I thought about doing an end-of-year list of poems I loved from 2019 then got a bit overwhelmed by how much good stuff there is [however I did talk about some poems I really loved from this year on this poetry shelf post, here] so I’m sticking to one poem (this might be the start … More on Simone Kaho’s work in Takahē 95
fetal There is the sense of life being cut short. A sense of things being forced into different shapes. I think it works as a foreshadowing of the ‘Con-ception’ a piece further on in the book. Here is the risk of life. I like its form a lot I like the page to act as … More ransack annotations 4: fetal
the nonbinary individual So this started out as a lyric essay and it is the first of three parts that kind of divide the book in two, ‘the nonbinary individual’, ‘enby’ and ‘takatāpui’ kind of relate a moving closer to te Ao Māori and the body. Anyways I get ahead of myself; ‘the nonbinary individual’ … More ransack annotations 3: the nonbinary individual
Blog posts that reflect on some or all of the poems in my debut poetry collection ransack. This is really not going to make much sense if you haven’t read the book – sorry. Also if I try and polish all of these posts then I won’t write any of them so expect confusing sentence … More ransack annotations one: a start
essa may ranapiri 