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only 20
KC Marshall explores a turmoil-filled relationship in her early twenties and its impacts on her mental health both at the time and years later.
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someone on Reddit
In their bad apple debut, Zoë Deans gives us ‘someone of Reddit’. “In the wake of the 2023 election, we’re all just jetsam.”
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tradie girl winter
In this poem, Rebecca Lester gives you an amalgamation of three loves lost—two former partners, and herself. (Disclaimer: she has never been a tradie.)
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carmilla brings us home
Freya Turnbull is totally normal about vampires. ‘carmilla brings us home’ travels through ‘deviant’ desire and sinks its teeth into queer love just in time for Halloween.
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und elect able
Charlotte Forsyth offers up a poem full of taste, reflecting on the oddity and inertia of a general election.
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an automatic aggravating factor
Callum Knight takes out his digital eraser in this ‘black out’ poem attempting to ‘fix’ the New Zealand First Policy page.
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politik
“ARE YOU NOT TERRIFIED?” harold coutts asks what we’re all thinking in their new poem, ‘politik’.
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a story in ten parts
One day it is the past, and you’re not sure if you’re going to survive. The next it is the future, and you’re alive and reckoning with what that means. It is a crossroads, an intersection of memory, suffering, and longing.
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what David Seymour needs is a stone top
Private Browsing Mode: Activated Independent Masculine Essence Available Now…Limited Time Only. kī anthony is honestly so cursed for this poem about D*vid S*ymour.
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pews and pleas and pearls and please
Emma Morrison worships women like God, aka Sapphic Catholicism guessed at by someone who’s never been in a church.
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Liam Jacobson’s Anti-Gentrification of Poetry
Devon Webb chats to Liam Jacobson about their debut poetry collection, ‘Neither’, finding inspiration, spoken word and getting involved with Dead Bird Books.
Category: poetry
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