Rāwaho: The Completed Poems reviewed in Takahē Magazine

Rāwaho: The Completed Poems has been reviewed in the April 2023 edition of Takahē Magazine. Reviewer, Vaughan Rapatahana, writes:

“This man treats his poems and their respective heritages lovingly, even religiously, for there is a fluent reverence to his themes throughout. He is a curator of his craft, a kingmaker of koan.”

The April 2023 edition of Takahē Magazine can be found here. Links to other reviews of David’s work can be found here.

Rāwaho: The Completed Poems reviewed in Landfall Review Online

Rāwaho: The Completed Poems has been reviewed in Landfall Review Online. Reviewer, Lindsay Rabbitt, writes:

“To read Howard is to engage with alert and dynamic language, always in movement, in stanza drops, across columns, zig-zagging down the page. The first thing I got as I attended to these pages was the music, the mercurial, shapeshifting nature of the text.... Howard’s a fine poet, inspiring even, and a delight to read, his book alive with literary and cultural echoes.”

The rest of the review can be found here. Links to other reviews of David’s work can be found here.

Rāwaho: The Completed Poems — First Review

Rāwaho: The Completed Poems is available now, and has been reviewed by Ian Wedde for the Academy of New Zealand Literature. Wedde writes:

“...the poems themselves...far from being dry or pedantic are fine-tuned, imaginatively inventive, often elegantly lyrical, and often — opening a random page — witty.”

The full review can be found here.