Flow: Whanganui River Poems

Synopsis

Huihui: To Gather. Like Water Does. Wherever Bodies Of Water Are, People Settle And Stories Collect. Six Generations Of Poet Airini Beautrais' Family Have Lived Near The Whanganui River, The Restless, All-encompassing Figure At The Heart Of Flow, Her Fourth Collection. Flow Is A Brilliant Polyphony Of Stories - Large, Small, Geological, Ecological, And Human - That Draw On Many Forms And Voices And Move Through Various Stages Of Human Settlement Up To The Present Day. In March 2017, In A World First, The Whanganui River Was Granted The Status Of Legal Personhood. 'this Remarkable Sequence Winds And Eddies Like The Whanganui River, Filtering The Region's Many Histories Into Something Rich And Swimmable. Is Verse The Future Of History?' - James Brown.--inside Front Cover. I. Catchment -- Confluence: Taumarunui, 2013 -- Plotlines: Waimarino, 2013 -- Clear Away: Ōrākau, 1864 -- Hat On A Map: Te Rohe Pōtae, 1870s -- Pigs, Potatoes: Te Kumi, 1883 -- A Living Sea: Te Nehenehenui, 1884 -- First Sod Of The Main Trunk Line: Pūniu, 1885 -- Surveyor's Grave: Tāngarākau, 1893 -- Into The Ground: Kākahi, 1905 -- Sound The Whistle: Manunui, 1907 -- Inroads: Ōhura, 1907 -- Roads: Central Volcanic Plateau, 2013 -- Tree-oh!: Kākahi, 1914 -- Only Dancing: Kākahi, 1916 -- That Winter: Ōngarue, 1923 -- The Road Out Of Here: Upper Retaruke, 1927 -- Falling Branch: Manunui, 1928 -- Out Of The Ground: Waimiha, 1936 -- Three Days: Horokino, 1936 -- Up To Their Necks: Tokirima, 1940 -- Eggs For An Army: Ōngarue, 1940s -- Forgotten World: State Highway 43, 2014 -- What Sport Tonight: Ōngarue, 1953 -- Cutting Down King Mahuta: Ōngarue, 1950s -- Bush Tram: Ōngarue, 1955 -- Parts Shed: Pureora, 1950s -- This'll Do Me: Ōngarue, 1962 --^ Oil Drill: Ōtunui, 1966 -- Final Whistle: Ōngarue, 1966 -- Treetops: Pureora, 1978 -- Buried Forest: Pureora, 1983 -- Tributaries: Taumarunui To Piropiro, 2014 -- Huihui: Taumarunui, 2014 -- Ii. A Body Of Water -- Puanga -- Snow -- Seed -- Flow -- Kākahi -- Western Diversion -- Whio -- Map-making -- Shingle Beach -- Trout -- Grayling -- Spring: Black, Red And White -- Kōura -- Whirlpool -- Dynamite -- Fire -- Hīnaki -- Tuna -- Foundlings -- Lamprey -- Moutoa -- Summer -- Girl With Baby In A Cornfield -- Pandora's Box -- Kauarapaoa -- Children In The Mud -- Wattlebirds -- Pākaitore -- Flood -- Girl With Oranges -- Spoonbill -- Listen -- Autumn -- Iii. The Moving Sand -- Geology -- The Long Wait -- Surprise -- Beachcombing Along The Tidal Reaches -- Lieutenant -- Open Country -- Constable -- Eunice -- Pechakucha -- Mrs Field -- Shifting Sand -- The Jail House -- Holiday Park -- Stormbird -- Bluffs -- Heads Road -- Blood And Sand --^ Gathering The Berries Of Pimelea Turakina -- Meat Workers -- Port Bowen -- Glow In The Dark -- Longshore Drift -- The Sandhill -- Observatory -- Dead Port -- Cyrena -- Control -- Walking The Dog -- The Long Wait Ii -- South Beach Café -- Grace Dent -- Pour -- North Mole. Airini Beautrais. Includes Bibliographical References.