From Taranaki poet Debbie Broughton, 'The Ani Waaka Room' is a collection of poems that celebrate the survival of Taranaki ancestors who were forced by war to leave their homelands for Te Aro Pā. The poems weave together ancestor and descendent, Taranaki and Te Aro, family stories and government atrocities.

‘The Ani Waaka Room’ is a challenge to those who ignore mana whenua in cities, and rongoā for those who know Papatūānuku breathes beneath layers of concrete.

‘If you want to know what resistance looks like, start here, with Debbie Broughton, whose stunning debut collection reconstructs the world that was taken from our tūpuna, and so creates a pathway back for all the tamariki mokopuna of Te Aro Pā and beyond.’

Dr Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa) author of ‘The Parihaka Album’

‘What I love about this book is that it contains all the knowledge, all the history, all the indignation that the best of us carry – and yet it chooses not to take itself, or the coloniser, too seriously. It’s the elevated art of the piss-take, humour layers on irony layered on collage the coloniser’s own words presented back to them on the sharpened tip of a knife.’

 Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore) author of ‘The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke’ and ‘Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings’

The Ani Waaka Room is available to purchase by clicking here: https://tetakupu.wananga.com/