Hone Tuwhare

Thursday 23rd 2020

Hone Tuwhare
By Ross Calman



In this story there’s a man called Hone Tuwhare it also says in this story that he was one of New Zealand’s best known poets of Nga puhi descent. Unfortunately when Hone Tuwhare was nine his mother had died so he moved in with his father to Auckland, it says that he was mostly well often called the “The People's Poets”.

He got his first collection of poetry No Ordinary sun was published in 1964 and has became one of New Zealand’s best and most popular poetry collections, from the 1970’s onwards Hone Tuwhare became involved in Maori Artists he also visited hundreds of schools just to encourage young people to write and enjoy poetry after that he received many awards and two honorary doctorates for his writing.

Now Hone Tuwhare spent his last sixteen years of living in a small crib in the seaside community of KaKa point, South Dunedin “Rain” is one of his best-loved poems.

Poetry “words that can be shared songs that can be shared”
One of Hones poems he has written about is called
Papa-tu-a-Nuku (Earth Mother)
We are stroking, caressing the spine
of the land.
We are massaging the ricked
back of the land
with our sore but ever-loving feet:
hell, she loves it!
Squirming, the land wiggles
in delight.
We love her.
Hone Tuwhare was born on 21st Oct 1992 and sadly passed away on 16 Jan 2008 

Then end

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