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.”
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.”
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.