Issue 15 / 2025

Editor’s note

This one remains to be an ode for those who cannot sleep, for those who can and cannot grieve, and for those that live in interrupted durée.

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In pursuit of generating a critical dialogue on borders, colonial nations and settler states, we have invited artists and writers to record their relation to these interrogations.

The fragmentation of the “South Asian” identity and its diaspora through the nation state’s homogeneity, has led to the erasure of spaces and its people. We have invited these interventions to ground themselves in Aotearoa, and in writing from this place, to understand borders, homogeneity, and the erasure of these spaces and people from “South Asia”.

We hope that this issue helps us arrive to the

memory of a place,

memory of a martyr,

memory of fleeing,

memory of reaching,

memory of a scent,

memory of a loved one,

memory of a home or many.

We hope that this issue holds space for all the grief that may come through this fragmentation, and together, creates an archive of spacio- temporal interventions by these poets.

—Nirvana Haldar