Shout Ha! to the Sky
Shout Ha! to the Sky explores history and contemporary life from a Maori person’s perspective, and seeks to restore possibilities removed through the forces of colonialism. The poetry is intimate, wry, funny, angry and always loving. It weaves into and dialogues with multi-genre work by a range of Pacific authors such as Anne Salmond, Albert Wendt, Haunani-Kay Trask, Witi Ihimaera, and the late Hone Tuwhare, as well as writing from outside the Pacific by Anna Seward, W.B.Yeats, Ezra Pound, Keats, Vijay Seshadri, Dante Alighieri.
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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.
