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Rain Poetry by Hone Tuwhare Music by Don McGlashan

Rain Poetry by Hone Tuwhare Music by Don McGlashan. I can hear you making small holes in the silence rain. If I were deaf the pores of my skin would open to you and shut. And I should know you by the lick of you if I were blind. the steady drum-roll sound you make when the wind drops.

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Rain Poetry by Hone Tuwhare Music by Don McGlashan

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  1. Rain Poetry by Hone TuwhareMusic by Don McGlashan

  2. I can hear you making small holes in the silencerain

  3. If I were deafthe pores of my skinwould open to youand shut

  4. And Ishould know youby the lick of youif I were blind

  5. the steadydrum-roll soundyou makewhen the wind drops

  6. the somethingspecial smell of youwhen the sun cakesthe ground

  7. But if Ishould not hearsmell feel or seeyou

  8. you would stilldefine medisperse mewash over merain

  9. Hone Tuwhare • Born October 1922 • Died January 2008 • From Hokianga – Ngäpuhi, NgätiKorokoro, Tautahi, Uri o Hau, Te Popoto and Scottish Descent • Lived in Auckland and Wellington • Last 20 years in Otago – Kaka Point

  10. Hone Tuwhare • His first volume of poems, No Ordinary Sun, hit bookshelves in 1964. • It marked him not only as a working - class poet - he was a boilermaker before dedicating himself to poetry - but it was also the first book of poetry by a Maori writer in English. • The collection also signaled his intense and lasting interest in political issues as subject material. • No Ordinary Sun was a passionate cry against nuclear weapons, written in response to the atomic bomb destruction of Hiroshima in 1945.

  11. Hone Tuwhare • Other collections followed, as well as plays. Poetry collections included Mihi (1987), Short Back and Sideways (1992), Deep River Talk (1993), Shape-Shifter (1997), and Piggy-Back Moon (2002). • His last book was simply called ‘Oooooo….!!!’ (2005) • Artist friend Ralph Hotere illustrated four of Tuwhare's volumes of poetry. • Honorary doctorate from Otago University, 1998. • New Zealand’s second Te Mata Poet Laureate, 1999

  12. Hone Tuwhare • Engaging Students – Maori and non-Maori • Local • Relevant • Accessible • Funny • Resources are available • Bilingual– used Maori within his poetry • Walked in both worlds – Maori and Pakeha

  13. Hone Tuwhare “He is held in the highest esteem in both Maori and Pakeha culture. He writes from a Maori perspective, one that reveals his in-depth experience, understanding and knowledge of being Maori. Yet this conglomeration of attitudes and perceptions is universally identifiable. I believe all people can personally relate and respond to his writing. It is this skill that makes him so very special.” Waana Morrell Davis, Chairperson – Teo Maori Aotearoa

  14. Bibliography • Hunt, Janet., Tuwhare: A Bibliography, Random House, 1999 • Tuwhare – CD, Toi Maori Aotearoa, Various Artists, 2005 • Tuwhare, Hone., Mihi: Collected Poems, Penguin Books, 1987 • Tuwhare, Hone., Oooooo….!!! Steele Roberts Ltd, 2005 • http://www.honetuwhare.co.nz/ retrieved 23/07/08 • http://www.artsfoundation.org.nz/hone_tuwhare02.html/ retrieved 23/07/08

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