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- [Ash Plot](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ash-plot/) - I’ve been watching writer John Green’s YouTube channel The Vlog Brothers, where he and his brother Hank post videos to each other. They’ve been doing this for seventeen years. One of John’s recent vlogs was about how nothing makes him a liar quite like the future. He says, ‘Hank, one of my many problems is
- [My First Issue of <I>Ms.</i>](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-first-issue-of-ms/) - I was at Auckland Airport.It was the late ’70s.I needed (needed!) something to readso I lobbed up at the newsstand. Unhopefully. But there it was.The youngish guy who sold it mesaid dolefully—‘There aren't a lot of laughs.’ But as I said when I wrote to them—I get enough laughs alreadystuffing a mushroom. (Not that I ever
- [Spleen](https://www.takahe.org.nz/spleen/) - My nephew describes a string of objects he found by the estuary: the separated eyes of aplastic dog, the paper wings of a miniature plane, apple stickers. And already when he camein I could tell that something was wrong, seeing him looking up at the ceiling and rubbing hishead the way his mother, my sister-in-law, would,
- [Lime Cordial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/lime-cordial/) - It came to me young, that lime-cordial sweetness with its surge then turning in on itself. // And I saw it in the iris of a boy I kissed; a boy who didn’t make it past the rope. Remember flecks of citrine, perhaps just mnestic afterglow. // Later, double-stacked green hearts would get us wide-eyed
- [Piano Lessons](https://www.takahe.org.nz/piano-lessons/) - Friday afternoons of my childhood are a vivid trinity;black, white, and Sister Tarcisius. On Hush Puppy cloud, her binary-hued habit floats, welcomes. Barely two octaves tall, with arms flung wide beaming, she wraps me, wholly. She greets in whisper,guides through the convent hall.All polished glory, perfect in its pureness,but for me not a note out of key. The door opens to
- [Party Boy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/party-boy/) - Party Boy by Breton Dukes. THWUP (2026). RRP: $38.00. PB, 320pp. ISBN: 9781776923038. Reviewed by Niamh Hollis-Locke. In 2022, spurred by the 2014 conviction of former Otago Boys High School (OBHS) teacher David Bond for indecent assault against a student in the 1970s, and the wave of further convictions which followed, author Breton Dukes began
- [Cake](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cake/) - ‘I baked this for you.’ He presents me with a square metal tin, on its lid a photograph of a golden retriever. A friend of a friend, he is tall with dark hair and a goatee. We are in the kitchen of his flat near the University, our mutual connection in the next room with
- [Kāore he putanga/No way out   ](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kaore-he-putanga/) - Assignment three: Imaginative essay. (c) Gangs are a continuing issue of concern. Imagine you or a persona are a member of a New Zealand gang. Describe an occasion where you take part in gang activity. In your essay, try to show a reader possible reasons why an individual might join a gang, and depict how
- [Giving Birth to My Father](https://www.takahe.org.nz/giving-birth-to-my-father/) - Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia. THWUP (2025). RRP: $30.00. PB, 112pp. ISBN: 9781776922918. Reviewed by Hebe Kearney. I set aside time to write this review on the 5th March 2026. There it is: a little blue block in my calendar ‘Review—Giving Birth to My Father.’ I can best describe this latest collection
- [My Bourgeois Apocalypse](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-bourgeois-apocalypse/) - My Bourgeois Apocalypse by Helen Rickerby. Auckland University Press (2026). RRP: $25.00. PB, 80pp. ISBN: 9781776712106. Reviewed by Dani Yourukova. ‘Poets, like architects, love contradiction and near incoherence.’ So reads one of the two Elisa Gabbert quotes that provide the epigraph to My Bourgeois Apocalypse, Helen Rickerby's eclectic new ‘poetic-memoir’ made with extracts from her
- [The Work of Angels](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-work-of-angels/) - The Work of Angels by Anisha Sankar. Dead Bird Books (2026). RRP: $35.00. PB, 76pp. ISBN: 9780473772499. Reviewed by Kahu Kutia. The role of a storyteller is to preserve. This work of preserving is a burden that I often think about in my writing. As storytellers, we engage in the work of knowledge collectors, archivists,
- [What to Wear](https://www.takahe.org.nz/what-to-wear/) - What to Wear by Jenny Bornholdt. THWUP (2026). RRP. $25.00. PB, 72pp. ISBN: 9781776923069. Reviewed by Jordan Hamel. Jenny Bornholdt’s What to Wear is the former poet laureate’s 12th collection, and, to my deep shame, the first I’ve read cover to cover (a mistake I’ve since rectified). Coming in with mostly fresh eyes to review
- [Blue Moon](https://www.takahe.org.nz/blue-moon/) - It wasn’t blue, as Delia had been told it would be. Nor were there cacti, at least none that she could make out by the disappointingly golden light of the full moon, which was framed in the black window against which she, in the back seat, was leaning. The moon seemed to be sailing above
- [Touched By An Angel](https://www.takahe.org.nz/touched-by-an-angel/) - My name is Bambi. It’s a nice name, isn’t it? Maybe you are picturing that I am an adorable, svelte white girl with a pretty hair colour and rosy cheeks and startlingly memorable methods of seduction. Well, I’m not. I’m ethnically Filipino, but I don’t want to get into it because I have too many
- [Laundry](https://www.takahe.org.nz/laundry/) - Mum pulls the knotted loop off its hook and locks her eye in with the wheel at the top of the pulley. Passes chord through her hands—one over the other—and lowers the drying rack. The laundry comes down with the majesty of a show girl and I stand small beside the large, wooden table beneath.
