Born in 1937 at Taumarunui, NZ, [he] was educated at local primary and high schools and Ardmore Teachers’ College, Auckland. He toured with the NZ Opera Company’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ and acted in the English-produced film ‘Rangi’s Catch’; [he] was co-founder of the Māori Theatre Trust, which toured Russia, Greece and part of USA. He is a teacher, at present headmaster in a Wellington School. His poems have been published in NZ PEN, Gazette and Poet, India.
Biographical sources
- World Anthology: A Verse Mosaic by Living Poets of and for All Continents. Ed. Orville Crowder Miller and Dorothy Munns Miller. Urbana, Illinois, USA: Delora Memorial Fund for World Brotherhood, n.d.
Other
- "Taku Māoritanga." POET: An International Monthly (May 1974). Rpt. in World Anthology: A Verse Mosaic By Living Poets Of And For All Continents. Orville Crowder Miller and Dorothy Munns Miller. Urbana, Illinois, USA: Delora Memorial Fund for World Brotherhood, n.d. 202.
Other
- "The Unborn." POET: An International Monthly (May 1974): 11.
- "He Kuia." POET (June 1974): 78. Rpt in World Anthology: A Verse Mosaic By Living Poets Of And For All Continents. Orville Crowder Miller and Dorothy Munns Miller. Urbana, Illinois, USA: Delora Memorial Fund for World Brotherhood, n.d.