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'''Robert Sullivan''' (born 1967) is a [[Māori people|Māori]] poet, academic and editor. His published poetry collections include ''Jazz Waiata'' (1990), ''Star Waka'' (1999) and ''Shout Ha! to the Sky'' (2010). His books have a [[Postmodernism|postmodern]] quality and "explore social and racial subjects, and aspects of Māori tradition and history."<ref name="ANZ profile">{{Cite web|url=http://www.anzliterature.com/member/robert-sullivan/|title=Robert Sullivan|date=2017|website=Academy of New Zealand Literature|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref>
==Biography and writing==
Robert Sullivan is of [[Māori people|Māori]] and [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Galway]] descent. He belongs to the [[Māori people|Māori]] tribes [[Ngā Puhi]] (Ngāti Manu/Ngāti Hau) as well as to [[Ngāi Tahu|Kāi Tahu]] and describes himself as [[Multiculturalism|multicultural]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aen.org.nz/journal/1/2/sullivan.html |title=AENJ 1.2: A Brief Introduction |publisher=Aen.org.nz |date= |accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref>


==Biography==
He graduated from the University of Auckland with a PhD and worked as Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Hawai'i.<ref name="autogenerated1">Green, P., and Ricketts, H., 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry, Vintage, 2010.</ref> Sullivan led until recently the creative writing programme at the Manukau Institute of Technology before becoming the Deputy Chief Executive Māori there from 2018-2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manukau.ac.nz/creativearts/school-of-creative-writing |title=School of Creative Writing - Faculty of Creative Arts |publisher=Manukau.ac.nz |date=20 February 2012 |accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref>
Sullivan is of Māori and Irish descent. His grandfather was an immigrant to New Zealand from [[Galway]]. He identifies with the [[Ngā Puhi]] (Ngāti Manu/Ngāti Hau) and [[Ngāi Tahu|Kāi Tahu]] [[iwi]], and describes himself as multicultural.<ref>Sullivan, Robert. "A Brief Introduction". ''Aotearoa Ethnic Journal'', 2006 (vol. 1), no. 2. URL: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205114223/http://www.aen.org.nz/journal/1/2/sullivan.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130205114223/http://www.aen.org.nz/journal/1/2/sullivan.html].</ref>


He began teaching at the [[University of Hawaiʻi]] in 2003 and received a teaching award in 2008 for his work as associate professor of English.<ref>[https://www.hawaii.edu/about/awards/uhmteach.php?award=sullivan University of Hawaiʻi: UH Manoa Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching.]</ref> He also held the position of Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hawaiʻi.<ref>[https://www.harvardreview.org/contributor/robert-sullivan Harvard Review Online: Robert Sullivan (contribution to issue no. 35, 2008)]</ref> At the [[Manukau Institute of Technology]], Sullivan led the creative writing programme<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120316043448/http://www.manukau.ac.nz/creativearts/students2#tabs64082-2 Manukau Institute of Technology: Faculty of Creative Arts - School of Creative Writing (Wayback Machine).]</ref> and served as Deputy Chief Executive (Māori).<ref>[https://arts.berkeley.edu/news/writing-workshop-ma%C5%8Dri-poet-robert-sullivan UC Berkeley: Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan]</ref> He graduated 2015 from the University of Auckland with a PhD, supervised by [[Selina Tusitala Marsh]].<ref>Sullivan, Robert. ''Mana Moana: Wayfinding and Five Indigenous Poets''. Doctoral thesis. University of Auckland, 2015. URL: [https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/25497 https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/25497].</ref> Sullivan edits the literary online journal ''trout''.<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-sullivan Poetry Foundation: Robert Sullivan.]</ref>
Robert Sullivan's nine books include the bestselling Star Waka, reprinted five times and shortlisted in 2000 for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Maui: Legends of the Outcast, illustrated by Chris Slane, the first New Zealand graphic novel, was shortlisted for the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal. His book-length poem Captain Cook in the Underworld was long-listed for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in the Poetry Category. It is also the libretto for an oratorio by noted composer John Psathas which has been performed at the Wellington and Auckland Town Halls by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Choir of Wellington. His first collection, Jazz Waiata, won the PEN (NZ) Best First Book Award, and his children's retelling of Māori myths and legends, Weaving Earth and Sky, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, won the non-fiction category and was Children's Book of the Year in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. The Polynesian poetry anthology he coedited, Whetu Moana, won the reference and anthology category in the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Māori poetry anthology he coedited, Puna Wai Kōrero, won the 2015 Creative Writing category in the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.anzliterature.com/member/robert-sullivan/|title=Robert Sullivan|date=2017|website=Academy of New Zealand Literature|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/nga-kupu-ora-aotearoa-maori-book-awards/}</ref>


