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politik
“ARE YOU NOT TERRIFIED?” harold coutts asks what we’re all thinking in their new poem, ‘politik’.
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Staring into the bright future of ASHA
Afro-Carribbean singer-songwriter ASHA chats to Callum Knight about a their recent single, dream collaboration and embodying being a Black Femme artist.
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a story in ten parts
One day it is the past, and you’re not sure if you’re going to survive. The next it is the future, and you’re alive and reckoning with what that means. It is a crossroads, an intersection of memory, suffering, and longing.
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The Artist by Ruby Solly
Exploring a verse novel for the first time on bad apple, harold coutts visits the poignant world of Ruby Solly’s ‘The Artist’.
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what David Seymour needs is a stone top
Private Browsing Mode: Activated Independent Masculine Essence Available Now…Limited Time Only. kī anthony is honestly so cursed for this poem about D*vid S*ymour.
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Rating This Year’s Political Party Slogans, Because I’m too Depressed by this Election to Focus on Anything Else
Hannah Marshall queues up their hot takes on a selection of political slogans for the 2023 New Zealand General Election. Who will come out on top (no, not TOP)?
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pews and pleas and pearls and please
Emma Morrison worships women like God, aka Sapphic Catholicism guessed at by someone who’s never been in a church.
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Liam Jacobson’s Anti-Gentrification of Poetry
Devon Webb chats to Liam Jacobson about their debut poetry collection, ‘Neither’, finding inspiration, spoken word and getting involved with Dead Bird Books.
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Is This All That You Had In Mind? — A Review
bad apple reviewer Samantha Cheong dives into absurd waters in this story of a predatory dissatisfaction demon—will she leave feeling buoyed or will dissatisfaction pull her under?
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Dominic Hoey: Dead Birds, Dead Laughter
Dead Bird Books cap their year off with Dominic Hoey’s latest poetry collection, ‘The Dead Are Always Laughing at Us’. Devon Webb chats to Dom about the book, his career and Dead Bird Books heading out on tour.
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