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Exploring Multicultural Poetry - Book 2

Accessible, meaningful activities to inspire young poets and poetry readers

Designed to make poetry accessible to everyone, Exploring Multicultural Poetry - Book 2 follows on from Book 1. It showcases seventeen poems by leading international poets who reflect the increasingly diverse nature of the societies of Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America and Oceania. Building from each poem, Vaughan Rapatahana has written activities to develop students' understanding and evaluation of the poems. This resource then encourages and guides students in writing their own poetry.

Ages: 10-13 | Pages: 76 | Code: 51215 | ISBN: 9781776558919

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Vaughan Rapatahana

Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ätiawa) commutes between homes in Hong Kong, Philippines, and Aotearoa New Zealand. He is widely published across several genre in both his main languages, te reo Mäori and English and his work has been translated into Bahasa Malaysia, Italian, French, Mandarin, Romanian, Spanish.

He earned a Ph. D from the University of Auckland with a thesis about Colin Wilson and writes extensively about Wilson. Rapatahana is a critic of the agencies of English language proliferation and the consequent decimation of indigenous tongues, inaugurating and co-editing English language as Hydra and Why English? Confronting the Hydra (Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK, 2012 and 2016).

He is also a poet, with eight collections published in Hong Kong SAR; Macau; Philippines; USA; England; France, India, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Atonement (UST Press, Manila) was nominated for a National Book Award in Philippines (2016); he won the inaugural Proverse Poetry Prize the same year; and was included in Best New Zealand Poems (2017).

In July 2018, he participated in the Hauterives Literary Festival in France. In September 2019, he participated in the World Poetry Recital Night, in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. In October 2019, he participated in the Poetry International Festival at The Southbank Centre, London. He also appeared at the Medellin Poetry Festival in Colombia during August 2021,

Rapatahana is one of the few World authors who consistently writes in and is published in te reo Mäori (the Mäori language). It is his mission to continue to do so and to push for a far wider recognition of the need to write and to be published in this tongue.

New Zealand Book Council Writers File is https://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/rapatahana-vaugh

Contents

Introduction4
1. An Evening Walk – Akin Jeje7
2. Teaching – Lynley Edmeades10
3. Carpenter to Apprentice – Eddie Tay13
4. Love – Chris McCabe16
5. There I will meet you – Iona Winter19
6. The Alphabet of Fish – Samuel Watson22
7. We Aim Ourselves – Rossanee Nurfarida (translator Plaifon Parama)25
8. the moon sails through the cabbage tree – Norman P Franke29
9. Migrating Drums – Ayo Ayoola-Amale33
10. There is no love – Fernando Rendón36
11. An Evening – Keshab Sigdel39
12. When the Moon Died – Laura Tohe43
13. My body is made of many – Hana Pera Aoake46
14. Bamboozled – Dave McKirdy49
15. In Guang Zhou I Smell a Familiar Hurricane – Reid Mitchell52
16. Powhiri – Jacqueline Carter55
17. His Majesty O'Keefe – Gina Cole58
Suggested answers63
About the poets74

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