According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...

Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to be published in English and one of New Zealand’s most celebrated verse writers, has died. He was 86. Tuwhare died Wednesday at a home for the elderly in the ...

WHALE FALL: Poems, by David Baker. (Norton, $26.95.) Baker’s 12th volume of poetry finds him in a wistful, elegiac mood, paying witness to the shared frailties of the natural world and the aging, ...