Bond of Time

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First published in a limited edition in 1985, John Pule's epic love poem "The Bond of Time" is now available in a new edition from Canterbury University Press. 'A net of words across the Pacific ...The Bond of Time is a vast, surreal cornucopia of images stretching over 88 ages, a non-lineal narrative, bursting at its seams into every successive five-lined unrhymed stanza, each self-contained but caught in the net of Pule's ravishing imagination. [...] It seems obvious that while a human relationship is signaled from the very beginning and pursued through dark and light along the poem's entire trajectory, no one person could be the sole object of the poet's attention and passion - this is a love letter to a sea of islands, to Niue and the entire Pacific.' - From the Introduction by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

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John Puhiatau Pule is a novelist, a poet, and an artist. He is the author of the novels Burn My Head in Heaven and The Shark That Ate the Sun. He was awarded the Arts foundation of New Zealand Laureate in 2004 and more recently he was Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A major monograph, Hauaga--the Art of John Pule, was published in 2010 to coincide with the survey exhibition presented by City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand.