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
The Alphabet Is Not Designed for Reading
Craig Foltz responds to The L’s (2019) by Judy Annear