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Creation of Adam / Destruction of Eve
Vin Mahadevan leans on a cliché cultural allusion in his gloriously transsexual poem
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Rest in Power: Evening Books, 2022–2025
grace cowley eulogises the Ōtepoti institution that was Evening Books and thanks Frances Pavletich for her contribution to the community.
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The Healing Power of Homosex on Screen
Erin Ramsay sings the praises of the light that the gay hockey show has brought to our dark and gloomy world.
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three spell(ing)s
In three poems, olive bly plays with pink brains, stands in the kitchen on election day, and sings the granny smith blues.
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i want a queer future now!!!
This poem explores the feeling of being alienated within a gendered body and the desire for a future outside our cisnormative world.
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Following cars with mostly straight boys (1991)
Megan Clayton answers Josiah Morgan’s ‘Riding in Cars with (Mostly Straight) Boys’ with the gendered recollection of an earlier generation.
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Learning Not to Leave
Liberty Armstrong responds to Claudia’s poem ‘The L Word’ by taking on her own journey of self-reflection and acceptance.
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Twisted Associates
Alexandra Cherian re-imagines a post-apocalyptic tale as a found poem on colonisation’s effect on te taiao.




