takahē 116 - takahē

Fiction
severed breasts: Dorian Mackle Bayley
Cake: Clare Needham
Kāore he putanga/No way out: Vaughan Rapatahana
Laundry: Isabella Smith
An answer for everything: Iona Winter
Blue Moon: Sue Wootton

Guest Poetry
Five poems: Always Becominging

Poetry
Odd bod: J E Blaikie
umbral: Jonathan Chan
My First Issue of Ms.: Jennifer Compton
Two poems: David Eggleton
Schist: Rhian Gallagher
Two poems: Eliana Gray
The wall: Jackson
the archer: Amelia Kirkness
Piano Lessons: Cindy Kurukaanga
overhead lighting: Tara Leckie
bending toward the light: Tim Loveday
Representation from the embassy of Aeaea: Olivia Macassey
Lime Cordial: Kacey Martin
The grind: Elliot McKenzie
Herne Bay in the Year of Our Lord 2025: Carrie Rudzinski
Spleen: Will Salmon
上海夏天: Emma Shi
In writing: Jane Simpson

Reviews
Childish Palate, by Shariff Burke
Giving Birth to My Father, by Tusiata Avia
My Bourgeois Apocalypse, by Helen Rickerby
Party Boy, by Breton Dukes
The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul, by Richard Langston
The Work of Angels, by Anisha Sankar
What to Wear, by Jenny Bornholdt

Published by The Takahē Collective Trust.

Art and Comics Editor: Andrew Paul Wood; Guest Essays Editor: Philippa Tucker; Fiction and Comics Editor: Zoë Meager; Poetry Editor: Erik Kennedy; Reviews Editor: Ash Davida Jane, Angelique Kasmara; Board Secretary: Melanie Kwang; Chair: Zoë Meager; Copy Editor: Philippa Tucker; Cover Design: Maurice Lye; Marketing: Zoë Meager; Treasurer: Sam Dollimore; Fiction Readers: Ben Herriot, Clare Travaglia, Jill Varani, Latika Vasil, Leanne Radojkovich, Lyndsey Knight, Margaret Moores, Melanie Kwang, Philippa Tucker, Rebecca Reader, Rebecca Styles, Ruby Solomon.

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.