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Whakapapa Portraits
The wharenui at Rongopai Marae is lined with paintings of a whakapapa full of life and colour. For ‘future ANCESTORS’, Sinead Overbye considers what it means to one day join those walls as tīpuna.
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in every other universe
bram casey writes on his learned refusal to change himself for others, found through falling for someone who had no clue what he wanted.
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korowai
Tucked in the back of her aunty’s whip with all the whakapapa, from tīpuna to mokopuna, Isla Huia shares this poem for ‘future ANCESTORS’.
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slip / knot
Josiah Morgan explores the responsibility we have not just to our material ancestors and descendants, but also to language itself, and our responsibilities to indulge or eschew our own cultural contexts.
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Germaphobe
In this piece, Zen explores their struggles with germaphobia and how that tied into their experience of depression and self loathing.
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A Hopeful Ancestor
For ‘future ANCESTORS’ Jessica Hinerangi T.C reflects upon what kind of ancestor she is right now, what kind her mokopuna will see her as, what kind she would like to be and what kind she will inevitably end up becoming.
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i wonder
Chris Girven wrote this poem after having an existential crisis on their bedroom floor.
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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’.
Category: poetry
In a dream, you saw a way to survive, and you were filled with joy.
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