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Hone Tuwhare

Television (Full Length) – 1996

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Gaylene Preston's documentary offers a glimpse into the life, art, and cheeky-as-a-kaka style of late Kiwi poet, Hone Tuwhare. The man with "the big rubber face" (as poet Glenn Colquhoun put it) is seen at home and travelling the country reading his work; polishing a new love poem; visiting old drinking haunts; reading to entranced students; and offering thoughts on everything from The Bible to Karl Marx's love life. He reads some of his best-known poems, including Rain and No Ordinary Sun. Read more about the film (which is sometimes known by the subtitle No Other Lips), from both director Gaylene Preston, and critic Costa Botes.

The stars shall be your pearls upon a string, the world a ruby, for your finger ring.
– Hone Tuwhare

Key Cast & Crew

Alun Bollinger

Cinematographer

Simon Reece

Editor

John Harris

Producer

Hone Tuwhare

Subject

Jonathan Crayford

Composer

Gaylene Preston

Director, Co-Producer, Subject

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Greenstone TV

Source

Greenstone TV

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from NZ On Air

Presented with thanks to the Aotearoa/New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata

Music

Closing credits song 'Molly Malone' performed by Hone Tuwhare

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