- [An answer for everything](https://www.takahe.org.nz/an-answer-for-everything/) - Briar no longer had the answers for everything, just as she had no idea what had driven her husband away. Maybe it had been the night sweats. That was when Francis moved to the spare room. To give you some space; you know I’ve got work in the morning.’ And she hadn’t had to work
- [severed breasts](https://www.takahe.org.nz/severed-breasts/) - 2:00 – I track the moon, waxed to a yellow half. Wide tonight, impossibly large, she oranges clouds like a candle to smoke. This, I think, is how I imagined frankincense and myrrh as a child; (noun) a nebulous something, seen through spider thin fabric and warm dream-lights. I am braless under my hoodie and
- [Nice](https://www.takahe.org.nz/nice/) - Robert Christopher Weissenberg is a writer and artist who resides in Central Texas. You can find him online as @mystigraphika.
- [Odd bod](https://www.takahe.org.nz/odd-bod/) - I’m watching myself watching a scene.I’m a camera in a kitchen.A shadow peeks past the kero heater into a dining room with its wedding furniture—blocky mid-century oak. My father has the five-year-old eat stew and she vomits and he has hereat the vomit. As a camera I have no emotion. I’m looking for answersto years of gut issues. No
- [umbral](https://www.takahe.org.nz/umbral/) - i write a poem instead of an entry in my diary. it is a forfeiture of one kindof interiority, the impulse, or prejudice,of narrative. it is a kind of substitute for prayer, the imputed belief that aday and its woes, decisions, whispersare a form of dialogue. utterance fadesnot into an umbral heartbeat, in this edgeland of perpetual glow
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-david-eggleton/) - Seal Beach Each of my footsteps through the kānuka scrub over the abandoned pā site feels footnoted, its passage registered;while closer to the beach a shape resembling the tongueof an old shoe dried by the sunvibrates in sympathy,as if it has a heartbeat’s soft thump;and marks show where slitherings of flippers and tailhave pushed a seal pup
- [Herne Bay in the Year of Our Lord 2025](https://www.takahe.org.nz/herne-bay-in-the-year-of-our-lord-2025/) - Jessie and I are accosted at a tiny beachby a drunk man with a black eye | who goesso far as to float out to us in the dark water he wants us to help him swim as if heisn’t already swimming | or to touch him orbe pulled under calls us cunts when wemove away | Jessie still
- [The grind](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-grind/) - A bobwhite quail crosses the road in front of the car, rushing to join his flock. Something is crowning, but let me not know. Amongst the ebb and flow of typing and clicking I can feel my own world expanding. I unfurl from a gargantuan core. Watch the gulls, dark smudges against an endless grey
- [Representation from the embassy of Aeaea](https://www.takahe.org.nz/representation-from-the-embassy-of-aeaea/) - That time I lost my best friend because we turned seven and he figured out I was a girl been swallowing the bruises ever since :diffidence and valiant diplomacymakeup a homage to dropping out of art schoolred bra concealed by sorcerywedding ring from Temurewritten promises of safe passage: I would never deceive my wife, much less
- [bending toward the light](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bending-toward-the-light/) - For Emilie Collyer the poet who is not the poet but is reading someone else’s poetry despite being a poet in their own right is bent over on the stage that is actually a staircase or perhaps a stairwell not bent over exactly but rather bending toward the light (or is the light bending toward
- [the archer ](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-archer/) - in intermediate school i wrote my own creepypasta. my self-insert with a bow and arrow made of shadows was close personal friends with Slenderman, who helped her take revenge on all who had ever wronged her. in Minecraft, on my best friend’s server, i built a cobblestone tower which i’d climb at pixel sunset to shoot zombies and spiders across the grassy
- [The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-clean-in-the-dreamlife-you-need-a-rubber-soul/) - The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul by Richard Langston. AUP (2026). RRP: $49.99. PB, 376pp. ISBN: 9781776711567. Reviewed by Joanna Mathers. Music artists The Clean emerged from Dunedin in the late 1970s and have exerted an oversized influence on independent music ever since, both in Aotearoa and internationally. Shaggy, shambolic, with
- [Childish Palate](https://www.takahe.org.nz/childish-palate/) - Childish Palate by Shariff Burke. Tender Press (2026). RRP: $32.00. PB, 242pp. ISBN: 9780473762490. Reviewed by Cybonn Ang. Childish Palate, Shariff Burke’s debut short story collection, brings together eleven stories centred on protagonists from a range of Asian ethnic backgrounds. Food is involved in all of them—the business of it, the enjoyment of it, the
- [The wall](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-wall/) - In old age my parents lived like teenagers.They stuck things on the wall with Blu Tack,collected fluffy toys and cute cat pics.Their glassware came from op shops.They hung old sheets on the curtain rails. They let the trees overgrow the deck,fed leftover meat to the birds.They had their dinner at nine pm,sat watching TV hours
