Haare Williams : words of a kaumātua / edited and introduced by Witi Ihimaera.

Kopara 28 -- He Waiata Pepeha 30 -- In the Beginning 31 -- Kei Runga Above 1 32 -- A Prophetic Land 33 -- In Praise of Land and Sea 35 -- A Homage to Tane 35 -- A Homage to Tangaroa 35 -- Ko Hiwarau te Maunga 36 -- Rain Poems 37 -- The Valley 37 -- Wai 37 -- E Ma 38 -- Ka Riri te Whanau a Tane 41 -- Tawhiri, Kaitiaki of Winds 42 -- e Ao .Maori 44 Ko te Tapu o te Whenua 45 -- The Songs of Tangaroa 46 -- Te Au o te Moana 46 -- Ra'iatea 46 -- Whakarongo ki to Au 47 -- He Kuaka Marangaranga 47 -- Hineahuone 48 -- Toro atu Taku Ringa 51 -- Tamariki Ma 52 -- Why Does a Leaf Turn? 54 -- Waikato Eternal 56 -- Raparapa 57 -- Taiawhiowhio 58 -- P RT TWo The Swaying Kattikalea 60 -- E Te Atua 62 -- Kei Runga Above 2 63 -- At the Place of Stacked Guns 64 -- Te Kooti 67 -- Rua, the Prophet 69 -- Hau Hau 72 -- Redemption is a Long Way Home 73 -- Paradox 76 -- Go East of Your Mountain 78 -- Kaua e Hoko Whenua 80 -- Kaumatua 81 -- Women Heroes 83 -- The Art of the Oral Storyteller (An Oral Transcript) 85 -- Ka Tangi to Pere 97 -- Two Glimpses of Koro Rimaha 99 -- The Dream Spinner 99 -- Bundles of RaupO 100 -- The Day the World Changed 102 -- Two Poems of Nani Wai 105 -- Koha 105 -- E Pii, e Paa 106 -- Mdtauranga 107 -- Shearing Song 109 -- Matauri Bay 113 -- Kamara 113 -- Three Times a Day 114 -- Te Kaupapa o Te Marae 115 -- He KOtuku Rerenga Tahi 118 -- Te Rerenga Wairua The Way the Spirits Go 119 -- Tuppence 121 -- Blue 122 -- Remember 124 -- Kua Rongo ake Au 1 125 -- Beating Against the Wind 130 -- Karakia 132 -- HAARE WILLIAMS: THE INTERVIEW 133 -- Repartee 136 -- The Pott Reorients Himself from a Hill in Tamaki Makaurau 138 -- Waahi The Huntly Power Station 140 -- Patches Hide No Scars 141 -- Calvaria 142 -- Te Ao Orokohanga He Patere 144 -- Keep the revolution going (Haare, talking off the cuff to Police Staff) 146 -- The Hawke of Takaparawhau 149 -- Ranginui 150 -- Kukume 151 -- At Four This Morning 152 -- 20 Great South Road 154 -- Hamiora Pere 156 -- Bloody Nails of Calvary 157 -- Esther 159 -- Waitangi Poems 162 -- A Rose by Any Other Name' 162 -- White Curl 162 -- Five Nations Crossing the Bridge 163 -- Year of the Waka 1990 165 -- A Prayer 166 -- Flikoi Ki Waitangi 167 -- Builder of People and Waka 168 -- On the Word 'Pakeha' 169 -- Waitangi Update, 2013 172 -- Partnership Restoration -- Te Whakahou 175 -- Sing, Bellbird 176 -- Puakina The Spoken Word 178 -- TE AO KANAPA (A Memoir) 179 -- Moko 189 -- Kua Rongo ake Au 2 190 -- Love poems 194 -- Woman 194 -- Wahine toa 194 -- Moves 195 -- Hinekura 196 -- What is maori education or matauranga maori? 197 -- Nga patai 200 -- Banish the word 208 -- Kauri 214 -- For once then I am 216 -- Contemplation 217 -- Taku hu my shoe 218 -- Bird songs 220 -- Te kohanga 220 -- Fantail 221 -- He iti kopara noa 222 -- He kuaka 222 -- Hiwarau 223 -- The korimako and the flax flower 224 -- Fantail 2 225 -- Tui-tui-tuitui-A 226 -- At the white sands of Parengarenga 227 -- A prayer for graduation 230 -- Koru 232 -- Dear te Makahi Robert 233 -- Nga Tamariki 236 -- Nga tamariki 236 -- Tell me 236 -- Give 237 -- Little matariki 238 -- Dr. Seuss 238 -- Aroha 239 -- The seven stars of matariki 240 -- Culture 242 -- Weherua 243 -- Te wherowhero first maori king 244 -- Pounamu 245 -- Poroporoaki 246 -- E tu i mua o te ra 247.

A kaumatua &– an elder of the Māori people &– reflects in poetry and prose on his journey from te ao Māori on the East Coast to contemporary Auckland, New Zealand. Ko te kopara anake e tarere ki te tihi o te makauri. Oti rawa!