Kai te korero te mema paremata mō Te Waiariki a Rawiri Waititi mō ngā mauhere o Waikēria me ō rātau nawe i rongo ki te kōti. Kua arā ake anō hoki tētahi take whenua ki te rohe o Te Whānau A Apanui kua roa e whanga ana kia ea.
Rawiri Waititi the member of parliament for Te Waiariki talks to Te Upoko O Te Ika about the prisoners at Waikēria and their case heard in the court and a land issue in the Te Whānau A Apanui tribal area that has been a long time in getting sorted out.

Interview with Rawiri Waititi

Producer Hinemoana Baker writes of 'I Can See Fiji": 'It has been a wonderful privilege collaborating with poet Teresia Teaiwa on this album. Teresia (US/Kiribati/Fiji) on this album. Teresia is an established and respected print poet, scholar and writer, and someone whose work I admired long before she approached me to produce an audio version of her poetry. 

'What you see and hear on this album began life in a very different form. Three years ago, after a few preliminary discussions, Teresia delivered 12 chosen poems that she wanted produced in audio. She’d been writing quite a bit, she said, about walking: both the physical act, and what it represents for a migrant like herself. She had an epigraph in mind – comedian Eteuati Ete’s joke ‘I’m not a pedestrian. I’m a Samoan.’ She also had a working title: ‘Poems from Pedestria’.

'Teresia told me she wanted to use the project to break out of the literal - to take herself and her work into new, perhaps more abstract territory.  So we resolved to try and create a kind of theatre for the ear - making decisions about what the audience would 'see' first, and what would be slowly revealed.

'It’s not often a producer is given so much freedom with the sound design of any album – I’m very grateful to Teresia for giving me this opportunity. I think of the result, ‘i can see fiji’, as a docu-story, a poem-entary, even as an old-fashioned radio drama. Basically it’s a story – to some extent Teresia’s story - told with words and sound. There’s poetry, for sure, but not as we know it.'

I Can See Fiji: Poetry and Sound

Ohiro Road

Yay, I can finally talk about one of my loves without any interruptions or censorship. I live in Te Whanganui-a-Tara aka Wellington, the capital of Aotearoa NZ. Tune in and listen to some funny as shit about the food goings-on down our ways.  In this episode I talk about Courtney Place and the amazing KC Cafe, one of my all-time fave places to eat.

Interview with Rawiri Waititi

Te Upoko o Te Ika

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