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Texas Chainsaw Massacre — A Response
Confronted with the durational work interpretation of Josiah Morgan’s book ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ Alex de Vries tries to experience the moment.
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Jodie Comer Reads a Love Letter from Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
This villanelle from Mary Craigg is for everyone. From the people who enjoy reading horny letters between long-dead Modernists, to those left aggrieved by that terrible ending to ‘Killing Eve’.
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PEER REVIEW
In response to Mx. Well’s ‘Gender Marxist’ at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, Liz Breslin pens a prose poetry piece where academic overthinking meets academically titled comedy.
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Amma by Saraid de Silva
kī anthony and their sibling explore rage, alienation, and their own fraught family through Saraid de Silva’s ‘Amma’.
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Possibilism
In this poem remembering a tramping trip in the South Island, Anthony Baker writes about meeting someone and feeling a whole world open up.
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When I open the shop by romesh dissanayake
Hannah Patterson reviews romesh dissanayake’s debut novel ‘When I open the shop’. In which she finds grief, hope, ill-timed hookups, carrot salad and a rainy Remutaka Ranges road trip—among many other things.
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The Ocean Dome
In Miyazaki, Japan, 1993, the Ocean Dome’s retractable roof slid open and the sun bathed the artificial landscape. For Billie Angus, the Ocean Dome still stands as an enduring presence on the periphery—their feet buried in its sand.
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Satisfaction of Touch (A Response to ‘Our Jurisdiction’)
Eliana Gray tries to move along “through spaces of physical reality and psychological stipulations,” in this review of dance work ‘Our Jurisdiction’.
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Hugo
Josiah Morgan’s friend Hugo once said, “For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to reincarnate as a seagull. Live on a rock with all my friends, squawk shit, fly around, steal peoples chips. That’s gotta be my dream. Can you imagine how great it would feel.” This is a poem about that. Kinda.
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From the Editor — A 2024 Reflection
Lead editor Damien Levi tries to sum up bad apple’s 2024 in retrospect, with a selection of ten pieces to read over the summer.
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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