Voyagers

Born in New Zealand in 1953 into the Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe tribe, Brian lives in Rotorua. He has just completed a historical play/trilogy (A Mutiny Stripped, Boultbee, Hiroki’s Song) set in the South Island and is also working on a book about the play, Maranga Mai, a seminal work of Maori theatre, 1980–81, which he directed, co-wrote and acted in.

 
tony

tony it’s me at the gate
with some mussels &
a dozen beer in a crate.
i see a te whiti miniature
on the easel,
your own body dipped in ink
from samoa.
i’m with you tony!
on a cliff face at muriwai
with emily karaka in a storm
& finally
at the coffin
alan is kissing your face
(makeup running all over the place)
just as you kissed phil clairmont’s eyes
back then.
another coffin,
same passion.

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Last updated 04 July, 2004