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celestia
‘celestia’ chronicles a messy, magical night of first queer intimacy through both the cinematic and the silly details you fixate on while knowing you will remember something forever.
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For what it’s worth
‘For what it’s worth’ is a poem penned in a frantic reflection of the intoxicating and often nauseating sensation of falling in love when you are young.
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EMDR
Imagine you’ve got trauma. Imagine they say the way to heal is to think a lot about it while watching something move back and forward really fast. Imagine it starts to… help?
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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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floodgates
‘floodgates; is a poem from kī anthony that tiptoes around self-actualisation, desire, and mutual destruction.
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i don’t think necromancy is something you put on a cv
How do you mend the ache in your body that screams “something should be here”? Rebecca Lester doesn’t know, so she wrote this instead.
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Small Town Gay in the City
Mary Mosteller writes a jaded love letter to Uber in this punch-drunk poem.
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Pikitia for Sad Tamariki
Time for a reo Māori lesson with Nicola Andrews. Kupu hou o te rā? Takatāpui.
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Becoming an AUP New Poet
What’s it like to become of of AUP’s new poets? Frequent bad apple contributor harold talks to their experience joining this star-studded cohort of local poets. Plus, one of their poems featured in AUP New Poets 9.
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Kinda cannibalistic
‘Kinda cannibalistic’ tells half a story of returning back home, always. It is the beginning of an examination, a contrast, between the Pākehā world and te ao Māori through ideologies of biblical text and their effect on the Māori world.
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Whati
This poem is a deep dive into another form of displacement that occurs with people from the diaspora. It is told from the perspective of someone who is from the diaspora, takatāpui, AFAB, born and raised in an urban setting, and all of the ways colonisation and its agents attempt to continue displacing her even…
Category: poetry
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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