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You Are Here
Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin
A unique collaboration in words and art
The sixth book in the remarkable kōrero series, edited by Lloyd Jones, features Jann Medlicott Acorn Fiction Prize winner Whiti Hereaka and the acclaimed artist Peata Larkin, cousins who share the same whakapapa, in a collaboration based on the Fibonacci number sequence.
In a feat of managed imagining, Hereaka’s words spiral out to the centre of the book and then back in on themselves to end with the same words with which the text began. As the pattern spools out and then folds back, Peata Larkin’s meticulous drawings of tāniko and whakairo and her lush works on silk weave their own entrancing pattern.
‘It is my hope that by the time you have walked that path that you are now a different reader and will read those words in a new way,’ Hereaka says.
You Are Here is a beguiling and important addition to the kōrero series.
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Pre-order now — books will be shipped 13 March 2025
- CATEGORY: Art and design, Literature
- ISBN: 9781991016799
- PUBLISHER: Massey University Press
- IMPRINT: Massey University Press
- PUBLISHED: 13/03/2025
- PAGE EXTENT: 96
- FORMAT: Hard cover
About the authors
Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa) is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. Her fourth novel, Kurangaituku, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Peata Larkin (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and Ngāti Tuhourangi) graduated with a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, Melbourne, in 2009 and has a BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.