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New Zealand has suffered another great loss with the death of poet and playwright Hōne Tūwhare.

Tūwhare’s debut collection, No ordinary sun (1964), was the first book of poetry by a Māori writer in English. The 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand described him as ‘the only modern Māori poet’. Whether or not that was strictly true at the time, thankfully it is not so now, and Tūwhare and his writing has inspired many New Zealand poets, both Māori and Pākehā.

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