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Sunday 29 August 2021
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Sunday 1 August 2021
Given Words – NOHO MAI – National Poetry Day
This year we have chosen five words from the poetry film NOHO MAI ('Sit Here'). The poem is by Peta-Maria Tunui and both the poem and film were created as part of a te reo poetry film workshop we ran during the first lockdown last year in both Spain and New Zealand. Noho Mai has been selected for festivals in Aotearoa, Germany, Ireland, Spain, the USA and Greece. You can read more about Noho Mai's creation and journey in Love in the Time of Covid.
And the five words are…
pō / dusk
hau / breath
tūpuna / ancestors
hiki / raise
karoro / black-backed gull
We invite you to write a poem which includes the five words and send it to us before midnight on 27 August, National Poetry Day. Poems can be written in English, te reo Māori, or a mixture of the two, as long as the five words are included in either language. Please see the full rules below.
We will award prizes for the Best Poem and the Best Poem by Under-16s. The winners will receive books courtesy of Mākaro Press and The Cuba Press (see below).
We invite you to watch Noho Mai:
‘Mō koutou e noho tāwhiti ana i te kainga, mō koutou anō te ahi kā.’
The rules:
– Poems can be in te reo Māori or English (or a mixture). We would appreciate a translation in English if possible.
– We understand the words in te reo Māori have alternative meanings from the English words and you are free to interpret each te reo kupu as you wish, but in English for example: dusk cannot be changed to night.
– The theme is up to you.
– The poem must include the five words.
– black-backed gull is considered as one word and cannot be separated.
– The words can be in any order.
– You may change the tense of verbs and change nouns between plural and singular.
– Maximum length 200 words.
– Entry is free and open to all NZ citizens and residents.
– Only one poem per person.
– Poems by under-16s must also include the age of the poet. We would prefer parents or teachers to send the poem on the child's behalf.
– FOR TEACHERS: You are very welcome to get your classes to participate, but please help us out by only sending in a selection of up to 10 of the best poems from your students. We have prepared a lesson plan for teachers.
– Participation means you allow us to reproduce your poem on Given Words.
– The deadline for entry is midnight on 27 August 2021.
– We understand the words in te reo Māori have alternative meanings from the English words and you are free to interpret each te reo kupu as you wish, but in English for example: dusk cannot be changed to night.
– The theme is up to you.
– The poem must include the five words.
– black-backed gull is considered as one word and cannot be separated.
– The words can be in any order.
– You may change the tense of verbs and change nouns between plural and singular.
– Maximum length 200 words.
– Entry is free and open to all NZ citizens and residents.
– Only one poem per person.
– Poems by under-16s must also include the age of the poet. We would prefer parents or teachers to send the poem on the child's behalf.
– FOR TEACHERS: You are very welcome to get your classes to participate, but please help us out by only sending in a selection of up to 10 of the best poems from your students. We have prepared a lesson plan for teachers.
– Participation means you allow us to reproduce your poem on Given Words.
– The deadline for entry is midnight on 27 August 2021.
Submit your poem by email including your full name and town of residence to: nzgivenwords@gmail.com
To receive updates about the competition please subscribe to our newsletter here. We only send emails related with this competition and you can easily opt out at any time.
Winning poems will be selected by Charles Olsen, Mikaela Nyman, Michael Todd and with Peta-Mari Tunui providing advice on poems in te reo Māori.
Mikaela Nyman is a Kiwi Finn born on the Åland Islands in Finland and living in New Zealand. Four years in Vanuatu, a sister’s death and a cyclone (TC Pam in 2015) changed her life. Her PhD research focuses on creative writing, rhetorical alliance and Ni-Vanuatu women’s voices. Her first novel Sado (2020) is set in Vanuatu. Her first poetry collection, När vändkrets läggs mot vändkrets, was published in Finland in 2019 and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2020. It connects the islands of her heart: the Åland Islands, Vanuatu and New Zealand. She collaborated with Ni-Vanuatu writers and edited, alongside Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, Sista Stanap Strong: A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology (2021) to commemorate Vanuatu’s 40th independence anniversary.
Michael (Meeka) Todd is a second-year MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Colorado State University where they teach composition and rhetoric, as well as work as an editorial assistant for Colorado Review. Their recent words have appeared in Hippocampus and Foglifter Press’s anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart.
Peta-Maria Tunui is an Aotearoa poet and creative who writes to express the beauty and pain of discovering and re-discovering her identity and connection as a proud wahine Māori. She has published poetry in Eat Your Words (2010), performed with In*ter*is*land Collective in the Mana Moana/Mana Wāhine exhibition, and performed collaborative works for Musee du Quai Branley during the Oceania exhibition.
Charles Olsen (Nelson, 1969) has published two collections of poetry, Sr Citizen and Antípodas. In 2017 he was awarded the XIII distinction Poetas de Otros Mundos by the Fondo Poético Internacional, in Spain, in recognition of the high quality of his poetic oeuvre. His poetry films have been featured in Moving Poems, Poetry Film Live, Atticus Review, Blackmail Press and at international poetry film festivals. In 2018 he was awarded the III Antonio Machado Poetry Residency in Segovia and Soria and together with the Colombian writer Lilián Pallares he has recently completed a Visual Artists Residency in the Matadero Centre for Contemporary Creation, Madrid, in 2020-21. He has contributed essays to The Poetics of Poetry Film, Bristol: Intellect Books, S. Tremlett (ed).|
About the prizes: The winner of Best Poem will receive Auē by Becky Manawatu and Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue by John Tāne Christeller, courtesy of Mākaro Press and The Cuba Press respectively. |
The winner of Best Poem by Under-16s will receive Des O'Leary's Slice of Heaven from Mākaro Press and the sequel, Under the Radar, just published by The Cuba Press. |
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