Tayi Tibble

is a New Zealand poet. Her poetry reflects Māori culture and her own family history. Her first collection of poetry, Poūkahangatus, received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and was published in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2022.

Nation Poetry

Kehua / I used to want to be the bait that caught Te Ika Kehua / I used to want to be the bait that caught Te Ika

  I lost my nerve for spirits when I was sixteen. Spent that whole spring playing chicken and betraying my grandparents’ liquor cabinets for homies who were too cool to say th…

Nov 10, 2022 / Poems / Tayi Tibble

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