Category Indigenous
Selected Poems from Marie Keletaona Tamole’s Les Murmures de l’océan / Fakamusumusu o le moana / (The Ocean’s Whisperings), Translated by Jean Anderson
Jean Anderson translates selected poems from Marie Keletaona Tamole’s collection Les Murmures de l’océan / Fakamusumusu o le moana / (The Ocean’s Whisperings) in homage to her natal island, Futuna.
From Ocean to Ocean, a Translator’s Note by Jean Anderson
Jean Anderson offers a reflection on her translations of Marie Tamole Keletaona’s poetry in memory of her home island of Futuna.
Coral Relation: Reading translated excerpts from Denis Pourawa’s “Our Coral Soul”
Denis Pourawa is a Kanak (Indigenous) writer born in 1974 in Nouméa, the capital city of Kanaky/New Caledonia, a French-speaking archipelago situated close to Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia in the Pacific Ocean. In 2003, he wrote his first children’s book; since, he has published (and performed) in a variety of literary genres, including poetry, theatre, short essays, and slam poetry. A member of the Mérénémé tribe, Pourawa’s work is influenced by his childhood memories, Kanak tradition, and his first encounter with “occidental thinking” through literature, which encouraged him to dedicate his life to the arts.