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-eliana-gray/) - Waitati diss track I have to get out of the swampwith its converted churches and artichoke smellwashing barrel roasters and cottage gardensdepruned roses freaking in the windcommunity hot tub orgies and whisper newslettersgeodesic veggie domes and homogeneously vegan potlucks a swamp is surrounded by mountainssea lions and water rats alike born every night at the
- [Schist](https://www.takahe.org.nz/schist/) - Central Otago Out of the hill line, out of kilter, stack, pillar tilt of a wing in stone as if hand-tooled by a playful buildernot finished yet—moves in the freeze and thaw beyond eye-range, shedding and still lifting from within the way a grief might go through its stages having to come to the core again dark varnished to the perishing
- [Five poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/five-poems-by-always-becominging/) - had had I had had a long dayand it was only lunchtime. I had had just two tasksto start the morning but they had had complicationswhich caused them to multiply seemingly infinitely.Now I was buried beneaththe weight of hundreds of jobsand I had had quite enough of it.I had had a good nightthe night before.I had had some
- [In writing](https://www.takahe.org.nz/in-writing/) - He burned the letters in his possession—they were legally his— burned them without her knowingat the bottom of the garden withthe rubbish. He spoke as if every traceof their first love had been erased. * My mother’s photographs packed into boxes,forgotten after she died, came to my home when my father went into care. After his funeral—time to
- [上海夏天](https://www.takahe.org.nz/上海夏天/) - it was the hottest summer of my life. cycling every day instead of walking to escape the ultraviolet light. trying not to get hit by a scooter. watching the powerlines liquefy across the rooftops, drinking three cups of warm water and then going out again. pausing at the park to see the turtles. cooling down
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial-116/) - Tēnā koutou katoa, Where to start with the absolute state of 2026? In Aotearoa, every household staple costs $50, imported culture war issues pollute the news cycle, and 1-in-100-year weather events occur with every big storm. In the wider world, annihilatory wars of choice are as fashionable as hot honey, mothballed killer diseases are back,
- [Painting with Smoke: The Art of Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka](https://www.takahe.org.nz/painting-with-smoke-the-art-of-kulimoeanga-stone-maka/) - Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka stands as one of the most compelling contemporary artists working from Aotearoa New Zealand today, distinguished by a practice that fuses ancestral Tongan knowledge with experimental, often monumental, painterly processes. His work is rooted in the sacred art of ngatu tāʻuli, Tongan blackened tapa cloth, yet it consistently pushes beyond ethnographic expectation,
- [overhead lighting](https://www.takahe.org.nz/overhead-lighting/) - I keep staying up too too late. to look at pictures of hothouse flowers online. eat the thought of them as I sleep. develop a bad back from it. wake up angry from trying to find beauty by myself at 1am. I know the answers. I know it’s never found in 1am alone. but keep
- [Past staff and guests](https://www.takahe.org.nz/past-staff-and-guests/) - takahē magazine was co-founded in 1989 by editors Sandra Arnold and David Howard, and the Takahē Collective Trust was established in 1996 by Cassandra Fusco, Bernadette Hall, Mark Johnstone, Isobel Moynihan, and Robert Edward. The Takahē Collective Trust gratefully acknowledges the mahi of all past staff and guests. These include: Tracey Absolum, Meredith Alexander, Brenda
- [Tony Guo: The Sweet Unbearable](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tony-guo-the-sweet-unbearable/) - Without totally orientalizing painter Tony Guo’s surreal vaudevilles, it’s difficult not to see the (violently) anxious eroticism of manga comic artist Junji Ito in his work. Like Ito, Guo’s figures suffer from an ecstatic dysmorphia (for example, Gardeners, 2020, a fractured self-portrait in which the artist literally dismembers himself). But unlike Ito the source of
- [The Book of Guilt](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-book-of-guilt/) - The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey. THWUP (2025). RRP: $38. PB, 400pp. ISBN: 9781776922246. Reviewed by Erica Stretton. Catherine Chidgey’s ninth novel, The Book of Guilt, was released in May and has already received strong reviews both in Aotearoa and abroad. Adding to the discourse around one of our most acclaimed authors—twice winner of
- [Pastoral Care](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pastoral-care/) - Pastoral Care by John Prins. OUP (2025). RRP: $35. PB, 246pp. ISBN: 9781991348104. Reviewed by Erica Stretton. John Prins’ debut short story collection Pastoral Care probes at the nature of care, of caring, and of safety: what can be sacrificed to stay safe? Prins is a master of pressing hard on small details to evoke
- [Overheard on Auckland Transport](https://www.takahe.org.nz/overheard-on-auckland-transport/) - i’m going to my brother-in-law’s again i mean i know la traviata backwards if he’s gonna tell me ‘not to text boys’ then i’d better expect the same from him she dies of consumption right most of those people do it was all right the first time *god* i am ready to go out and drink!
