The Kaumatua:
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was a beach become a swamp and a headland and tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever.(336)
The Bone People won the Booker Prize (1985) and the Pegasus Prize for Maori Literature (1984).
Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations). Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1982. (poems)
the bone people. Wellington: Spiral, 1983.
Lost Possessions. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1985.
The Windeater=Te Kaihau. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1986.
Homeplaces: Three Coasts of the South Island, with Robin Morrison. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.
Strands. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1992. (poems)
"Mauri : an introduction to bi-cultural poetry in New Zealand." East and West. Guy Amirthanayagam and S.C. Harrex(eds.). Adelaide & Honolulu : Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English and East-West Center, 1981. pp.290-310
"Keri Hulme." Broadsheet. 110:33-36; Jun 1983. Biography, poetry.
"Myth, omen, ghost and dream (more than you ever wanted to know about Maori spirituality and religion)." Poetry of the Pacific region : proceedings of the CRNLE/SPACLALS Conference, Paul Sharrad (ed.). Adelaide : Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English, 1984. pp.31-38
"Books: Turning heads." Listener. 121(2525):53-54; 23 Jul 1988.
"The pluperfect pa-wa." Sport. 1:9-13; Spring 1988. (Short story)
"Hinekaro goes on a picnic and blows up another obelisk." Vital Writing. 3:14-21; 1991/92. (Short story)
"Te rua haeroa o te tokotoru." Ms. 2.4:78-79; Jan-Feb 1992.
"Great escape reading." Evening Post. p.9; 24 Dec 1992.
"Some foods you should try not to encounter." Sport. 8:139-142; Aut 1992. (Short story)
"bait." New Zealand Geographic. 17:50-68; Jan/Mar 1993.
"Reconsidering the bone people." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada. 12:135-154; Dec 1994.
"Sometimes I dream I'm driving." Sport. 15:38-43; Oct 1995. (Short story)
"Moeraki conversations 2." Occupation : Journal of the Otago Polytechnic Dept of Occupational Therapy. 3(1):23; Apr 1995.
"Floating words." Landfall. 194:243-252; Spr 1997. (Short story)
amazon.com has a candid interview/message from Hulme concerning her work habits, the vagaries of contemporary communication and fanmail.
The University of Auckland has an extensive bibliography of book reviews and other secondary sources.
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