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Finding Your Fest: Brooke Soulsby’s Verb Picks
Brooke Soulsby gets stuck into the Verb Readers and Writers Festival 2024 programme and tries to make a plan to tackle as many events as she can.
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Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
Before even opening the cover of Patricia Grace’s latest book, ‘Bird Child and Other Stories’, Isla Huia knew she was in for something special. With a quiet reverence, she responds to this valued addition to Māori literature.
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Amma by Saraid de Silva
kī anthony and their sibling explore rage, alienation, and their own fraught family through Saraid de Silva’s ‘Amma’.
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When I open the shop by romesh dissanayake
Hannah Patterson reviews romesh dissanayake’s debut novel ‘When I open the shop’. In which she finds grief, hope, ill-timed hookups, carrot salad and a rainy Remutaka Ranges road trip—among many other things.
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Plastic by Stacey Teague
Through the pages of Stacey Teague’s new poetry collection, ‘Plastic’, Isla Huia holds her breath. When the final poem ends, she comes back up for air to share her thoughts.
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KITTEN by Olive Nuttall
Those who get it, get it. In review of Olive Nuttall’s debut novel, ‘kitten’, kī anthony writes of trans experience. Somehow they also manage to reference ‘Haikyuu!’, Torrey Peters and ‘My Immortal’ along the way.
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Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
Jo Bragg sits down with bad apple contributor Sylvan Spring’s debut poetry collection ‘Killer Rack’ and lets us know whether this is one to read on repeat.
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Dominic Hoey: Dead Birds, Dead Laughter
Dead Bird Books cap their year off with Dominic Hoey’s latest poetry collection, ‘The Dead Are Always Laughing at Us’. Devon Webb chats to Dom about the book, his career and Dead Bird Books heading out on tour.
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Dream Girl by Joy Holley
In this review, Mikee Sto Domingo floats through the gossamer portrait of high femme adolescence and vibey vignettes that make up Joy Holley’s ‘Dream Girl’.
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The Queen’s Wife by Joanne Drayton
Life took an unexpected turn for Joanne Drayton when a chance meeting with another woman turned into something much deeper. ‘The Queen’s Wife’ details the real life story of Joanne and Sue, with each move of the chess game. Frequent bad apple contributor harold considers the queen and her wife in this review.
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Audition by Pip Adam
Pip Adam’s newest book, ‘Audition’ sent Casey Lucas into fervor from which she birthed a review, immediately deleted it and penned this, newer, different review. Read through to get a glimpse of exactly why she did that.
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