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Pausanias Explains My Sexuality to Me
In a fit of surreal uneroticism, Dani Yourukova goes to rope class with their flatmate’s Tinder date and has a cry in front of some conspicuously well-adjusted members of the kink community.
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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.
Category: poetry
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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