- [Ogygia](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ogygia/) - I craved the time when I was aloneso much so it started to crave backweathered flowers and pale pollensettling in soft hollows and broken skin I felt myself sickenI felt myself starve I felt myself rot the mind is poor companybut I was a poorer friendI stood by and watchedthe spiders make it theirs Nina Tulloch is an artist and
- [Cherry](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cherry/) - A car honks for you in the driveway. You tell Dad you’re hanging out with friends. ‘Nice day for it,’ he yells, hammering away at something in the backyard. Dads don’t ask follow-up questions, not like mums do. You slide into the backseat behind Evie and Pania, your best mates. Loose bobby pins are scattered in
- [Goodbye, Frankie Chen](https://www.takahe.org.nz/goodbye-frankie-chen/) - I have always been drawn to the coast, even if it hurts, even if everyone says it is no longer safe. Even as years pass, as I feel myself changing, no longer the child I was, I am pulled back to that place, the stretch of pebble and mud on the new shore between Alexandra
- [Lioness](https://www.takahe.org.nz/lioness/) - I look across the bridge that leads out of the park and onto the street, then down at my sister’s pregnant belly. Once we cross the bridge danger might come from anywhere. I check behind, shade my eyes and scan the street ahead. My skin prickles, alert to any change in the air. We go
- [Five poems from My Bourgeois Apocalypse](https://www.takahe.org.nz/five-poems-from-my-bourgeois-apocalypse/) - #16 (Shall we try again with another year?) Well, it wasn’t quite the year I imagined – I did not imagine aglobal pandemic and to be locked down at home. ‘The presentbecomes the past through increments too small to measure;suddenly something that is becomes something that was, andthe way we live is not the way
- [Where I am finding you in these times](https://www.takahe.org.nz/where-i-am-finding-you-in-these-times/) - In the tiny bronze star embossed onto a teaspoon.In the panning that flickers quick between earbuds. In the moment of cold meeting hot breath.In the musk of the skin, post-hunt, I mean, in the ripening. I mean, when knees bend, when brow bone calls for dirt,I mean, in the urge to get lower still—I mean,
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-lauren-connolly/) - Susannah and the Elders You are Susannah and you cannot escape the Elders. You are beautiful and you are delicate, therefore—But it is more than that. Your face And your step is a titillation, An ongoing open invitation That bites at your naked heels. They smell your weakness, rendered Sensual, as you rot beneath your neck. Your mouth is a dead
- [Eye Contact](https://www.takahe.org.nz/eye-contact/) - Your vision has slipped. You didn’t notice it at first—it's hard to notice things when they’re gradual—but it’s as if someone snuck into your line of sight every night and sanded down the horizon until its edges were soft and staticky, sharp lines vibrating. The distance, now, is more distant. You made the mistake of
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial-115/) - Tēnā koutou katoa, Kelly Ana Morey’s sudden passing leaves takahē magazine bereft of a voice that had only just begun to shape our pages. As our Essays Editor, she brought the same qualities that defined her fiction and criticism: wit, clarity, and an uncompromising eye, to the work of stewarding others’ writing. Kelly joined takahē
- [The Butcher of Whack-a-White](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-butcher-of-whack-a-white/) - Mondays at the slaughter is hardgraft, blunt rhythmic steel on bone.Sheep hang their heads; muted nowas final sounds washed from stone by bucket-slosh and scrubbing brushsend offal into the stream. Flaxline the banks, keeping the ritoclean and safe. The butcher, tongue-trussed like poultry, ties wordstogether, saliva pools on sounds unknown, skips and drowns with the splutter, the
- [Lost Libraries—Biblioclasm: a deadly sin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/lost-libraries/) - Dedicated to the Shekera family, my brave Ukrainian friends, who conduct their lives under a hail of Russian missiles. In the years preceding the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, two significant private libraries were established in Northland: the Anglican mission libraries of Kerikeri and Waimate North. I was three-and-a-half years old when my family
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-mark-russell/) - #26: Margaret Kev and I are leaping from the roof of the Scout Hall on Totterdown Road using Thatcher as a target. She scoots about to avoid us but on the eighth attempt I catch her in the temple with my heel. Kev’s body goes limp. He’s confused. We’re animals, he says. I suspect he’s
