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Finding Your Fest: Brooke Soulsby’s Verb Picks
Brooke Soulsby gets stuck into the Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024 programme and tries to make a plan to tackle as many events as she can.
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Being both
For our ‘future ANCESTORS’ collection, Jo Bragg considers what it means to be someone standing in many different worlds.
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april is for poets
kī anthony introduces Global Poetry Writing Month and shares a little about their personal practice.
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The Editor’s Ten — A 2023 Reflection
Lead Editor Damien Levi reflects on what bad apple has been up to this year, gets a little sentimental and ultimately rounds off the year with ten of his favourite pieces from the many published works in 2023.
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Hey, This Election Fucking Sucks!
It’s been an “oily, queasy and deeply disheartening” few months. And yet, there is still hope. Emma Maguire challenges and encourages uneasy voters to act in these final days.
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The Phantasmagoria of Avatar
In this marathon essay delving into the world of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’, Eamonn Tee explores the biology of Pandora. On the journey to make it make sense, he manages to include NCEA Level 2, Hannah Montana, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, The Humongous Fungus and a whole host of other references.
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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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Submissions open for FRAMED!
bad apple has another event headed your way, this time for National Poetry Day 2023! Submissions are officially open and we will be publishing one poem from EVERYONE who submits!
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In Defense of Gay Villainy
“Don’t you just wanna go apeshit?” Many games provide players with a baked-in morality systems. Martin asks players to throw those virtual social obligations in the garbage can. Bad is Sexy.
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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.
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Moonlighting
A piece by Dani Yourukova in which a dungeon-crawling, adventure game is also secretly about the relationship between value and time, the evils of capitalism, and the financial precarity that comes with being a working artist.
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