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Waterview Tunnel song
This poem is about the absurdity of love, tunnels, Tinder, and singing in the car.
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A Delusional Review of ‘Hi, Delusion!’
It starts with a bad date, and ends with a bloated body swinging from the rafters—is it a typical night out in Auckland, or is it Johanna Cosgrove’s new show Hi, Delusion!? Here’s Naomii Seah with a fresh review.
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floodgates
‘floodgates; is a poem from kī anthony that tiptoes around self-actualisation, desire, and mutual destruction.
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it’s a dog eat dog world
Have you ever been overwhelmed by your intrusive thoughts? What if one day, you gave in? All it takes is just one decision…
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Hayley Sproull’s Ailments — A Review
“A dead kidney, a weak bladder, a full beard and a uterus shaped like the devil—Hayley Sproull’s body is a constant source of mild disappointment.”. In her NZ International Comedy Festival show, Hayley shares all this and more, so we sent along Tate Fountain to get the full list of Ailments.
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i don’t think necromancy is something you put on a cv
How do you mend the ache in your body that screams “something should be here”? Rebecca Lester doesn’t know, so she wrote this instead.
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Small Town Gay in the City
Mary Mosteller writes a jaded love letter to Uber in this punch-drunk poem.
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Pikitia for Sad Tamariki
Time for a reo Māori lesson with Nicola Andrews. Kupu hou o te rā? Takatāpui.
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To Be Queer in the Aotearoa Summer
“Rather than rural spaces being intrinsically homophobic, I think that there are inaccurate assumptions of queer folk present”. Inspired by the lived experience of queer people, Mik writes about how looking queer impacts experience of place in regional New Zealand.