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- Title
- Hone Tuwhare
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
Gaylene Preston's documentary offers a glimpse into the life, art, and cheeky-as-a-kaka style of late Kiwi poet, Hone Tuwhare. The man with "the big rubber face" (as poet Glenn Colquhoun put it) is seen at home and travelling the country reading his work; polishing a new love poem; visiting old drinking haunts; reading to entranced students; and offering thoughts on everything from The Bible to Karl Marx's love life. He reads some of his best-known poems, including Rain and No Ordinary Sun. R...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1996
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/hone-tuwhare-1996
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- poetry / poet / māori artists / nz poetry / nz writers / literature / biography / nz on air / new zealand on air / sunset / kaka point / kaka point store / poem / up the lazy river / catlins / red rose / poetry reading / reading / verse / poverty / working class / māori / tradition / whare / romance / romantic / love poem / song / wellington / te whanganui-a-tara / germaine greer / lover / lovers / writer / published writer / published author / published / publisher / welding / weld / auckland / tāmaki makaurau / nuclear testing / nuclear bomb / bomb testing / subversive / blackwood paul / bookseller / the listener / interview / shakespeare / waiata / countryside / plains / balclutha / arohanui / church / presbyterian church / sea / ocean / philosophy / karl marx / ralph hotere / rain / coastline / waves / sing / death / dunedin / ōtepoti / no other lips / nuclear-free pacific / paul's books / glennis woods / norman woods
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