"Of Nga Puhi and Irish descent, Robert Sullivan wrote these poems in his kainga in the Bay of Islands and at home in Onehunga. The first group of poems seem to explode straight out of contemporary Auckland, rapping, rocking, teasing, skiting. It's ... making wry comments on daly life in late 20th-century Aotearoa. The concluding sequence, 'Tai Tokerau poems' (for Sir James Henare) is quieter, more sombre..."--Back cover.