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Hone Tuwhare

Hone Tuwhare
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Hone Tuwhare
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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...

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Date created
1996
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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/hone-tuwhare-1996
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