MEETING AOTEAROA ON FOOT
May 31, 2020
2 minutes
By Matthew Cattin
Could you explain the name of your book, Meeting Papa?
I wanted to have a connection to Papatūānuku (the land; the mother earth figure who gave birth to all things) in the title and I remembered Geoff Chapple writing about his conversation with the poet Hone Tuwhare in . On hearing Geoff's endeavours to start a long-distance walk in New Zealand, Hone said, ‘to get to know Papatūānuku
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