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Being both
For our ‘future ANCESTORS’ collection, Jo Bragg considers what it means to be someone standing in many different worlds.
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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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The Artist by Ruby Solly
Exploring a verse novel for the first time on bad apple, harold coutts visits the poignant world of Ruby Solly’s ‘The Artist’.
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Pohewa
Poetry finds new form on bad apple through this te reo Māori contribution from Haukupu. Using religious iconography, they play with dialogical form in this piece, ‘Pohewa’, meaning ‘Delusions’.
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Āniwaniwa
Flatmate free amidst shifting lockdown levels, Rua finds a friend for the night. Bathed in the moonglow, the two men find a connection.
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those who made those who made me
Threads present, past, and fibre converge in order to state ownership of a culture colonised and Christianised, of takatāpui.
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Wātaka II: Purea
J. Wiremu Kane goes straight for the throat of colonisation in this thought provoking and visceral prose.