{"product_id":"pepeha-portal","title":"Pepeha Portal","description":"\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"\u003eshining like light on water\u003cbr\u003ea path for the next\u003cbr\u003egeneration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"\u003eFrom ‘Intonation’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePepeha Portal\u003c\/em\u003e is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi Tahu identity, the collection chronicles a homecoming and offers a moving account of memory, place and connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Tikao left the city after the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. In 2023 she was awarded the Ursula Bethell Residency at the University of Canterbury and returned to live in a place that was both deeply familiar and astonishingly new. Written largely during this period, \u003cem\u003ePepeha Portal\u003c\/em\u003e is shaped by stories embedded in the landscape – many long erased by colonialism and only recently exposed by cultural, as much as geological, shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to suburban landscapes and tīpuna places, personal memory and ancestral voice, \u003cem\u003ePepeha Portal\u003c\/em\u003e considers how language, whakapapa and whenua act as portals to belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘There’s breathtaking scope and emotional depth in this collection, so much whakapapa wisdom, and finely hued poetry. He taoka toikupu.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e– Robert Sullivan, New Zealand Poet Laureate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Pepeha Portal","offer_id":45700785569989,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/9781991348197-scaled.jpg?v=1782945112","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/pepeha-portal","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}