VAUGHAN RAPATAHANA is a New Zealander who has lived for many years in a variety of countries and now lives and works in Hong Kong. He published two collections of poetry in the 1980s, Down among the Dead Men and Street Runes. After a lapse of two decades, in 2008 Vaughan returned to poetry and has recently been published throughout Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand, with impending publication in the U.S.A. In 2009 he was long listed for the inaugural Proverse Prize in Literature. He is Poetry Editor for MAI Review Journal, a leading online academic journal specializing in the work of indigenous writers and a member of the New Zealand Poetry Society. Vaughan has a PhD in Existential Literature and Philosophy from the University of Auckland. His ancestry is Maori and he is affiliated to the TeAtiawa iwi (tribe). His wife is from the Philippines and they are a multilingual household. His poetry collection, Home, Away, Elsewhere was long-listed for the inaugural Proverse Prize and published in November 2011.

BOOK BY VAUGHAN RAPATAHANA PUBLISHED BY PROVERSE HONG KONG

POETRY

Home, Away, Elsewhere

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