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Dear guy that stood in front of me at the gig on Friday
Violet Patterson has their view obscured by someone way too tall to be so close to the stage in this poem for ‘the bad apple mixtape’.
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Gay god
Theo Coles writes of the world that has sunk its teeth in, of the heartbroken poets, of the peach, ocean blue and pink aliveness of a gay god.
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Magpie Man
In this new poem, Laura Hern explores the immediate adversity that comes with being bound in a woman’s body and the frustration at not being able to reach full potential due to normalised societal stigma.
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Whaitara
In this poem for ‘future ANCESTORS’, Tessa Keenan pays homage to Fiona Clark, a Taranaki icon, artist, and exemplary ancestor.
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Vibes based
Eliana Gray put their back out and smoked too much weed.
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Tīpuna Behaviour — imperatives and declarations
For ‘future ANCESTORS’ Miriana Jo McGechie asks “Are you? Can you? Will you? How does your commitment taste?”
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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.
Category: poetry
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