Hone Tuwhare

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Hone Tuwhare (born October 21, 1922 , † January 16, 2008 ) was an important New Zealand poet. He was a Māori and is closely associated with the Catlins in the Otago region, where he lived the later years of his life.

Early years

Hone Tuwhare was born in Kaikohe in the Northland region as a member of Iwi Nga Puhi ( Hapū Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Tautahi, Te Popoto, Uri-o-hau). After his mother's death, his family moved to Auckland , where he attended elementary schools in Avondale , Mangere and Ponsonby . He began an apprenticeship as a boiler maker at New Zealand Railways and attended evening classes in mathematics, technical drawing and commercial theory at Seddon Memorial Technical College in Auckland from 1939 to 1941 and at Otahuhu College in 1941 . Tuwhare spoke Māori until he was nine years old . His father, a good speaker and storyteller, encouraged his son in his interest in the written and spoken word, especially in the rhythms and imagery of the Old Testament .

Development as a poet

From 1939 Tuwhare began - encouraged by poets like RAK Mason - to write alongside his work as an apprentice at the Otahuhu railway workshops.

He began writing in earnest in 1956 after quitting a local branch of the Communist Party . His first, possibly best-known work, No Ordinary Sun , was published in 1964. It received widespread attention and was reprinted ten times over the next ten years. This made it one of the most widely read collections of poetry by an individual poet in New Zealand history.

When Tuwhare's first poems appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s, they were viewed as a fresh start in New Zealand poetry as they rose above the discussions and divisions between the 1930s and post-war generations. Much of the originality of his work was due to his specific perspective as a member of the Māori. The poems are characterized by the variety of their moods, the naturalness in which they alternate between formal and informal language, between humor and pathos, intimacy and controlled anger, but especially because of the loosely familiarity of the native with his New Zealand readers.

In the late 1970s Tuwhare became more involved in cultural and political Māori initiatives. At the same time his national and international reputation grew and he received invitations to China and Germany. In 1982 Tuwhare attended the annual conference on Commonwealth literatures in Kiel with the support of the Federal Press Office , the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the New Zealand Literary Fund . Tuwhare visited Berlin in 1985 with support from the DAAD . Tuwhare, who learned German and was fascinated by the sound and meaning of German words, wrote a series of poems with German-language titles and German-language passages. These include the poem 'Street scene from Olshausenstrasse, Kiel' and 'For me the bird sings beautifully'. A selection of his poems, translated by Irmela Brender , was published in two languages under the title What is Realer Than Dying as part of the Straelener Manuscript Edition in 1985. Tuwhare's poetry was also received in intercultural contexts of natural philosophy , for example at a German-New Zealand symposium entitled In die Natur, Ki te Wheiao, Into Nature, - Natural Philosophy and Natural Poetics in an Intercultural Perspective , which was held in 2011 at the Waikato- Tainui College for Research and Development , Hopuhopu took place. This applies in particular to Tuwhare's perception of nature as an occurrence that precedes and underlies individual, empirical cognition, as well as his praise of childlike observation of nature and mindfulness : "Hone Tuware's poems contain an abundance of profound epistemology and theories of nature that begin and end in the undisguised childish perception "(Norman Franke).

While his first poems continued to be published, new works were constantly being added. Tuwhare's play "In the Wilderness Without a Hat" was published in 1991. Three further collections of poetry followed: Short Back and Sideways: Poems & Prose (1992), Deep River Talk (1993) and Shape-Shifter (1997). In 1999 he became New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate (roughly New Zealand Poet Prince ), which resulted in Piggy-Back Moon being published in 2002 .

In 1992 the poet moved to Kaka Point in the Clutha District and many of his later poems reflect the scenery of the Catlins and the seafood available here. He had a close working relationship with the artist Ralph Hotere . Often both works related to each other.

Awards

In 1969 and again in 1974 he received the Robert Burns Fellowship from the University of Otago . In 1991 he received the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship , and in 1999 he was named New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate . At the end of his two-year term, he published Piggy Back Moon in 2001 , which was nominated for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards . Tuwhare was one of the ten greatest living New Zealand artists to be named the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists at a ceremony in 2003 .

In 2003 Tuwhare won one of the new $ 60,000 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement from the Prime Minister in the Poetry category for literary achievements in the field of poetry.

Tuwhare received an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of Auckland in 2005 . At the time of his death in 2008, he was considered "New Zealand's Most Deserved Māori Author".

In July 2010, The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust was established to preserve and promote its legacy.

Works

  • No Ordinary Sun , Auckland, Blackwood and Janet Paul, 1964
  • Come Rain Hail , Dunedin, University of Otago, 1970
  • Sapwood and Milk , Dunedin, Caveman Press, 1972
  • Something Nothing , Dunedin, Caveman Press, 1973
  • Making a Fist of It , Dunedin, Jackstraw Press, 1978
  • Selected Poems , Dunedin, McIndoe, 1980
  • Year of the Dog . Dunedin, McIndoe, 1982
  • What is more real than dying , Straelen, Straelener-Ms.-Verl, 1985
  • Mihi: Collected Poems , Auckland, Penguin, 1987
  • Short Back & Sideways , Auckland, Godwit, 1992
  • Deep River Talk: Collected Poems , Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994
  • Shape-Shifter , Wellington, Steele Roberts, 1997
  • Piggy-back Moon , Auckland, Godwit, 2001
  • Oooooo ...... !!! , Wellington, Steele Roberts, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Hunt, Hone Tuwhare: A Biography , Godwit, Auckland, 1998, p. 37.
  2. ↑ "Hone Tuwhare." Contemporary Poets , 7th edition, St. James Press 2001
  3. ↑ Norman Franke, 'Sternes Sprach' - Romantic motifs and eco-poetics in German, English and New Zealand poetry traditions. In: Norman Franke and Carl Mika (Ed.), In die Natur, Ki te Wheiao, Into Nature, - Natural Philosophy and Natural Poetics in Intercultural Perspective , Goethe-Institut, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-0-473-20077-0 , p 70
  4. ^ "Larger-than-life poet dies." Otago Daily Times , Jan. 17, 2008
  5. ^ H. Tuwhare Hotere , in Come Rain Hail , Dunedin: Caveman Press 1970.
  6. ^ "Maori poet Hone Tuwhare dies", New Zealand Herald January 16, 2008
  7. ^ Website of the Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust
personal data
SURNAME Tuwhare, Hone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1922
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2008