The Artist
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Artist
By (Author) Ruby Solly
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press
11th May 2023
New Zealand
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
821.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 160mm, Height 230mm
Description
In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, twins with otherworldly ways are born to a stone carver and his wife. As they grow into themselves, the landscape and its histories will rise up to meet them and change their whnau forever. Cave art leaps from walls, pounamu birds sing, legends become reality, and history becomes the present in this verse novel by Ruby Solly (Waitaha, Kti Mmoe, Ki Tahu). The Artist brings to life the histories of our great Southern iwi through the whakapapa of its characters and the rich world they and their ancestors call their trakawaewaetheir place to stand, their place to sing.
Author Bio
Ruby Solly (Ki Tahu, Waitaha, Kti Mmoe) is a writer, musician and taonga poro practitioner living in Pneke. Her first book, Tku Pp, was published in 2021 and longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She has had poetry published in Aotearoa, Australia, America and Antarctica. In 2020 she released her debut album, Pneke, and in 2021, Bird Like Men, as part of the group Tararua. She is currently completing a PhD in public health, focusing on the use of taonga poro in hauora Mori.
