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Cows Over Vitebsk
This poem draws inspiration from not just one painting but Marc Chagall’s broader depictions of “anthropomorphised” animals, particularly cows, and the blurring of the human and non-human that they represent.”
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Calliope
In his bad apple debut, William Holden pens this poem to our goddess Calliope.
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Three Witches
Originally written for The Dowse’s ‘Sisterly’ exhibition, Cadence Chung shares this work of witchiness with us. When Desire, Muse and Moonlight meet, magic is bound to happen.
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One must imagine Sisyphus shredded
From one of Casey Lucas’s favourite Romantic paintings this poem was birthed. It is about “looking at beautiful stuff, and subtly about my own frustrations with how both hiking and this painting are frequently used to convey MOTIVATIONAL FITNESS MESSAGES instead of just being about appreciating a beautiful thing.”
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girl crying
Giovanni Bragolin was prolific for his series of paintings of crying children and the urban legend of the cursed ‘crying boy’, but the print this poem by Jose Thomas is about isn’t that one, and maybe this print is actually cursed.
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Creation
The beginning of the world, or the end of it, is the subject of this poem by Maddie Fenn. It is inspired by the feminist artist Alexis Hunter’s painting ‘CREATION’, as well as W.B Yeat’s poem ‘The Second Coming’. Hunter’s work always puts the body at stake, and here we are at the moment of…
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clytemnestra by john collier
Blood trickles over marble and a challenge is made in this poetic response to Clytemnestra from Hebe Kearney.
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Portrait of a sad girl
For FRAMED!, Amelia Kirkness draws inspiration from the field of art restoration (and a past obsession with the Baumgartner YouTube channel) to create something new.
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Heave is a Blue Room
Commissioned by City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi in response to the exhibition ‘Imagined in the Context of a Room: the works of Joanna Margaret Paul’ – ‘Heaven is a Blue Room’ is a poem which pays homage to the longstanding, sensational impact and delicate nature of Margaret Paul’s practice in Aotearoa.
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The Seven Sorrows of Mary
Mary Mosteller writes to the Immaculate Heart bearing her name, hung in the home of her grandparents —weighing heavy over her.
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ancestor technologies
Silk, cynotype and Prussian Blue collide in context of this poem from Rachel Lockwood inspired by Stella Brennan’s ‘Ancestor Technologies’ exhibition.
Category: poetry
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