==Writing==
His wide ranging work explores dimensions of [[Māori people|Māori]] tradition as well as "contemporary urban experiences, including local racial and social concerns."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Sullivan,%20Robert |title=New Zealand Book Council |publisher=Bookcouncil.org.nz |date= |accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref> His writing has a post modern feel and shows acute awareness of important [[Aotearoa]]/[[New Zealand]] issues while linking them in a complex way back to the cultural past.<ref>JENSEN, K. „Sullivan, Robert.“ The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. R. Robinson & N.
Sullivan's ten books include the bestselling ''Star Waka'' (1999), reprinted five times and shortlisted in 2000 for the [[Montana New Zealand Book Awards]]. ''Maui: Legends of the Outcast'' (1997), illustrated by [[Chris Slane]] and "one of New Zealand's first graphic novels",<ref>Horrocks, Dylan. "Outcast in Ink". ''Pavement Magazine Feature''. Dec. 1996. {{cite web |title=Maui Reviews |url=https://www.slane.co.nz/maui-reviews.html |access-date=25 October 2023}}</ref> was shortlisted for the [[LIANZA]] Russell Clark Medal.<ref>{{cite web |title=LIANZA Russell Clark Award |url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/russell-clark-award/ |website=Christchurch City Libraries |access-date=23 February 2021}}</ref> His book-length poem ''Captain Cook in the Underworld'' was long-listed for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in the Poetry Category. It was originally commissioned as the [[libretto]] for an oratorio by noted composer [[John Psathas]] which has been performed at the Wellington and Auckland Town Halls by the [[New Zealand Symphony Orchestra]] and the [[Orpheus Choir of Wellington]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sullivan |first1=Robert |title=Captain Cook in the Underworld |date=2002 |publisher=Auckland University Press |location=Auckland, N.Z. |isbn=978-1-8694-0281-5}}</ref> His first collection, ''Jazz Waiata'', won the PEN (NZ) Best First Book Award, and his children's retelling of Māori myths and legends, ''Weaving Earth and Sky'', illustrated by [[Gavin Bishop]], won the non-fiction category and was Children's Book of the Year in the 2003 [[New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards]]. With [[Albert Wendt]] and [[Reina Whaitiri]], he has co-edited several anthologies of poetry.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Noel-Tod |editor1-first=Jeremy |encyclopedia=Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry |title=Sullivan, Robert (1967–) |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199640256.001.0001/acref-9780199640256-e-1717 |access-date=23 February 2021 |date=2013 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-1917-4452-5}}</ref> Their Polynesian poetry anthology, ''Whetu Moana'', won the Reference and Anthology category in the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and their Māori poetry anthology, ''Puna Wai Kōrero'', won the 2015 Creative Writing category in the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards.<ref name="ANZ profile"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards |url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/nga-kupu-ora-aotearoa-maori-book-awards/ |website=Christchurch City Libraries |access-date=23 February 2021}}</ref>
Wattie (Hg.). Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1998, 519.</ref>


In the poetic narrative ''Star Waka'' (1999) for example, Sullivan employs traditional [[Māori people|Māori]] story-telling techniques ([[oral tradition]]) in order to link contemporary and traditional topics from [[Aotearoa]]/[[New Zealand]] with concepts and ideas from a [[Europe]]an background. This approach allows him to study the identity relation between [[Māori people|Māori]] and [[New Zealand European|Pākehā]] within [[Transculturalism|transcultural]] themes of voyaging, personal and national, of the poet and of Māori. In a sense, the poems in ''Star Waka'' "themselves function like a waka."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/browse-books/notices/notices/template/notice_item.jsp?cid=479034 |title=Star Waka - Auckland University Press - The University of Auckland |publisher=Press.auckland.ac.nz |date= |accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref> "Star Waka" was "lauded for its poetic flair".<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
His wide-ranging work explores dimensions of Māori tradition as well as "contemporary urban experiences, including local racial and social concerns."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Sullivan,%20Robert |title=New Zealand Book Council |publisher=Bookcouncil.org.nz |date= |accessdate=3 October 2012}}</ref> His writing has a post modern feel and shows acute awareness of important [[Aotearoa]]/New Zealand issues while linking them in a complex way back to the cultural past.<ref>Jensen, K. "Sullivan, Robert." ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature''. R. Robinson & N. Wattie (eds.). Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1998, 519.</ref> For example, in the poetic narrative ''Star Waka'' (1999) Sullivan uses traditional Māori story-telling techniques ([[oral tradition]]) in order to confront topics from Aotearoa/New Zealand with European concepts within a "critical space of contemporary cultural politics."<ref>Prentice, Chris. "«A knife through time»: Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka and the Politics and Poetics of Cultural Difference". In: ''ARIEL'', 2006 (vol. 37, no. 2-3), pp. 111-135. URL: [https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/view/31374 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/view/31374].</ref> This approach allows him to study the identity relation between Māori and [[New Zealand European|Pākehā]] within [[Transculturalism|transcultural]] themes of voyaging, personal and national, of the poet and of Māori. In a sense, the poems in ''Star Waka'' "themselves function like a waka."<ref>[https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/star-waka/ Auckland University Press: Star Waka]</ref>


