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Tayi Tibble

Rangikura

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ISBN:
9781776564248

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June 2021

Longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2022

 

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself

that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see me

on certain nights in certain lights when the planets

lined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moon

was the correct hue.

Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble.

These poems live in the space between the end of the world and a new day. They ask us to think about our relationship to desire and exploitation. They are both nostalgic for, and exhausted by, the pursuit of an endless summer.

'As well as displaying her trademark “fiery”, incendiary and politically-aware qualities, Rangikura also reveals pain and vulnerability, and some sections of the book moved me not to awe or even anger, but to tears. To read Rangikura is to marvel at Tibble’s immense skill with words and cry for all that we still have to carry.' —Kiri Piahana-Wong, Kete Books

'These poems are elegies to a trauma so large that it can only be comprehended in small sips and the odd, sardonic, witchy cackle.' —Faith Wilson, The Spinoff

‘The intricate politics woven into Tibble’s poetry give her writing strength and purpose.’ —Winnie Siulolovao Dunn, Cordite Poetry Review

‘Tibble speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality.’ —Hinemoana Baker

‘It demonstrates the power of all paradigm-shifting books – which is to fold up previously knotty stumbling blocks like they are furniture left out in the rain, and then replace it with an enlarged space.’ —John Freeman, LitHub

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995. Her first book, Poūkahangatus (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2018), won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award in 2019. Her second, Rangikura (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2021), was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in 2022. Poūkahangatus and Rangikura are also published by Knopf in the US and Penguin in the UK. Tayi's work is widely anthologised and has appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Granta Magazine, Alta Journal, Literary Hub, and The New Yorker.

Cover: Xoë Hall, xoehall.com

Paperback, 210x160 mm, 96 pages

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