Robert Sullivan (poet)

Robert Sullivan
Sullivan, 2011
Born1967 (age 5758)
Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationPoet, academic, editor
EducationPhD, University of Auckland
Period1990–

Robert Sullivan (born 1967) is a Māori poet, academic and editor. His published poetry collections include Jazz Waiata (1990), Star Waka (1999) and Shout Ha! to the Sky (2010). His books have a postmodern quality and "explore social and racial subjects, and aspects of Māori tradition and history." He is "widely seen as one of the most important contemporary Māori poets".