He is "widely seen as one of the most important contemporary Māori poets."<ref>"SULLIVAN, R. Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. D. HEAD (Hg.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006, 1078.</ref>
He is "widely seen as one of the most important contemporary Māori poets".<ref>"Sullivan, R." ''Cambridge Guide to Literature in English''. Dominic Head (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006, 1078.</ref>


==Writing style==
==Critical reception==
Sullivan's ''Shout Ha! to the Sky'' (2010) was described by [[Paula Green (poet)|Paula Green]] in the ''New Zealand Herald'' as "a stunning symphony of love, politics, tenderness, confession, sharpness and insight", which "should be in every school library and accompany the journey of any reader drawn to the history and politics of where we come from and who we are".<ref name="Green">{{cite news |last1=Green |first1=Paula |title=Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/poetry-reviews-fossicking-in-the-past/EO4XMIPIMK3YWFJTYFB4LM2ZYU/ |access-date=23 February 2021 |work=New Zealand Herald |date=7 March 2011}}</ref> She described his collection ''Cassino'' (2010), which paid tribute to those who died and fought at the [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] during World War II, as again highlighting his "wide-ranging voice" and being "sumptuous in content yet simple in execution".<ref name="Green"/>
Robert Sullivan's Shout Ha! is heralded as a stunning symphony of love, politics, tenderness, confession, sharpness and insight which should be in every New Zealand school library as it accounts for the history and politics of the country.


==Literary works==
Sullivan uses a wide-ranging voice who makes complex content, simple in execution.
[[File:Letter bench (16513019533).jpg|thumb|''Kawe Reo / Voices Carry'', a 2011 sculptural bench outside the Auckland Central City Library that incorporates poetry by Sullivan]]
His book Cassino City of Martyrs, in part is a song for Sullivan's grandfather who fought in Italy. Cassino is inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy with its various descents, ascents, spirals and authorial intrusions.
Authored:

Like Dante, Sullivan brings together life on many levels - from the personal to the cultural, from the political to the emotional. Like the Italian poet, he favours a cheeky vernacular as well as an elegant phrasing.
Sullivan draws upon his own loves and losses in a way that refreshes our engagement with all things human.<ref>"2011. Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past". The ''New Zealand Herald''</ref>

==Works==
* ''Jazz Waiata'' (1990)
* ''Jazz Waiata'' (1990)
* ''Piki Ake!: Poems 1990-92'' (1993)
* ''Piki Ake!: Poems 1990–92'' (1993)
* ''Maui - Legends of the Outcast'' (1996)
* ''Maui Legends of the Outcast'' (1996)
* ''Star Waka'' (1999; German translation: ''Sternen-Waka'', 2012)
* ''Star Waka'' (1999; German translation: ''Sternen-Waka'', 2012)
* ''Weaving Earth and Sky : Myths & Legends of Aotearoa'' (2002)
* ''Weaving Earth and Sky : Myths & Legends of Aotearoa'' (2002)
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* ''Shout Ha! to the Sky'' (2010)
* ''Shout Ha! to the Sky'' (2010)
* ''Cassino: City of Martyrs'' (2010)
* ''Cassino: City of Martyrs'' (2010)
* ''Tūnui | Comet'' (2022)

