View from Lake Ferry, North Island of Aeotearoa/New Zealand, across Cook Strait to the Kaikoras in the South Island.xxviii Hooked
some say the South Island
is a waka
the North Island is a fish
and the Cook Strait cable (I reckon)
is the only link between them.
p32
Star Waka by Robert Sullivan,
Auckland University Press,1999. ISBN 1 86940 213 8
In the NOTE at the begining of "Star Waka" Robert Sullivan said: "I wrote Star Waka with some threads to it: that each poem must have a star, a waka or the ocean. This sequence is like a waka, members of the crew change, the rhythm and the view changes - it is subject to the laws of nature......
For references to Maori mythology see Margaret Orbell's Encyclopedia of Maori Mythology. Other references are built into the text."
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