- [a week before my dad died](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-week-before-my-dad-died/) - he asked if he could borrow twenty bucks i said no it’s taken me twenty years to forgive myself a week after my dad died a man told me he had seen a black spectre hovering over my dad’s body it’s taken me twenty years to forgive him a month after my dad died my stepmother skipped
- [Before the Winter Ends](https://www.takahe.org.nz/before-the-winter-ends/) - Before the Winter Ends by Khadro Mohamed. Tender Press (2025). RRP: $30.00. PB, 289pp. ISBN: 9780473737405. Reviewed by Neema Singh. Khadro Mohamed’s stunning debut novel Before the Winter Ends could be read as a companion piece to her award-winning 2022 poetry collection We’re All Made of Lightning: the vivid imagery of Aotearoa New Zealand, Somalia,
- [Hoods Landing](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hoods-landing/) - Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent. Āporo Press (2025). RRP: $35. PB, 256pp. ISBN: 9780473745684. Reviewed by Laura Borrowdale. Laura Vincent’s Instagram, @hungryandfrozen, used to be full of bird’s eye images of delectable plates of aspirational food: pasta with harissa and beans curled lovingly on a pea green plate, mint choc chip ice cream with a
- [No Good](https://www.takahe.org.nz/no-good/) - No Good by Sophie van Waardenberg. AUP (2025). RRP: $24.99. PB, 80pp. ISBN: 9781776711789. Reviewed by Hebe Kearney. No Good is a striking, clear, and soft collection of poetry. It holds the tension of these disparate adjectives perfectly, and while it is at times a sorrowful work, it is never a disheartening one. Upon reading
- [show you're working out](https://www.takahe.org.nz/show-youre-working-out/) - show you’re working out by liz breslin. Dead Bird Books (2025). RRP: $35. PB, 82pp. ISBN: 9780473751500. Reviewed by Sylvan Spring. ‘we were born to deviations / gentle ferocious / unexpected ways.’ This first line of the last poem in liz breslin’s show you’re working out feels central to the story they carry us through
- [Crocodile in the Sun](https://www.takahe.org.nz/crocodile-in-the-sun/) - Clarissa had to touch everything, and it had become a problem. A hydra-headed problem that grew worse by the day. It reared one of its heads in the china shop, and I looked quickly for a sword. All I had were words. ‘Clarissa, careful!’ I said. ‘It’ll break.’ Mute flashes shot off the glazed black
- [How to Produce a Modern Flash Fiction](https://www.takahe.org.nz/how-to-produce-a-modern-flash-fiction/) - Write, because something beautiful always breathes when you do. You already know the world is changing and being a writer is difficult. Breathe deeply. That’s one of the only things you’ll have to do on your own. None of your friends have any idea what writing is like, so both your privacy and writing won’t
- [The Cloudists](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-cloudists/) - On days when the sky was absent of clouds, a certain man felt ill at ease. To alleviate this, he netted a stray, low-hanging cloud, and squeezed it inside a jar, tightly screwing the lid down. So on days when the clouds were scarce or absent, he held the jar above his head, and cheerfully
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-maia-armistead/) - Fountain You seated me at the fountain to watch you throw small stones, like useless buttons, into the water. You were older than me, and kept forgetting my name and then remembering it, suddenly, like a taste. It was then you became the object of all my desire. Long after you left I coveted the shape of your body: your round waist, your dark,
- [From the life](https://www.takahe.org.nz/from-the-life/) - at the end of his time on earthWu Daozi master of illusion painted a door in one of his pictureswhich he then openedand disappeared through in some writers’ accountssuch a flourish of legerdemainwould be emblematic of suicidebut Wu’s move surely placed himamong the immortals motive + means + opportunitythe ingredients of great crime or great artWu’s
- [Stone](https://www.takahe.org.nz/stone/) - A baby rabbit crawled into a Ziploc bag—sandwich size on my bedroom floor—its small stone-coloured body wedged sideways—doll eyes staring—lying so still I thought it must have orchestrated its own demise—which is what the coroner wrote on my brother’s death certificate after his motorbike lost control on the 20 km/h left-hand bend into Pauanui—he was
- [Competition](https://www.takahe.org.nz/competition/) - I came second place in the international chess competition. Lost because of something to dowith a rook. The international German competition, too—they told me my vowels were too dark. That was the same for the portrait competition. Even the judges of the brass band competition said that my tuba had the wrong kind of shine.
