takahē 111
Essay
A Xeno in Greece: Ion Corcos
Art
The Art of Jordan Quinnell: Andrew Paul Wood
Comic
Pop another pill: Paul Bourgeois and Mugabi Byenkya
Guest Fiction
fog/fugue: Cassie Hart
Fiction
On the Dawn of the Winter’s Solstice: Susan DeFreitas
Float: Loulou Callister-Baker
Eleanor: Erik Peters
Whitey: Vaughan Rapatahana
The tomatoes in my sapphic cottagecore fantasy are dead now and it’s all because of you: Aroha Witinitara
Matariki Short Short Story Celebration
Gnaw: Catherine Bisley
Sustenance: Sara Bucher
The poets: Joan Fleming
A place to stand: Kim Fulton
One Summer: Zac Hing
Hand Seller: Tara Leckie
Backstroke in a Mud Puddle: Aine Whelan-Kopa
A long time to get home: Annabel Wilson
The curve of the hill home: Iona Winter
Guest Poetry
Five Poems: Jordan Hamel
Poetry
Toto: Hāwea Apiata
How to bear a sudden weight: Jessica Arcus
eyes and bones and all: Rebecca Ball
Paekākā i te Pō I: Hana Buchanan
Two Poems: Nathaniel Calhoun
the Pahi Hotel fire: Brent Cantwell
Two Poems: Hana Damon-Tollenaere
uairean a’ lasadh: Eartha Davis
For Glenn Gould: Sierra Faust
Oak Bracket: Bex Hainsworth
Pulling Ragwort, for 50 Cents an Hour: Michael Hall
The grief of being sick for so long that I forgot how to be gentle sits in my guts like a stone (tomorrow we will buy groceries together and everything will be alright): Niamh Hollis-Locke
Predestination: Lincoln Jaques
Love Thy Neighbour: Hebe Kearney
ode to redwoods: Zia Ravenscroft
My Dog Corduroy the Crime-Fighting Hound: Ray Shipley
Counting the emanations: H. Mark Webster
Cosmetics: Kit Willett
Reviews
Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another edited by Jennifer Cheuk
Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray
Hine Toa by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku
Still Is by Vincent O’Sullivan
The Raven’s Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey
Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong
undressing in slow motion by Michael Giacon
Vultures by Jenny Rockwell
Published by The Takahē Collective Trust.
Chair: Zoë Meager, Erica Stretton; Board Secretary: Melanie Kwang; Treasurer: Sam Dollimore; Art and Comics Editor: Andrew Paul Wood; Fiction and Comics Editor: Zoë Meager; Poetry Editor: Erik Kennedy; Guest Essays Editor: Kelly Ana Morey; Reviews Editor: Ash Davida Jane, Angelique Kasmara; Graphics: Maurice Lye; Marketing: Zoë Meager; Website: Erica Stretton; Copy Editor: Philippa Tucker, Anna Scaife; Competition Secretary: Anjula Prakash; Fiction Readers: Alexis O’Connell, Ben Herriot, Lyndsey Knight, Melanie Kwang, Margaret Moores, Norman Penaia, Leanne Radojkovich, Rebecca Reader, Ruby Solomon, Erica Stretton, Rebecca Styles, Clare Travaglia, Philippa Tucker, Karen Tay, Kathryn Van Beek, Jill Varani, Latika Vasil.
The Takahē Collective Trust affirms and upholds the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Between 1989 and 2022, we published takahē magazine in various digital and print forms from our base in Ōtautahi, and the Trust acknowledges Kāi Tahu as the kaitiaki and takata whenua of that land. Since 2023, the magazine has been published digitally by a more geographically dispersed team. The Trust recognises the mana whenua of all iwi throughout Aotearoa, as well as the traditional owners of other lands.
takahē is produced with the support of Creative NZ.