A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha From the calm of a

From the calm of a sleeping doe to the slow unwinding of the last bee on Earth

Together the authors trace their publishing and literary history from 1959 to 2018

based on battlefield experiences close to the front line

as well as over 100 new poems by writers including Albert Wendt

’ — Peter Simpson

A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha From the calm of aEminent writers think about a better world Sixty eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tpu krero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira krero embody the thuhu, the over arching horizontal ridge pole, of the shelter. In a series of rich conversations, those present discuss our world in the second decade of this