- [Waiting for Dogot](https://www.takahe.org.nz/waiting-for-dogot/) - Three days to go. We complete nothing. Our bodies hung-dumb dry, and tired. The word dog becomes apparent only in its absence. You say I’m spelling it backwards. Say I fumbled my braids. I say you’ve never known of ash-tipped fingers on the root of your body. I say you’ve never seen a dog the
- [Invasion Road](https://www.takahe.org.nz/invasion-road/) - In Balclutha the river moils,alive with three rivers’ soils,before a taniwha traps all in her coils.The clean fleece of touristsis knitted into many baby blankets.Manes of waves move beyond the toetoe.Wind bluster punishes the shining tussock.A roll of thunder claps atthe unfolding scarf of a waterfall,and echoes tremble in tūīs’ call,in twang of fence-wire, in
- [cloud swallowed moon](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cloud-swallowed-moon/) - the headline ran cloud swallowed moon whole written in cobalt blue letters on scarlet tissue paper but i know it to be truebecause i watched from my plastic grey chair on the back porch as the moon entered through itsmouth penetrating deep to the belly of the cloud light played in shadows not cheap garish beams bright glaring
- [The best crystal for protecting against fascism is a brick.](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-best-crystal-for-protecting-against-fascism-is-a-brick/) - You were supposed to die quietly,politely walk off into the bush and vanish beneath the tōtara and tutu,never making anyone uncomfortable, so they will be mad at you for this: the darkly glittering broken glass,smoke weightless as prayer, distant sirens keening as if someone who matteredhad died, but they’re just scared, since you’d prefer to
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-dorothy-lune/) - Selectively mute ode I’ve tried so often to evoke speech that today,above my head, it closes like great wings. Distributed in each eye is a gunlock— violence so golden you’d yearn to touch it, by which the charge isignited, by which my boiling lips hold together a hollow & breathless cavity. The horizon edges curl wide. Babysitting, child’s
- [taken neat](https://www.takahe.org.nz/taken-neat/) - the night was blond. she pours herself wine and two whiskeys, ‘for you boys,’ and i tumble those three words around my mouth with an ice cube and fresh lime juice. i tell them my secrets and cut them in half. he keeps his wedding ring on when he fingers me. the metal warms up
- [Just Us](https://www.takahe.org.nz/just-us/) - It was always just us. And we knew it too.Behold, behind the curtain was a child.Behold, behind the statue was an old man speaking through a device. Under the bed, it was always just us.No one seriously considered it would be anyone else hiding in the shadows. Remember when you got happy,totally out of it, clean gone?That was
- [Garlic man](https://www.takahe.org.nz/garlic-man/) - For Ahuwhenua The sun rises on youand still the earth is dry each clove split by your handsand still no rain with my father’s handcrafted toolyou plunge tines into cut grass and roll and roll until your haystackstarts to tremble days and days go bythe weight of it rotting into goodness your homemade dibble spacing holesyou,
- [Two poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-anny-trolove/) - Cherubs Standing on a stool, looking for herbal teabags, teabags being a prop, a means to normality, newly home, our jackets not yet removed, my intimate’s arm has appeared around my hips, I glance down, back up and search for these teabags we aren’t interested in, a box of peppermint, a bottle of blackcurrant cordial,
- [do_you_know_how_fucking_weird_this_is.html](https://www.takahe.org.nz/do_you_know_how_fucking_weird_this_is-html/) - the bravest thing i’ve done is change your name in my phone.the pixels fold together, press us between slick graphics like flower petals.i fold for you every time. if i laid our texts end to endthey would wrap around the moon like blood vessels.our image unspooling as i archive, missing teeth in my highlights,both black
- [Alexandra Technique*](https://www.takahe.org.nz/alexandra-technique/) - I’ve been coming to terms with my dis ability lately the kind you have to touch me to understand could you raise your arms please one day I’ll need a stick to walk with oneday they’ll stick enough needles in me fine tuning the
- [Just Before Culverden](https://www.takahe.org.nz/just-before-culverden/) - Just before Culverden she is thinking that he doesn’t smell like love anymore, chews at the air like a tooth aching dog, is driving hunched, too fast and sickeningwith every new twist, each mindless enunciation about ‘getting there’, the car aimed resolute at the darkening hills like a nail and the rain begins to fall … What
