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Hone, Tuwhare (1922–2008), is New Zealand’s most distinguished Maori poet writing in English, and also a playwright and author of short fiction. He was born in Kaikohe.
When he was awarded the Burns Fellowship in 1969, he began a long association with the Otago region. And as showed on the plaque, he spent his rest of life in Dunedin. In this city he met the Maori painter, Ralph Hotere, who provided illustrations for his next four volumes—Come Rain Hail (1970), Sap-Wood & Milk (1972), Something Nothing (1974) and Making a Fist of It: Poems and Short Stories (1978).
Snowfall should be first collected in Year of the Dog: Poems New and Selected (1982), but I didn’t find the book in library. The collection of poems I have found is Mihi: Collected Poems (1987). And I took the picture of the Snowfall showed bellow.
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