the prism and the rose Book Launch
Compound Press presents the launch event for the prism and the rose and the late poems, the posthumous debut collection by Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021), at Lamplight Books in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Readings by fellow poets Lisa Samuels and Sam Sampson. Facebook Event Photos on Instagram
the prism and the rose on RNZ
Book critic Anna Rankin reviews the prism and the rose and the late poems by Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021) on Radio New Zealand National as part of the Jesse Mulligan Afternoons programme. Also covered: The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa by Catherine Comyn, published by Economic and Social Research Aotearoa (2023) Listen on the RNZ website
A bathful of kawakawa and hot water on Consumer NZ
Community Journalist / Kaihaurapa Kōrero Hapori at Consumer NZ highlights A bathful of kawakawa and hot water by Hana Pera Aoake as part of a feature on Māori art and culture for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Read on the Consumer NZ website
Dreams
Modern fever with Josephine Frances K
Autograph (The Little Green Glove)
A contemporary burlesque by Alison Glenny
Composite Sketch of My Enemy
A poem by Erik Kennedy
Fragments of an Overheard Conversation Between Two Late-Autumn Roses in a Country Churchyard During the 6th Mass Extinction Event & a Nor’Wester (with a Partially Faded Copy of their Reading Material)
A bucolic dirge by Jasmine Gallagher
Colour Theory (Primary)
Schematic poetics by Tate Fountain
Expert
A poem by Nikki-Lee Birdsey
Four Untitled
Poems by Maureen Alsop