{{Short description|New Zealand poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox writer | name = Tayi Tibble | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1995}} | birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand | occupation = Poet | education = MA (creative writing), Victoria University of Wellington (2017) | notable_works = {{plainlist}} *''Poūkahangatus'' (2018) *''Rangikura'' (2021) {{endplainlist}} | awards = | website = }} '''Tayi Tibble''' (born 1995) is a New Zealand poet. Her poetry reflects Māori culture and her own family history. Her first collection of poetry, ''Poūkahangatus'' (2018), received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Both ''Poūkahangatus'' and her second collection, ''Rangikura'' (2021), have been published in the United States and the United Kingdom, and in 2023 she was the first Māori writer to have work published in ''The New Yorker''.
==Life and career== Tibble was born in Wellington in 1995, and from age 7 grew up in Porirua where she attended Aotea College.<ref name="Stephenson">{{cite news |last1=Stephenson |first1=Sharon |title=A quick chat with... Tayi Tibble |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/127945036/a-quick-chat-with-tayi-tibble |access-date=16 March 2022 |work=Stuff |date=5 March 2022}}</ref><ref name="New Yorker">{{cite news |last1=Braunias |first1=Steve |title=NZ writer in New Yorker |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/nz-writer-in-new-yorker |access-date=24 July 2023 |work=Newsroom |date=4 July 2023 |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref name="Frost">{{cite news |last1=Frost |first1=Natasha |title=Tayi Tibble, Maori Poet and ‘It Girl’, Trusts the Wisdom of Her Ancestors |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/books/booksupdate/tayi-tibble-maori-poet.html |access-date=9 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=8 April 2024}}</ref> She is the oldest of seven children and decided she wanted to become a writer at age 8.<ref name="Stephenson"/> She descends from the iwi (tribes) of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui.<ref name="Pantograph">{{cite web |title=Tayi Tibble |url=https://www.pantograph-punch.com/writers/tayi-tibble |website=The Pantograph Punch |access-date=8 December 2021}}</ref> She has an undergraduate degree in history.<ref name="Stephenson"/>
===''Poūkahangatus''=== Tibble completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (based at Victoria University of Wellington) in 2017, and received the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for her work ''In a Fish Tank Filled with Pink Light''.<ref name="RNZ Adam">{{cite news |title=Tayi Tibble wins Adam Foundation Prize |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018626404/tayi-tibble-wins-adam-foundation-prize |access-date=8 December 2021 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=14 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="RNZ Waiting">{{cite news |title='Waiting for life to start': lockdown inspires new poetry collection |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018797498/waiting-for-life-to-start-lockdown-inspires-new-poetry-collection |access-date=10 December 2021 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=29 May 2021}}</ref> That work subsequently became her first collection, ''Poūkahangatus'', which was published in 2018 by Victoria University Press.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tayi Tibble (Writing for the Page, 2017) |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/our-students/grad-showcase/tayi-tibble-writing-for-the-page,-2017 |website=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref> It received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry (the best first poetry book award) at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Winners |url=https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners-by-author?letter=T |website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust |access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref> Anahera Gildea, reviewing the collection for ''Landfall'', described her poetry as a "'a new kind of beauty' that employs clever image piling techniques, layering of ideas, registers and codes, and enables her to emerge as a new voice requiring the reader to look at all things afresh", and the collection as "surely the breakthrough collection of the year, if not the decade".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gildea |first1=Anahera |title=He waka eke noa: We’re all in this together |journal=Landfall Review Online |date=2 October 2018 |url=https://landfallreview.com/he-waka-eke-noa-were-all-in-this-together/ |access-date=11 December 2021}}</ref>