* ''Hopurangi―Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka'' (2024)
* ''Mauri Ola:Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English'' (2010) coedited with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri
Edited:
* ''Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English'' (2003) coedited with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri
*{{Cite book|title=Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English |editor1-first=Albert |editor1-last=Wendt |editor1-link=Albert Wendt |editor2-first=Reina |editor2-last=Whaitiri |editor2-link=Reina Whaitiri |editor3-first=Robert |editor3-last=Sullivan|editor3-link=Robert Sullivan (poet) |publisher=Auckland Univ Press|date=December 2002 |isbn=9781869402730}}
* ''Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English'' (2014) coedited with Reina Whaitiri
*{{cite book |editor1-first=Albert |editor1-last=Wendt |editor1-link=Albert Wendt |editor2-first=Reina |editor2-last=Whaitiri |editor2-link=Reina Whaitiri |editor3-first=Robert |editor3-last=Sullivan |title=Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English |location=Auckland |publisher=Auckland UP |date=September 2010 |isbn=9781869404482}}
*''Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English'' (2014) coedited with Reina Whaitiri


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [https://www.anzliterature.com/member/robert-sullivan/ Academy of New Zealand Literature author page]
*[https://www.anzliterature.com/member/robert-sullivan/ Academy of New Zealand Literature author page]
* [http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=154 New Zealand Literature File: Robert Sullivan]
*[http://www.nzlf.auckland.ac.nz/author/?a_id=154 New Zealand Literature File: Robert Sullivan]
* [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/sullivan/index.asp New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre: Robert Sullivan]
*[http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/sullivan/index.asp New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre: Robert Sullivan]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060515235859/http://waterbridgereview.org/012005/cnv_sullivan_p1.php WaterBridge Review (January 2005): Conversation with Robert Sullivan (Wayback Machine)]
* [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/sullivan3.asp Pasifika Poetry: Video-Interview with Robert Sullivan, conducted by Selina Tusitala Marsh]
*[http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/pasifika/sullivan3.asp Pasifika Poetry: Video-Interview with Robert Sullivan, conducted by Selina Tusitala Marsh (May 2005)]
* [http://waterbridgereview.org/012005/cnv_sullivan_p1.php WaterBridge Review (January 2005): Conversation with Robert Sullivan]
*[https://jackrossopinions.blogspot.com/2015/11/an-interview-with-robert-sullivan-2015.html Jack Ross: An Interview with Robert Sullivan (September 2015)], printed in: ''Poetry New Zealand'' (2015, no. 50), pp. 23-38. URL: [https://poetrynz.net/archives/issue-50/ https://poetrynz.net/archives/issue-50/].


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Robert Sullivan
Sullivan, 2011
Sullivan, 2011
Born1967 (age 57–58)
Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation
  • Poet
  • academic
  • editor
EducationPhD, University of Auckland
Period1990–

Robert Sullivan (born 1967) is a Māori poet, academic and editor. His published poetry collections include Jazz Waiata (1990), Star Waka (1999) and Shout Ha! to the Sky (2010). His books have a postmodern quality and "explore social and racial subjects, and aspects of Māori tradition and history."[1]

Biography

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Sullivan is of Māori and Irish descent. His grandfather was an immigrant to New Zealand from Galway. He identifies with the Ngā Puhi (Ngāti Manu/Ngāti Hau) and Kāi Tahu iwi, and describes himself as multicultural.[2]

He began teaching at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2003 and received a teaching award in 2008 for his work as associate professor of English.[3] He also held the position of Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hawaiʻi.[4] At the Manukau Institute of Technology, Sullivan led the creative writing programme[5] and served as Deputy Chief Executive (Māori).[6] He graduated 2015 from the University of Auckland with a PhD, supervised by Selina Tusitala Marsh.[7] Sullivan edits the literary online journal trout.[8]

Writing

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Sullivan's ten books include the bestselling Star Waka (1999), reprinted five times and shortlisted in 2000 for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Maui: Legends of the Outcast (1997), illustrated by Chris Slane and "one of New Zealand's first graphic novels",[9] was shortlisted for the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal.[10] His book-length poem Captain Cook in the Underworld was long-listed for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in the Poetry Category. It was originally commissioned as the libretto for an oratorio by noted composer John Psathas which has been performed at the Wellington and Auckland Town Halls by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Choir of Wellington.[11] His first collection, Jazz Waiata, won the PEN (NZ) Best First Book Award, and his children's retelling of Māori myths and legends, Weaving Earth and Sky, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, won the non-fiction category and was Children's Book of the Year in the 2003 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. With Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, he has co-edited several anthologies of poetry.[12] Their Polynesian poetry anthology, Whetu Moana, won the Reference and Anthology category in the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and their Māori poetry anthology, Puna Wai Kōrero, won the 2015 Creative Writing category in the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards.[1][13]

