An Hour with Tayi Tibble

Tayi Tibble in conversation with Louis Pinker Meihana at the 2024 Marlborough Book Festival

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Porou) is a poet and writer. Her first collection of poetry, Poūkahangatus, won the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Tayi’s second book, Rangikura was shortlisted for the 2022 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham Awards.

Her work has been published in various journals and magazines. 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. Her essay, On Being Skux, is one of the most-read pieces ever published in the Pantograph Punch. In 2018 she read her poem Hoki Mai at an Anzac Day parade attended by 25,000 people in Wellington.