In July 2022 ''Poūkahangatus'' was published in the United States by Knopf,<ref name="Nobody">{{cite web |title=“Nobody in the Water,” a Poem by Tayi Tibble |url=https://lithub.com/nobody-in-the-water-a-poem-by-tayi-tibble/ |website=Literary Hub |access-date=19 May 2022 |date=9 May 2022}}</ref> and in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books.<ref>{{cite web |title=Poukahangatus |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451898/poukahangatus-by-tibble-tayi/9781802060591 |website=Penguin Books |access-date=20 August 2022}}</ref> In November 2022 it was named by ''The New Yorker'' as one of the best books of 2022 so far.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Best Books of 2022 So Far |url=https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2022 |access-date=17 November 2022 |work=The New Yorker |date=17 November 2022}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' commented:<ref>{{cite news |title=Newly Published, From Maori Myths to Europe’s Eastern Borderlands |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/books/review/new-this-week.html |access-date=24 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 2022}}</ref>
{{blockquote|This chatty, winsome debut by a young New Zealand poet mines family history, Maori myth and the residue of pop culture to fashion a striking sensibility in which superstition wards off ghosts and a David Bowie sticker on a laptop resembles "a tiny ... genderless angel lit up by green charger light."}}
===''Rangikura''=== Tibble's second collection, ''Rangikura'', was published in 2021. The poems are based in part on her own experiences growing up as a young Māori woman, and many of the poems were written during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.<ref name="RNZ Waiting"/> She describes the book as being more personal than her first book, and as "pay[ing] tribute to modern Māori culture by using the humour, sexuality and friendship that encapsulates my generation".<ref name="Stephenson"/> Reviewer Hamesh Wyatt, writing for the ''Otago Daily Times'', described it as a "fiery new work" and an "immersive trip".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wyatt |first1=Hamesh |title=Poetry roundup: Eggleton work worth the wait |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/poetry-roundup-eggleton-work-worth-wait |access-date=11 December 2021 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=1 July 2021}}</ref> Paula Green said in her review:<ref>{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Paula |title=Poetry Shelf review: Tayi Tibble's Rangikura |url=https://nzpoetryshelf.com/2021/08/04/poetry-shelf-review-tayi-tibbles-rangikura/ |website=NZ Poetry Shelf |access-date=11 December 2021 |date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
{{blockquote|Tayi's collection is framed by an opening poem and a last poem, ancestor poems, like two palms holding the poetry tenderly, lovingly. Hold this book in your reading hands and check out the electricity when you stand in the river, the ocean. Reading Tayi spins you so sweetly, so sharply, along the line, off the line. I love this book so much.}}
In March 2022, ''Rangikura'' was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.<ref name="Surprises">{{cite news |title=Surprises ahoy: presenting the 2022 Ockham finalists |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/02-03-2022/surprises-ahoy-presenting-the-2022-ockham-finalists |access-date=2 March 2022 |work=The Spinoff |date=2 March 2022}}</ref> In April 2024 it was published by Knopf in the United States,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tibble |first1=Tayi |title=Rangikura |date=2024 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |isbn=9780593534625}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Andrew |first1=Sarah |title=Through the Fire: PW Talks with Tayi Tibble |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/94313-through-the-fire-pw-talks-with-tayi-tibble.html |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=9 February 2024 |language=en}}</ref> and by Penguin in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tayi Tibble {{!}} Rangikura |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451899/rangikura-by-tibble-tayi/9781802060652 |website=Penguin Books Ltd |access-date=21 May 2024 |language=en |date=25 April 2024}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' described it as a "coming-of-age narrative" with an "undercurrent of pride and defiance".<ref name="Frost"/>