- [big mac trees](https://www.takahe.org.nz/big-mac-trees/) - in poor childhoods big macs grow on trees as high as heaven to humans who sin. whole neighbourhoods are full of fatness, not heart disease fatness but brand new baby fatness. it’s because we asked grandad what heaven was like and he said it was different for every human. that very afternoon the age of
- [Green Gills](https://www.takahe.org.nz/green-gills/) - oh, how simple it must be. to wean. to suck generously. oral thrush and strep throat, but worth it for all the warm memories and healthy boundaries. how simple it must be to writhe your hip bones around in a circle. to not hide behind hands in your own home. I imagine what it must
- [A baby eats a lemon for the first time](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-baby-eats-a-lemon-for-the-first-time/) - Once I sink my teeth in, I have to nurse myself into letting goI am always overly eager to hold something in my mouthTo own and decide the fateTo grasp and never releaseMissing you hasn’t even begun, yet it consumes meI’m bathing in sour fruits from your gardenSucking on prayer beads twice a dayCrying like
- [Tiny Galaxies](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tiny-galaxies/) - i) Did you know, she said, There’s a theory our universe might exist inside a black hole? Really? he replied. Pass the salt. The flurry of salt he shook onto the already seasoned steak flaked the surface like snow. When he sliced the meat, she felt it, almost. A slit down her spine. Her meal
- [Massive continuity of horses ](https://www.takahe.org.nz/massive-continuity-of-horses/) - 'How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks' — Dorothy L Sayers, Gaudy Night Writers never ask one another questions like ‘where do you get your ideas’ because we all know the answer will be useless. Every writer’s process is personal and not very replicable. Lots of normal people do
- [Straight Talk](https://www.takahe.org.nz/straight-talk/) - ‘Are you going to this book club thing, or not?’ The husband swats onions around the pan. ‘I’ll probably be the oldest, straightest one there. God, how depressing. Maybe I won’t go.’ But the wife is pulling on boots, looking for her handbag and scoffing a cheese cracker. ‘But you’re not straight,’ he gloats. ‘Well
- [The Birds](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-birds/) - Arthur lives at the edge of town. His house is rife with infestation, with weeds and aphids and pests of all varieties. The house is tucked away by the end of the court. It is the scourge of your street. * Arthur’s front yard is full of birds. He used to tend vegetables there, ripe
- [Maania Tealei: Whakahōnore i tō tātou taonga tuku iho: Honouring Our Legacy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/maania-tealei-whakahonore-i-to-tatou-taonga-tuku-iho-honouring-our-legacy/) - Maania Tealei’s exhibition Whakahōnore i tō tātou taonga tuku iho: Honouring Our Legacy exhibited at the Aigantighe Art Gallery in Timaru, 14th June–10th August 2025. Māui and Muriranga-whenua. Whaitiri and Tāwhaki. These pūrākau—ancestral stories—are reminders of the enduring influence of Māori kaumātua (elders), who appear within them as guides, guardians, and teachers. These stories live
- [Dear Alter](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dear-alter/) - Dear Alter by Jiaqiao Liu. AUP (2025). RRP: $30. PB, 116 pp. ISBN: 9781776711697. Reviewed by Dani Yourukova. I am on a long distance call, sloping about the kitchen in my socks, when I notice that my mum uses ‘he’ pronouns for ChatGPT now. She’s annoyed because I made her feel guilty about the environmental
- [Joss: A History](https://www.takahe.org.nz/joss-a-history/) - Joss: A History by Grace Yee. Giramondo Publishing (2025). RRP: $33. PB, 96pp. ISBN: 9781923106314. Reviewed by Cybonn Ang. Following the success of her multi award-winning debut, Chinese Fish—a novel-in-verse exploring the struggles of a Chinese immigrant family in Aotearoa New Zealand—author Grace Yee once again dips her pen into the marvelous well of antipodean
- [Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa](https://www.takahe.org.nz/oceans-between-us-pacific-peoples-and-racism-in-aotearoa/) - Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa edited by Sereana Naepi. AUP (2025). RRP: $40. PB, 272pp. ISBN 9781776711253. Reviewed by Tracey Sharp. We know the statistics. Pacific peoples in Aotearoa consistently rank lower than non-Pacific populations across nearly every measure—health, wealth, home ownership, longevity, educational attainment, and wellbeing—and higher in incarceration rates.
