New Releases by Keri Hulme

A short story Keri Hulme wrote about kēhua, ghosts, when she was in Year 10 at Aranui High School, presented by Spiral as an educational resource for schools, including Keri Hulme's later writing about her understanding of kēhua. It addresses themes that she further developed in another story written at school, Moeraki Hilltop (published in Keri Hulme Our Kuru Pounamu) and then in her Booker Prize-winning novel the bone people. Cover Biz Hayman. Photographs by Kate Salmons and Robin Morrison.

Keri Hulme (1947-2021) was the first novelist from Aotearoa New Zealand to win the Booker Prize, for the bone people, published by a Spiral collective. Keri Hulme: Our Kuru Pounamu is Spiral's celebration of Keri's life and work, with tributes, essays, poems, stories, interviews, ephemera, art works and photographs. This is the third edition. It includes two stories Keri wrote at secondary school — they cover themes continued in the bone people, which Keri started to write when she was 18. These come from Keri's family — her whānau was always at the centre of her life; from her tahu-tuhituhi, her beloved writing associates; and from her neighbours and friends. To include her in the kōrero — she loved conversation! — Keri is represented by poems, art works, a long essay about Te Wāhipounamu - South West New Zealand World Heritage Area, two stories she wrote while still at school that prefigure themes in the bone people, shorter essays, and extracts from her letters. The title comes from a letter that the late Dr Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie wrote to Spiral. The cover and a suite of illustrations are by Kāi Tahu artist Madison Kelly. Keri Hulme: Our Kuru Pounamu is in seven parts — Kā Tahu-Tuhituhi Arapera Blank, Bill Manhire, Brian Potiki, Cathie Dunsford, Fergus Barrowman, Gaylene Preston, Janet Charman, Keri Hulme, Maclean Barker, Patricia Grace, Philip Tremewan, Renée, Rowley Habib, Sandi Hall, Sharon Murphy Moeraki — The Black Bach Keri Hulme, Leigh Te Ahuru–Lam Sheung, Siobhan McNulty Te Tai Poutini — Kā Naybore Andris Apse, David Alexander, Keri Hulme, Sonja Worthington Spiral & The Women's Gallery Bridie Lonie, Keri Hulme, Marian Evans the bone people Arapera Blank, Dulcie Smart, Erihapeti Murchie, Irihapeti Ramsden, Keri Hulme, Lynne Ciochetto, Mark Cubey, Sylvia Mary Bowen, Vicki McDonald Te Whānau Tommy Rakikino Miller, Mary Miller, Kate Salmons, Matthew Salmons Te Waiata The book ends with ends with a waiata composed by the late Miriama Evans of Spiral and sung at the launch of the bone people.

Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize. These 20 stories were written over more than a decade and range from widely anthologised classics like the novella-length ' Te Kaihau' itself, ' Hooks and Feelers' and ' One Whale, Singing' , to stories seldom encountered outside these pages. One, ' A Drift in Dream' , offers a pre-bone people glimpse of Simon and his family.

They have left me. The door is locked. The room is entirely bare. . . . Lost Possessions, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly before The Bone People won the Booker Prize.

En la solitaria torre junto a la costa neozelandesa en la que vive recluida Kerewin Holmes, una artista de ascendencia europea y maorí, irrumpe durante una tormenta Simon, un niño de apariencia salvaje, mudo y rubio como el sol. A la mañana siguiente llegará para recogerlo su padrastro, Joe, un operario de fábrica maorí. Entre el magnético niño, el extrañamente tierno padrastro y la hosca Kerewin pronto nacerá un vínculo singular que, progresivamente, los llevará a adentrarse en el enigma de sus pasados

‘Een literair kunststuk (...). Wonderlijk, geestig en verbazingwekkend veelzijdig is deze roman.’ – Trouw Kerewin Holmes heeft zich teruggetrokken in een zelfgebouwde toren aan de kust van Nieuw-Zeeland. Haar isolement wordt doorbroken door een merkwaardig jongetje dat niet kan spreken en dat wordt opgevoed door zijn pleegvader, een Maori-fabrieksarbeider. Kerewin is een verhaal vol liefde, tederheid en geweld, waarin twee culturen op aangrijpende wijze met elkaar worden verweven.

Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter and a loner, convinced that "to care for anything is to invite disaster." Her isolation is disrupted one day when a six-year-old mute boy, Simon, breaks into her house. The sole survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, Simon has been adopted by a widower Maori factory worker, Joe Gillayley, who is both tender and horribly brutal toward the boy. Through shifting points of view, the novel reveals each character's thoughts and feelings as they struggle with the desire to connect and the fear of attachment. Compared to the works of James Joyce in its use of indigenous language and portrayal of consciousness, The Bone People captures the soul of New Zealand. After twenty years, it continues to astonish and enrich readers around the world.

Stonefish is a collection of short stories and poems by the only New Zealand writer to win the Pegasus Prize for M ori Literature and the Booker Prize. 'a The scallops arranged in the spider lambis were succulently decadent. A bottle of rare wine had been reduced to its essence and sprinkled over the raw bodies, and rough salt, and finely-chopped redware. The flush of the shell echoed visually the wine and the seaweed, and although there were but five scallops, they were truly sweet meat. The slices of mild green pepper were almost transparent, and they tangled artfully with shreds of young daikon, and pressure-steamed fragments of ti. Hot and crisp and oily-melting, a challenging blend. And the tea, as always, was Black Dragon tea, a hint of smoky coolness in the steam, and a consummation in the mouth. People died just to get it to these islands she had learned. She could think of many worse reasons to diea.'

This second collection of poems by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Bone People is made up of three parts. The first poem, "Fishing the Olearia Tree," is a rich and moving exploration of natural processes. "Against Small Evil Voices" is a collection of chants, stories, and memories full of Maori elements and focused primarily on the strength of the family and the courage of women. Finally, "Winesongs" is a selection of more casual lyrics, attractive in expression and effortless in execution. Hulme's verse is loose, sometimes including passages of prose, but is shaped by a powerful romantic drive and a sophisticated attention to the behavior of language.

Te Kaihau / The Windeater is Keri Hulme's first book of short stories. It brings together 10 years of her writing. Many of the stories are new and are printed here for the first time. One story, 'A Drift in Dream' gives a pre-bone people glimpse of Simon and his parents. Table of contents: * Foreword: Tara Diptych * Kaibatsu-San * Swansong * King Bait * A Tally if the Souls of Sheep * One Whale, Singing * Planetesimal * Hooks and Feelers * He Tauware Kawa, He Kawa Tauware * The Knife and the stone * While My Guitar Gently Sings * A Nightsong for the Shining Cuckoo * The Cicadas of Summer * Kiteflying Party at Doctors' Point * Unnamed Islands in the Unknown Sea * Stations on the Way to Avalon * A Window Drunken in the Brain * A Drift in Dream * Te Kaihau / The Windeater * Afterword: Headnote to a Maui Tale.