===Other work=== Tibble's work has been published in ''Pantograph Punch'', ''The Spinoff'', ''The Wireless'', ''Sport'' and the anthology ''The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand Poems'' (edited by Steve Braunias).<ref name="RNZ Waiting"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fleming |first1=Greg |title=Book review: A Game of Two Halves: The best of Sport 2005–2019 |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/300455109/book-review-a-game-of-two-halves-the-best-of-sport-20052019 |access-date=10 December 2021 |work=Stuff |date=21 November 2021}}</ref><ref name="Buys">{{cite news |last1=Buys |first1=Olivia |title=Pukapuka Talks: The Friday Poem salutes revival in New Zealand poetry |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/115195737/pukapuka-talks-the-friday-poem-salutes-revival-in-new-zealand-poetry |access-date=11 December 2021 |work=Nelson Mail |date=23 August 2019}}</ref> In 2018 she read her poem "Hoki Mai" at an Anzac Day parade attended by 25,000 people in Wellington.<ref name="Buys"/>
From 2019 to 2024 Tibble worked as a publicist at Te Herenga Waka University Press.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=Sam |title=Tayi Tibble isn’t up and coming. She’s here |url=https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350371680/tayi-tibble-isnt-and-coming-shes-here |access-date=12 August 2024 |work=The Post |url-access=subscription |date=11 August 2024}}</ref> In 2019 she joined ''Pantograph Punch'' as a staff writer.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Staff Writers at the Pantograph Punch |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018699518/new-staff-writers-at-the-pantograph-punch |access-date=10 December 2021 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=13 June 2019}}</ref> In 2022 she also worked as an astrologist for ''Metro'' magazine.<ref name="Stephenson"/><ref name="Hamel">{{cite news |last1=Hamel |first1=Jordan |title=Tayi Tibble, by Jane Ussher and Jordan Hamel |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/tayi-tibble-by-jane-ussher-and-jordan-hamel |access-date=10 December 2021 |work=Newsroom |date=16 June 2021}}</ref> She has previously worked at Toi Māori Aotearoa.<ref name="Pantograph"/>
She has been described by ''The New York Times'' as an "it girl" and style icon.<ref name="Frost"/> In 2021 she appeared in the music video for Lorde's single ''Solar Power''.<ref name="Hamel"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Who’s who in Lorde’s new video 'Solar Power' |url=https://www.ensemblemagazine.co.nz/articles/lorde-solar-power-who-is-who |website=Ensemble Magazine |date=11 June 2021 |access-date=10 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Braunias |first1=Steve |title=A brief history of Lorde, Tayi and Dylan (Thomas) |url=https://www.newsroom.co.nz/a-brief-history-of-lorde-tayi-and-dylan-thomas |access-date=10 December 2021 |work=Newsroom |date=14 June 2021}}</ref> Her poems were included in the show ''UPU'' presented at the Silo Theatre as part of the Auckland Arts Festival in 2020, and at the Kia Mau Festival in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Te Ora |first1=Ethan |title=Kia Mau Festival: UPU celebrates indigenous reality over colonial myth |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/125459041/kia-mau-festival-upu-celebrates-indigenous-reality-over-colonial-myth |access-date=10 December 2021 |work=Stuff |date=17 June 2021}}</ref> She received the award for best personal essay at the 2020 Voyager Media Awards for her essay "Ihumātao: Everyone was there, e hoa".<ref name="New Yorker"/>
In May 2022 Tibble headlined two events at the PEN World Voices festival on international and indigenous poetry.<ref name="Nobody"/> In July 2023 her poem "Creation Story" was published in ''The New Yorker''; she is the fifth New Zealander and first Māori writer to have work published in the magazine.<ref name="New Yorker"/>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-04-2018/poem-for-anzac-day-hoki-mai-by-tayi-tibble "Hoki Mai"], poem by Tibble, in ''The Spinoff'' * [https://nzbooks.org.nz/2018/poem/tayi-tibble-watching-the-boys-play-rugby/ "Watching the Boys Play Rugby"], poem by Tibble, in the Summer 2018 issue of ''New Zealand Review of Books'' * [https://www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/past-issues/2018-contents/tayi-tibble/ "Identity Politics"], poem by Tibble, in the 2018 issue of ''Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems'' * [https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ihumtao-everyone-was-there-e-hoa "Ihumātao: Everyone was there, e hoa"], essay by Tibble that received the award for best personal essay at the 2020 Voyager Media Awards
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