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Dedication
Always Becominging finds all the rhymes (perfect and imperfect) for this contribution to ‘the bad apple mixtape’.
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Boléro
For ‘the bad apple mixtape’ Laura Vincent goes mad after ‘Boléro’.
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To the world I love and live.
Ivy Lyden-Hancy hears the songs of tangihanga and the karanga to Te Rerenga Wairua in this contribution to ‘the bad apple mixtape’.
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THESE DAYS
Local music drives Devon Webb’s contribution to ‘the bad apple mixtape’, taking its name and inspiration after a BADTAB song.
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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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1.5 to 5mls
Damien Levi would like to apologise in advance to anyone who looks up the sculpture that inspired this work. It’s a lot. Yeehaw cowboy.
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Ancestors in Museums
Moana Murray writes across the ocean, to ancestors held against their will in foreign lands who were taken unwilling.
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Little Creatures
In ekphrastic form Jackson McCarthy revels in the procession of creatures revelling in Fiona Lee Graham’s ‘Nature’s Calling’.
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narcissus by caravaggio, oil on canvas
When you have this much in common with someone, loving them is really loving yourself twice. Sometimes, it’s okay to fall into the water.
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Ways of falling
A visual poem unearthed and reinvented, ‘Ways of falling’ by Sherry Zhang is “a poem is about the tension between the kind of tender familial love I grew up with as, the juxtaposition with it’s conditional performance with conservative filial piety expectations.”
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le lit
For FRAMED! Kyra Lawler gives us a poem through the sleepy, warm and comfortable eyes of two women tucked up in bed.