For this week's Search History, we asked Tayi Tibble, whose new collection 'Rangikura' drops this week, about love poems and strange DMs.
was eight, she decided she’d be a writer. But in middle school, after a love poem assignment, she resolved to be a. As a Māori woman—an indigenous Polynesian, living in New Zealand—she began posting her writing on Wattled, Tumblr and Instagram, gaining a large following for her elegies on ancestral trauma and girlhood sprinkled with references to cultural ephemera likewas published with Knopf and received the Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award.
TIBBLE: I go back sleep. I have to hit snooze like six times. Every morning is like being reborn to me. It’s upsetting. But then I’ll put music on the speakers and check my apps.TIBBLE: I think Spotify, but my screen time differs and reckon its Instagram.TIBBLE: Maybe Instagram. I follow a lot of indigenous artists and so I get inspired seeing their mahi on my feed. I think I’m inspired by my friends who work in a different medium like visual arts or film.
TIBBLE: I remember an elder māori poet told me that when we read our poems we should read them with the mana they deserve. That way you honor your poem, you honor the audience and you honor yourself. Mana is sort of like our concept of true integrity. That, and wear something nice to look at.
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