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Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Māori legends for children. He co-edited, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, the anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English, Whetu Moana (2002) and Mauri Ola (2010), and an anthology of Māori poetry with Reina Whaitiri, Puna Wai Kōrero (2014), all published by Auckland University Press. Among many awards, he received the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His most recent collection was Tūnui | Comet (Auckland University Press, 2022).

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Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan

Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka

Tūnui | Comet

Star Waka

Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English

Captain Cook in the Underworld

Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English

Voice Carried My Family

Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English