Some helpful models of grief / Hana Pera Aoake

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Poems by Hana Pera Aoake
Illustrations by Priscilla Rose Howe
Published June 2025
ISBN 9781067072704

A composite chronicle of different kinds of love and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems use radiate with Aoake’s characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and humour, often all within the very same breath. The personal is the political is the personal.

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Praise for A bathful of kawakawa and hot water

Hybrid in form and theme, what cyborg melts hierarchies, what cyborg turns the gender binary to dust, what cyborg fights for our mana motuhake? This one! Read this book and then do something about it.

—essa may ranapiri

Writing with radical tenderness, with beauty and pain and precision, Hana Pera Aoake envisions an anticapitalist, de-colonial, Indigenous way of living and being, transcending the borders of poetry and prose in a style similar to that of Claudia Rankine and Layli Long Soldier. A bathful of kawakawa and hot water is an essential poetic text in the literature of Aotearoa, and a call to action at the end of the world.

—Nina Mingya Powles

Part memoir, part myth, part rant, part dream, part chant… This is an exciting and poignant book from one of my favourite NZ writers.

—Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

About the author

Author photo of Hana Pera AoakeHana (Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Hinerangi) is an artist and writer based in Waikouaiti on stolen Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe and Waitaha lands. They are keen to restart the land wars and love eating kaimoana and defacing colonial property.