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Category: Māori

• Aotearoa creative writing Dunedin City of Literature events flash fiction indigenous Kamau Taurua/Quarantine Island Landfall multimedia Māori New Zealand New Zealand Literature poetry Queenstown Writers Festival reviews social issues Te Hau Kāika The Best Small Fictions then the wind came

  November…the month of surprises

  October was exceptionally difficult, with the ending of a relationship I had given myself fully to, health issues that resurfaced requiring serious management, and on top of that a tonne of preparation for the Te Hau Kāika exhibition. ‘Bring on freaking November,’ I said (in a surreptitious manner under my…

  November 28, 2019
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  Te Hau Kāika

  Nau mai haere mai. A warm welcome to everyone who can make this exciting exhibition I am part of next month. Te Hau Kāika – where is home? 16 – 23 November 2019.   Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Iona, Reuben and Grace invite you to join…

  October 15, 2019
• Aotearoa brain injury creative process creative writing flash fiction Flash Frontier Māori New Zealand Radio New Zealand TBI

  On the radio…

  Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Radio New Zealand, with Karyn Hay. Here’s the link if you’d like a listen. I’m on about 27 minutes in. https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/lately/20181001 We had a kōrero about the genre, and the writing of flash fiction, my journey with healing from a…

  October 8, 2018
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  Monsters Conversation

  Kia ora WordPress whānau, Sharing a kōrero (conversation) I contributed to, along with other Indigenous writers from the Pacific Monsters Anthology. https://ics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/02/24/pacific-monsters/ Kia ora to the Institute of Classical Studies in London, for the opportunity to contribute to this wonderful and enriching kōrero. Iona x

  February 26, 2018
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  Hui Podcast

  It’s the strangest thing hearing myself played back after public speaking. Here’s the podcast link (for anyone who is interested) to my kōrero from the Creative Cities Southern Hui in Ōtepoti Dunedin. I’m No.10 on the list, but the others are well worth a listen too if you have the time. http://www.accessradio.org/ProgrammePage.aspx?PID=7d7bd8c1-7e05-4ff3-a22a-577ed0238fbb…

  December 18, 2017
• Aotearoa essay fibromyalgia health holistic indigenous Māori

  Thinking outside the box

  Kia ora WordPress whānau, Sharing today an essay I’ve written for Corpus—a wonderful digital forum where ‘conversations about medicine and life’ take place. It speaks to a shared journey with fibromyalgia, cancer, chronic pain and managing conditions holistically, to include our indigenous perspectives and practices. http://corpus.nz/thinking-outside-box/#more-3610 Please share, if you feel it might…

  June 5, 2017
• Aotearoa Māori publication Scotland short story

  Published

  Kia ora WordPress whānau, Today I’ve had a short story published in The Island Review. This story was submitted before I travelled to Edinburgh (from Aotearoa, New Zealand) to read at the International Book Festival last year. It’s wonderful to have ‘Karanga’, as read in Charlotte Square Gardens, published in Scotland (where…

  January 17, 2017
• Aotearoa consciousness Māori poetry women

  womb

  kaleidoscopic web veined whenua blood suspended   kākano undulating anointed and ripe   taonga omnipotent infinite womb

  January 9, 2017
• Aotearoa creative writing indigenous Māori poetry

  te reo māori

  i’m grateful i was taught te reo māori as a kid and had my bum kicked figuratively if i got pronunciation wrong we take our shoes off so we don’t trek any tiko inside ngā whare metaphorically i cringe when people say ‘leave them on’ or utter words badly because that’s how they’ve ‘always’ said them i know the reactions when i do the…

  July 4, 2016