Mahinarangi Tocker

Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Maniapoto

1955 -

Mahinarangi Tocker was born in Taumarunui and started writing short stories in 1990. She is a singer and a composer of over 300 songs. She has toured extensively as a singer in Aotearoa and has performed at the Brugge Festival, Belgium, and given concerts in Holland, Canada and Australia. She has performed on television and has made recordings. She has made appearances on Webb Women’s Music Collective (1982), Auckland Acoustic (1985), and the solo albums Clothesline Conversation (1985) and I’m Going Home (1987).

Biographical sources

  • Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed: Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D.S.Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga o Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 42.

    Non-fiction

  • "A Woman." New Women’s Fiction 4. Ed. Wendy Harrex and Lynsey Ferrari. Auckland, N.Z.: New Women’s Press, 1991. 46-53. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Selected and edited by Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed: Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga o Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 45-50.
  • A story illustrating the clash of culture and hospital regulations in some medical institutions.
  • "Everything That Is." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Selected and edited by Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed: Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga o Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 42-43.
  • A song celebrating the solidarity of women
  • "Hell To Pay." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Selected and edited by Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed: Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga o Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 43-44.
  • An assertion of Māori women as a nation and a lifeline.
  • "Papatuānuku (will survive)." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Selected and edited by Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed: Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga o Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 44.
  • A song telling of the surviving power of Papatuānuku despite her despoliation.

    Other

  • Music New Zealand (July)1991. No further details.