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in our universe
ella sage respons to bram casey’s ‘in every other universe’ through this love letter essay to friendship and queer camaraderie.
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just geese
Hebe Kearney conjures ‘Wild Geese’ and its many iterations via Hera Lindsay Bird, Rebecca Hawkes and all the other poets with fondness for Mary Oliver.
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Spellbound by francis aschoff
Brooke Soulsby explores the sacred spaces that construct francis aschoff’s debut poetry collection ‘Spellbound’.
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Very Good, In Fact
Maddie Ballard writes after Sophie van Waardenberg’s debut collection ‘No Good’, and engages in a Q&A with the author.
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e kō, nō hea koe by Matariki Bennett
Kahu Kutia sees a mirror of Māori youth reflected back on her through Matariki Bennett’s debut poetry collection ‘e kō, nō hea koe’
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My Puppet Who Sighs in Pearl Shavings — A Response
Brooke Soulsby considers, imagines and interprets the debut show from Landfish Productions, ‘My Puppet Who Sighs in Pearl Shavings’.
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This Must Be The Place
Surrounded by the ruins of another iteration of their fuck-ass mullet, an empty bottle of red, and another haphazard cryptic Spotify playlist, Maggs realises she still does not know how to have casual sex.
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Another Poem About the Gardener and the Boy
Queer longings emerge from the mundane in this poem by Filipino writer Joefel Bolo.
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scrambling to write in our own language: a stream of consciousness review of Death Goddess Guide to Self Love by Carin Smeaton
Josiah Morgan pours out his consciousness on the page to share an experience of Carin Smeaton’s new poetry collection ‘Death Goddess Guide to Self Love’.
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Sweetie — A Response
Sazzok swoons over Johanna Cosgrove and all her high-femme, soft-dom, theatre-kid energy in her new comedy show ‘Sweetie’.
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Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray
In reviewing Lee Murray’s ‘Fox Spirit on A Distant Cloud’, Naomii Seah finds herself asking for more from the work and for those it depicts.


