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night etymologies
Grace Shelley sings of the world and all held in it for her son in this poem for ‘the bad apple mixtape’.
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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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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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Rinse and repeat
Taking inspiration from the line “rinse and repeat” in Tayi Tibble’s poem ‘In the 1960s an Influx of Māori Women’, Grace feels the hopelessness of life’s repititious activities, and the silliness of shrugging of life’s awfulness and getting on with it anyway.