Cassino City of Martyrs / Citta Martire
Cassino: City of Martyrs/Città Martire is a collection of poetry that follows the author's thoughts as he travels to the Italian cities his grandfather fought in during the Second World War.
It also muses on questions of life and death, cosmology and the status of Maori in New Zealand and contains literary references to poets, writers, artists and philosophers and their works.
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Robert SullivanRobert Sullivan (Ngā Puhi/Kai Tahu/Ngāti Raukawa and Galway Irish) appears in Best New Zealand Poems 2002, 2005, 2007, and coedited with Anne Kennedy Best New Zealand Poems 2006 . Internationally, his poetry appears in Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Berkeley Poetry Review, Mānoa, and Moving Worlds. He won several New Zealand literary awards for his poetry, children's writing and editing. His poetry collections include Star Waka, Captain Cook in the Underworld, Voice Carried My Family, and in press, Shout Ha! to the Sky (Salt Publishing, UK). He co-edited Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri. His scholarly work appears in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Ka Mate Ka Ora: a New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics, Landfall, the monograph Figuring the Pacific, and The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (forthcoming). He has recently read and lectured in New Delhi at the Chotro Indigenous Peoples Conference, at UC Berkeley, at the University of Hong Kong, at Goethe University in Frankfurt, and at UCLA.
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Cassino: City of Martyrs/Città Martire is a collection of poetry that follows the author's thoughts as he travels to the Italian cities his grandfather fought in during the Second World War.
It also muses on questions of life and death, cosmology and the status of Maori in New Zealand and contains literary references to poets, writers, artists and philosophers and their works.