The Lobster’s Tale ’ — essa may ranapiri

’ — essa may ranapiri

honest and deeply moving memoir

where te ao Māori and te ao Pākehā sit alongside one another in harmony and tension

But then the Poetry Yearbook turns up again

The Lobster’s Tale ’ — essa may ranapiriWhats the lobsters tune when he is boiled? Exploring the lobsters biology and its history in language, literature and gastronomy, The Lobsters Tale navigates the perils of a life driven by overreaching ambition and the appetite for knowledge, conquest and commerce. In conversation with the text, Bruce Fosters photographs navigate a parallel course of shadows and light, in which the extraordinary textures and colours of the natural world tell a darker