His wide-ranging work explores dimensions of Māori tradition as well as "contemporary urban experiences, including local racial and social concerns."[14] His writing has a post modern feel and shows acute awareness of important Aotearoa/New Zealand issues while linking them in a complex way back to the cultural past.[15] For example, in the poetic narrative Star Waka (1999) Sullivan uses traditional Māori story-telling techniques (oral tradition) in order to confront topics from Aotearoa/New Zealand with European concepts within a "critical space of contemporary cultural politics."[16] This approach allows him to study the identity relation between Māori and Pākehā within transcultural themes of voyaging, personal and national, of the poet and of Māori. In a sense, the poems in Star Waka "themselves function like a waka."[17]

He is "widely seen as one of the most important contemporary Māori poets".[18]

Critical reception

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Sullivan's Shout Ha! to the Sky (2010) was described by Paula Green in the New Zealand Herald as "a stunning symphony of love, politics, tenderness, confession, sharpness and insight", which "should be in every school library and accompany the journey of any reader drawn to the history and politics of where we come from and who we are".[19] She described his collection Cassino (2010), which paid tribute to those who died and fought at the Battle of Monte Cassino during World War II, as again highlighting his "wide-ranging voice" and being "sumptuous in content yet simple in execution".[19]

Literary works

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Kawe Reo / Voices Carry, a 2011 sculptural bench outside the Auckland Central City Library that incorporates poetry by Sullivan

Authored:

  • Jazz Waiata (1990)
  • Piki Ake!: Poems 1990–92 (1993)
  • Maui – Legends of the Outcast (1996)
  • Star Waka (1999; German translation: Sternen-Waka, 2012)
  • Weaving Earth and Sky : Myths & Legends of Aotearoa (2002)
  • Captain Cook in the Underworld (2002)
  • Voice Carried My Family (2005)
  • Shout Ha! to the Sky (2010)
  • Cassino: City of Martyrs (2010)
  • Tūnui | Comet (2022)
  • Hopurangi―Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (2024)

Edited:

  • Wendt, Albert; Whaitiri, Reina; Sullivan, Robert, eds. (December 2002). Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English. Auckland Univ Press. ISBN 9781869402730.
  • Wendt, Albert; Whaitiri, Reina; Sullivan, Robert, eds. (September 2010). Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English. Auckland: Auckland UP. ISBN 9781869404482.
  • Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English (2014) coedited with Reina Whaitiri

References

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  1. ^ a b "Robert Sullivan". Academy of New Zealand Literature. 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert. "A Brief Introduction". Aotearoa Ethnic Journal, 2006 (vol. 1), no. 2. URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20130205114223/http://www.aen.org.nz/journal/1/2/sullivan.html.
  3. ^ University of Hawaiʻi: UH Manoa Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching.
  4. ^ Harvard Review Online: Robert Sullivan (contribution to issue no. 35, 2008)
  5. ^ Manukau Institute of Technology: Faculty of Creative Arts - School of Creative Writing (Wayback Machine).
  6. ^ UC Berkeley: Writing Workshop Maōri Poet Robert Sullivan
  7. ^ Sullivan, Robert. Mana Moana: Wayfinding and Five Indigenous Poets. Doctoral thesis. University of Auckland, 2015. URL: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/25497.
  8. ^ Poetry Foundation: Robert Sullivan.
  9. ^ Horrocks, Dylan. "Outcast in Ink". Pavement Magazine Feature. Dec. 1996. "Maui Reviews". Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  10. ^ "LIANZA Russell Clark Award". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  11. ^ Sullivan, Robert (2002). Captain Cook in the Underworld. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-8694-0281-5.
  12. ^ Noel-Tod, Jeremy, ed. (2013). "Sullivan, Robert (1967–)". Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1917-4452-5. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  14. ^ "New Zealand Book Council". Bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  15. ^ Jensen, K. "Sullivan, Robert." The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. R. Robinson & N. Wattie (eds.). Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1998, 519.
  16. ^ Prentice, Chris. "«A knife through time»: Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka and the Politics and Poetics of Cultural Difference". In: ARIEL, 2006 (vol. 37, no. 2-3), pp. 111-135. URL: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/ariel/article/view/31374.
  17. ^ Auckland University Press: Star Waka
  18. ^ "Sullivan, R." Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Dominic Head (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006, 1078.
  19. ^ a b Green, Paula (7 March 2011). "Poetry Reviews: Fossicking in the past". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
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