Alistair Campbell

"Blue rain from a clear sky. Our world a cube of sunlight – but to the south the violet admonition of thunder."

FullName:   Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
Date of Birth:   25 June 1925 – 16 August 2009
City:   Wellington
Biography:  

Born in the Cook Islands and orphaned at the age of seven, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell grew up in Dunedin with little acknowledgement of his polynesian background. He impressed critics with his first collection of poems in Mine Eyes Dazzle (1950). After a fifty-year absence, he returned to the islands, and is now considered a mediator between polynesian and pākehā poetry.

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ELSE UNIVERSE EDGE ELSE UNIVERSE EDGE

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a clear violet thunder from sunlight

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Our sunlight Of thunder clear the Blue

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world of sunlight clear the violet sky

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but sunlight cube of admonition