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shapeshifting
An amorphous body seeking a form to settle into and call home. Shapeshifting through the past, Rhi speaks the the girl they were and the patchwork being they have become.
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Shorts Films by Tate Fountain
In their first foray into reviewing for bad apple, Kyra Lawler has a cinematic experience. With Tate Fountain’s debut poetry collection ‘Short Films’ in hand, they collect a bouquet of film scripts, letters, notes and vignettes to devour.
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Divorced Adult Gay Seeks Date for Christmas
In the first of our Summer Series, Grace Shelley reflects on Christmases past, unpacks critical hits to the psyche made from across the breakfast table and ponders the future.
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Black Creatives Aotearoa Playwrights’ Lab
Eight plays, four directors and 14 actors. The Black Creatives Aotearoa Playwrights’ Lab Showcase overflowed with talent and potential. Tate Fountain reports on the day’s events.
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Speak its name
A pop poem mash-up of The Ronettes’ ‘Be My Baby’ and Lord Alfred Douglas’ ‘Two Loves’ from Poet Laureate Chris Tse.
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Confessions from the Sick Bay — A Review
Crude Common Denominator Pleb Trash Baseline Urge Ass Poetry: Confessions from the Sick Bay. Possibly the book with the longest name that Harold has ever reviewed for bad apple. Intrigued?
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~spooky vampire film history~
Why are vampires so sexy and why are they in all my TV shows, web series and films? Emma takes a look at a brief history of these fanged folk on screen.
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Like Walt Whitman, but Somehow Hornier
There is no way that Amanda Faye Martin is actually hornier than Walt Whitman (nobody is), but she’s still sort of in love with everything and so has offered this poem.
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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