HINEMOANA BAKER
Soundcheck
Listen to this poem below.
Recorded live at Wellington’s Bluenote Bar at the Mad Genius Songwriters’ Night, 12 September 2002.
Acknowledgement / Thanks to: Tyree Robertson; the fabulous crowd on 12 September, 2002; Nick Christie and all at the Bluenote.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hinemoana Baker attended Bill Manhire’s undergraduate Creative Writing class in 1994, and graduated from the IIML’s MA in Creative Writing in 2002. She has had fiction and poetry previously published in journals Turbine, Sport and JAAM, and in Mutes and Earthquakes and Te Ao Mārama. Her plays have been produced by Taki Rua theatre. She performs and tours her original music, and works as a producer for Radio New Zealand.