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  • The Adventures of Vela

    by Albert Wendt ...
    Journey through the many stories and worlds of the immortal Vela - Vela, so red and ugly at birth they called him the Cooked; Vela the lonely admirer of pigs and the connoisseur of feet; Vela the lover of song maker Mulialofa the Boneman. Follow him down through the centuries on his travels, encountering the single-minded society of the Tagata-Nei and the Smellocracy of Olfact. Accompany him, too, ... Read more

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  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    by Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel ...
    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... Read more

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  • Breaking Connections

    by Albert Wendt ...
    A dynamic group has emerged in Auckland whose members refer to themselves as the Tribe. Mainly Polynesian, they grow up together, rise from poverty and become successful professionals, bound by love and fierce loyalty. At the centre, is Aaron, who lives at the edge of danger, shady dealings and self-destruction. When Daniel, receives a call in Hawaii telling him that Aaron has been killed, he ... Read more

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  • Ancestry

    by Albert Wendt ...
    Albert Wendt's new collection of short stories explores the nature of family, tradition and culture through the eyes of those seemingly caught between the realities of modern contemporary life and the ancestral ties of their heritage. With a deft touch, he draws us into his characters' lives and with equal parts wisdom and wit, he exposes them to us. This is a masterful meditation on the ties that ... Read more

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  • The Songmaker's Chair

    by Albert Wendt ...
    The Songmaker's Chair tells of a Samoan family, the Aiga Sa Peseola, who have been in Auckland since the 1950s. Over three generations the family have intermarried with Maori and Pakeha to develop what they refer to as the Peseola Way. Central to that Way is the magnificent Polynesian exploration and settlement of the Pacific, and a songmaking tradition which Peseola Olaga, the family patriarch ... Read more

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  • Photographs

    Poems by Albert Wendt

    by Albert Wendt ...
    In Albert Wendt's new poems, his first collection for over a decade, snapshots of the close and familiar contrast with strange and mythical sequences from a vast Pacific epic in progress and a vivid impressionistic montage of global travel in the late twentieth century. The rich diversity and range of Photographs is astonishing, as this complex writer moves with ease and fluency from ancient ... Read more

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  • Mauri Ola

    Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English

    Edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan ...
    Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians. The new book includes poetry written over the last 25 years by more than 80 writers from Aotearoa, Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti and Rotuma – some living in these islands and some ... Read more

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  • From Manoa to a Ponsonby Garden

    by Albert Wendt ...
    From the valleys of Hawaii to the seasons of a garden in Auckland, this extraordinary offering of poems explores a variety of themes. Though hips need replacing, poets grow older, tsunamis destroy, and friends slip away, a spirit of renewal and humor pervades the collection. Alert and full of love, this is a moving and compelling book by a celebrated Pacific writer. ... Read more

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  • Nuanua

    Pacific Writing in English since 1980

    Edited by Albert Wendt ...
    Edited by Albert Wendt and copublished the University of Hawaii Press, Nuanua is an anthology of short stories, extracts from novels, and poems written since 1980 in the Pacific Islands. It remains an essential resource for teachers of Pacific literature. ... Read more

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  • The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories

    by Albert Wendt ...
    A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally. This collection brings together his classic stories published in the Flying-Fox in a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Ocean of Wonder

    The Fantastic in the Pacific

    by Māhealani Ahia, Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Sarahina Sabrina Birk, Elizabeth Ua Ceallaigh Bowman, Marie Alohalani Brown, Alexander Casey, Ra’i Chaze, Laura De La Vega, Sosthène Desanges, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, Solomon Enos, Pono Fernandez, Nicole Ku‘uleinapuananioliko‘awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado, Sofia Kaleomālie Furtado, Patricia Grace, Andrea Nicole Grajek, Professor Vilsoni Hereniko, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Kahala Johnson, Robyn Kahukiwa, Emelihter Kihleng, Aaron Ki‘ilau, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Sloane Leong, Caryn Lesuma, Nai‘a-Ulumaimalu Lewis, Tina Makereti, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Mahinatea Shea McCallum, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Kapili‘ula Naehu-Ramos, Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng, Lehua Parker, Craig Santos Perez, John Pule, Peter Rawlingson, Marama Salsano, Lyz Soto, Terisa Siagatonu, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Tiare Ribeaux, Robert Sullivan, Nicholas Thomas, Kristina R. Togafau, Briana Koani U‘u, Albert Wendt, Steven Winduo, Brittany Winland, Qianqian Ye ...
    An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater

    A Writer’s Early Life

    by Albert Wendt ...
    Series Book 34 - BWB Texts
    ‘The Vaipe has the Roman Catholic Cathedral at its western boundary, the court and police station to the east, the market and harbour in front, and the swamps behind it. These are convenient boundaries that I’ve turned into a symbolic fence for the marvellous world of the Deadwater.’Albert Wendt crosses into new and deeply personal territory in this stirring BWB Text. Returning to his boyhood in ... Read more

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