid sunshine 1970s to the present day. Their
language and forms are liquid-sometimes as lush as what they describe, other
times deliberately biblical or oblique. It all says: here is a writer who is
experiencing herself as powerful, restrained but unafraid, already confident
enough to make a phat splash on the page. -Hinemoana Baker
Author Biography
Tayi Tibble (Te Whanau a Apanui/Ngati Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in
Wellington. In 2017 she completed a Masters in Creative Writing from the
International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington,
where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize. Poukahangatus is her
first book.
