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Creation of Adam / Destruction of Eve
Vin Mahadevan leans on a cliché cultural allusion in his gloriously transsexual poem.
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Rest in Power: Evening Books, 2022–2025
grace cowley eulogises the Ōtepoti institution that was Evening Books and thanks Frances Pavletich for her contribution to the community.
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the apple does not fall far from you because you won’t set it free
Isabel 玥 Li finds themself tangled in the roots.
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fixtures
Elliot reflects on lost lovers and those who have slipped soundlessly from their life.
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The Healing Power of Homosex on Screen
Erin Ramsay sings the praises of the light that the gay hockey show has brought to our dark and gloomy world.
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three spell(ing)s
In three poems, olive bly plays with pink brains, stands in the kitchen on election day, and sings the granny smith blues.
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i want a queer future now!!!
This poem explores the feeling of being alienated within a gendered body and the desire for a future outside our cisnormative world.
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Learning Not to Leave
Liberty Armstrong responds to Claudia’s poem ‘The L Word’ by taking on her own journey of self-reflection and acceptance.
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Twisted Associates
Alexandra Cherian re-imagines a post-apocalyptic tale as a found poem on colonisation’s effect on te taiao.
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the st8 of things
bram casey sticks his fingers down his throat and this is what comes out. he’s scared, and tired, and busy, and living for each moment as it arrives and really, really excited. like, always.
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The Magpies Who Remember Your Face
In this new poem, Francis Aschoff weaves memory into the present by challenging creatures of habit to change their ways.


