Hinemoana Baker
Author

Poems

dismantling the crane english

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the fossils english

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nanna english

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what the destination has to offer english

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our children have run away to fiji english

Last Born english

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Talk english

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Liver english

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He Kaputī english

Tinkerbell english

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Hinemoana Baker
Author

About

* 19.03.1968, Christchurch, New Zealand
lives in: Paekākāriki, Germany

Hinemoana Baker was born in 1968 in Christchurch (New Zealand) and grew up in Whakatane and Nelson. She has tribal connections ranging from Otakou Peninsula to the Horowhenua and Maunga Taranaki.

She is a poet, musician and playwright. Her writing has featured in anthologies and literary journals, and her first collection of poetry, mātuhi / needle, was published in 2004.

Baker studied Māori as an adult and her love for Te Reo comes through in her poetry. The poems unite observations and experiences of childhood, family, emerging sexuality, politics and culture. Hinemoana Baker was appointed 2009 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence, and she performs regularly as both a poet and a singer-songwriter.