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Yes to Everything
Exploring the opportunities opening up to her, Kim Cope Tait says ‘Yes to Everything’ in this bad apple debut.
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like animals.
Jedidiah Vinzon writes of the awkward instance of having to come out in the middle of a romantic rendezvous at home. With the added stress of a conservative family.
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In a Dunedin loft we paint oceans
Jessica Hinerangi offers forth this poetic response to the Mana Wāhine workshop run by Savannah Kerekere and Michael-Lydia Winiana for Dunedin Fringe Festival 2024.
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Jodie Comer Reads a Love Letter from Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
This villanelle from Mary Craigg is for everyone. From the people who enjoy reading horny letters between long-dead Modernists, to those left aggrieved by that terrible ending to ‘Killing Eve’.
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Possibilism
In this poem remembering a tramping trip in the South Island, Anthony Baker writes about meeting someone and feeling a whole world open up.
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Centurian (2023)
In this poem, Jason Lingard recalls a trip to a gay sauna that is both passionate and a bit awkward.
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Everywhere I go I leave little piles of sand
That was the summer we all got sickgutters flooded with wattle and pine I lived in constant readiness to see a sea lionstraining to sight the waves from my deckstayed up too late sucking the heat from the wallsthank godyou can look at the moon without being blinded I remember the Garden of Edenand life…
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This is not about Chilli and Wendy from Bluey
A poem from Natasha Hope-Johnstone about sapphic yearning and rage at 2:00 pm on a Saturday while drinking tea somewhere in the suburbs of Meanjin/Brisbane.
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The mating dance of otters
Josh Hopton-Stewart’s evolving relationship with body hair bubbles to the surface and he calls on his otter brothers to wear their fuzzy pelts with pride in his first piece for bad apple.
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*Bigots in Training
Wondering if we have ever been truly free in play, olive (blyth) looks at the genealogy of ideology.