Big Fat Brown Bitch #23: She receives an election year visit from Christopher Luxon If you are sitting in a garage in South Auckland with your two brothers, tell your sisters to stand outside on the street, flag down flash cars and check for gang members or members of parliament. If you are sitting in…
Threads by Karen Zelas. Pūkeko Publications (2022). RRP: $25.00. Pb.130pp. ISBN 9780473656867. Reviewed by Hester Ullyart. Karen Zelas’ latest collection, Threads, is a love letter to family lines; past, present, future. Opening poems fall under the hush of ‘I want to say…’; here Zelas uses her most supple tool to hand – the word –…
Claudia Jardine Photography by Petra Mingneau We talk to the author of Biter, published April 2023, our guest poet for Takahē 107. The best poetry, like yours, shows strong themes, perhaps what could be called obsessions. Theway you use ‘double-cab utes in an urban environment’ in pieces with completely differentsubjects was really neat. Would you…
Dead Pets and Three men in a lift, two poems by Tim Upperton, featured in takahē 105
#524 Instead I wait, I wait for the rain, a poem by Ashlee-Ann Sneller, featured in takahē 105