John Puhiatau Pule

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Publications and Biography  

• NZ Literature File at AU
• NZ Book Council Writer Files

Gallery

• A selection of book covers and comment by John Pule
• Drawings from Death of a God ( Auckland Art Gallery)
• Lithographs from 100 Love Poems (nzepc/Gow Langsford)

On-line works

From The Bond of Time (Fragrance on Earth, 1985/Pacific Writing Forum, 1998)

• Dolphins, nectarines and turtles
• The craft of China, jade screen
• The way the islands are wrecked

From ‘Thirty Songs of Love and Life by the Nineteenth-Century Poet Tomai, of Liku’ in The Shark That Ate the Sun (Penguin, 1992)

• your hair is black and bright
• while our people are fighting
• when your father chased me from your window
• I live apart from my family
• As I walked out of the forest one night
• The new missionary and his wife
• Once again I meet the missionary’s wife
• In 1861 when the Rev. W.G. Lawes arrived

From Tagata Kapakiloi / Restless People (Pohutukawa, 2004)

• Fenonga Kia Koe
• Ka hola
• Mai
• Mo e
• Loto

From 100 Love Poems (Earl of Seacliff, 2005)

• The sun is happy that a sparrow loves its life
• Each wave would mean a great journey
• I need to tell you that I want to live
• Life will not end in words or in the many voices
• Looking at rain too long has given me eternity
• Many times at night I sit up and watch you sleep
• So when the future is dormant I dream
• Afraid to sleep at night I held onto you
• Boats in their moorings lean towards my heart
• Do not step into the altrical room behind
• Embracing the dream that lives in a red airplane
• First you changed the leucocytes inside your house
• Follow me to a circle made of poenamu
• I am confused which shadow is now my door
• I am running through the stars and a constellation
• I fucked you so hard that an infectious disease
• Inside its voice only festivals could be heard
• Let’s see now
• Then if I come out of this madness
• Where do you live?
• Not every angel wants to know my vices
• I know of a dream full of trees

Uncollected poems

• 14 I woke up to find a butterfly across your mouth (nzepc/Whetu Moana)
• Piwhane – Spirits Bay 1988 (Trout 9)
  

Prose by John Pule

• Restless Spirit, from The Shark That Ate the Sun / Ko e M­āgo ne Kai e Lā (nzepc/Penguin)
• Death of a God, Plants, Fragrance, Fashion, Let’s Dance, from Burn My Head in Heaven / Tugi e Ulu haaku he Langi (nzepc/Penguin)

About John Pule

• David Eggleton, John Pule and the psychic territory of Polynesia (nzepc/Art NZ 99)
• Peter Simpson, John Pule’s Epic of Migration (nzepc/Landfall 196)
• Nicholas Thomas, from The Savage Art of Hiapo
  

Audio

From the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive

• Ka hola
    lo-fi (rm : 720KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 2.7MB)
• Mai
    lo-fi (rm : 400KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 1.6MB)
• Mo e
    lo-fi (rm : 100KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 750KB)
• Loto
    lo-fi (rm : 900KB, streaming)
    hi-fi (mp3 : 3.5MB)

Links

• John Pule at Gow Langsford Gallery  
• John Pule at Jonathon Smart Gallery
• John Pule at Roemeerapotheke Gallery
• John Pule at the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
• 2000 University of Auckland Literary Fellowship  
• Peter Simpson, Adornment as Re-Appropriation: The Art of Sofia Tekela-Smith (Art NZ 114)

John Pule, Loto (extract)Auckland CBD, February-March 2005
Credit: Deborah Smith

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Last updated 30 September, 2005