Difference between revisions of "Maori Oven. W. Hart-Smith"
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[[File:Onthelevel.jpg|right]]From ''On the Level, Mostly Canterbury Poems'' W. Hart-Smith Printed Timaru Herald 1950. | [[File:Onthelevel.jpg|right]]From ''On the Level, Mostly Canterbury Poems'' W. Hart-Smith Printed Timaru Herald 1950. | ||
| − | Maori Oven's opening line sets a context of excavating into turf with a shovel. Another poem in the book is entitled 'Cave Paintings". | + | Maori Oven's opening line sets a context of excavating into turf with a shovel. The acknowledgements in the book credit its first publication to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin The Bulletin]. Another poem in the book is entitled 'Cave Paintings". |
The book's cover featured a reproduction of a cave drawing by [[Schoon Theo|Theo Schoon]]. | The book's cover featured a reproduction of a cave drawing by [[Schoon Theo|Theo Schoon]]. | ||
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Maori Oven
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You cut into the warm earth
and shatter the dead shells into bright fragments.
Why does a piece of obsidian, a bone pick
sharp as yesterday, give you so much
pleasure? Leave it alone, Pakeha,
leave it alone!
(Last six lines)
Maori Oven's opening line sets a context of excavating into turf with a shovel. The acknowledgements in the book credit its first publication to The Bulletin. Another poem in the book is entitled 'Cave Paintings".
The book's cover featured a reproduction of a cave drawing by Theo Schoon.
Hart-Smith was a sometime adult education tutor in Timaru and gave assistance to Schoon. He was British born and resident at times in Australia and New Zealand. He produced many volumes of poetry.
