Review
Some helpful models of grief on RNZ
Book critic Anna Rankin reviews Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme.
July 22, 2025
LITERATURE · POETRY
(Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Tainui/Waikato) Artist, poet, writer, and curator; author of A bathful of kawakawa and hot water (Compound Press, 2020) and Blame it on the rain (No More Poetry, 2025). Hana lives in Kawerau in the shadow of Pūtauaki maunga, and is a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology.
LITERATURE · POETRY
Poet, playwright, editor, critic, and dramaturge. His poetry collections Letters And Paragraphs (Caxton Press, 1987), Fool Moon (AUP, 2004), and Shaggy Magpie Songs (AUP, 2015) were finalists for the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company’s scripts.
Book critic Anna Rankin reviews Some helpful models of grief by Hana Pera Aoake on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme.
Petroglyphs a new poetry collection by Craig Foltz is reviewed by Mary Macpherson in The Landfall Tauraka Review, the online companion to Aotearoa New Zealand’s longest-running literary journal.
the prism and the rose in Takahē magazine issue 113, published April 2025, by The Takahē Collective Trust.
Reviewed by Erik Kennedy in Landfall Review Online. For what is essentially a bunch of smashed-up china in a pile, the prism and the rose looks remarkably good. It reads very easily, and even enjoyably. As you can imagine, it’s not simple to quote this kind of writing, even for review purposes.