He's kept us waiting for more than a decade but writer Robert Sullivan has just published a new poetry collection in which he examines both his Maori and Pakeha lineage. The poems in Tunui Comet are deeply personal. They encompass the distant past and the future, while Te Reo and English stand confidently together in some of the works. Lynn Freeman talks with Robert - who's currently teachng at Waitaki Boys High School in Oamaru. He reads one of the poems from the collection - and it's a true story: Robert Sullivan' s Tunui Comet is published by Auckland University Press.