- [Overseas Experience](https://www.takahe.org.nz/overseas-experience/) - Overseas Experience by Nicola Andrews. Āporo Press (2025). RRP: $30. PB, 92 pp. ISBN: 9780473745677. Reviewed by Melissa Oliver. It can sometimes be hard, when a work of art holds a light up to your deep insecurities, to look at it objectively. But in Overseas Experience, Nicola Andrews takes your hand and doesn’t let go
- [Slowing the Sun](https://www.takahe.org.nz/slowing-the-sun/) - Slowing the Sun by Nadine Hura. Bridget Williams Books (2025). RRP: $40. PB, 240 pp. ISBN: 978199130169. Reviewed by Māia Te Whetū. Nadine Hura’s Slowing the Sun is the kind of book you have to put down for a few days once you realise you’re nearing its end, when the pinch of pages between the
- [Phone sex](https://www.takahe.org.nz/phone-sex/) - Phone sex! Are you fucking kidding?How would we get off on sound?I’m not free to splurt your biddingAll my family are aroundGod knows where these words are headingEarth is small and mean and round I’m not free to splurt your biddingAll my family are aroundNow an old in-joke is spreadingNow another drink is downedGod knows
- [Pylades and Electra, 1935](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pylades-and-electra-1935/) - His first gift for them both a pair of bicycles. She watches while he pushes up the street: posture, forearms. A beatto recognise each other’s bright and golden eye, then they’re pedallingand off. Cycle clips at his achilles, her skirts above her knees. The city is a macadam grid. The city is a weft of
- [First Wool](https://www.takahe.org.nz/first-wool/) - I was working in my aunt’s wool shop for a season when a woman came in wanting unusual yarn for a wall hanging. Nothing I could show her tickled her fancy. Then I remembered my sister’s first wool. She had been learning to spin and several hanks of her beginner efforts were kicking around— crazy knots looping back onto themselves, then
- [A4-sized fairy / archived cry](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a4-sized-fairy-archived-cry/) - I can live where a girl I was a sparrowmake room!appear but not for much longer, I think It was all ‘coloured glass, crushed into the skin / on her legs / and on the concrete before thatas she fell asleep / shining’ Orwas it ‘better to see a webthe world as it is and to tryshow upto arrive’? That
- [Everybody sees the inside of the sausage under the surveillance state](https://www.takahe.org.nz/everybody-sees-the-inside-of-the-sausage-under-the-surveillance-state/) - I trade in burner emails to try and fleece the advertisersthe lint trap comes off the dryer and microplastics fly unhingedthey told me the glitter was biodegradableanything is ephemeral if you wait long enoughI’m actually pretty busy worrying if I’m hot, anywaysat least some things are enduringbut each year the fucks slough off like skin
- [Dough Buoys](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dough-buoys/) - Rise in silent kettles, soft & round. Whispering within wai, stirring steam underneath pōhutukawa sky, where the boil-up billowing the slow rhythms of watercresslaces stories of tūpuna. Now fractured bysmog and lights, urban-gentry marshmallowhands reach for sweetness—froth-churneddreams sold with roasted syrup topping coffeecup lids of ivory tower minds. Dough buoys likethem rose by
- [Disenfranchised](https://www.takahe.org.nz/disenfranchised/) - I went to the shop to ask whether they sold Aunt Betty’s Yorkshire puddingsthat was shame enough having to tell a place with strip lighting and uniformsabout how the fat needs to be beef dripping not oil and needs to be so hotit’s smoking in the tin the oven so hot it hot glues your
- [You Must Allow Me to Tell You](https://www.takahe.org.nz/you-must-allow-me-to-tell-you/) - Taken aback by her daring disregardof social conventions about stopping distance,the cyclist laughed, refrainedfrom giving a lecture on mannersto the young woman with puffed sleeveswho stepped onto the crossingreading a book the old-fashioned waylike she’d stepped from a Jane Austen noveldetermined to make it clearshe was more interested in readingthan life itself, and nothing and
- [succulent](https://www.takahe.org.nz/succulent/) - the teacher says he hasn’tdone any written work in three weeks the mother says the educational psychologist saysthat’s because the child is gifted the teacher says there are other words for itthe principal says the mother has given her child too much waterGod knows when she grows up she will burst through the swollen chestof
- [a year in my mother’s garden, as the forager](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-year-in-my-mothers-garden-as-the-forager/) - first quarter:there’s a poorly pruned fig tree growing off the side of our driveway.last year the tree-trimmers came knocking one too many times, and we trusted themtoo much. I worriedthe fig wouldn’t make itbut it retaliated, soaring to surpass original heightall in water shoots, as though having decidedwe don’t deserve the fruit anymorethey’re for the
- [Six Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/six-poems-by-elizabeth-morton/) - Without incident I gave what I got. All my yesterdays folding into one discrete sentence.I told the wind what to do with me. I told the fields how to hold me down.I told the dandelion to hurt me in steps, to talk me through how to be afraid.The barnhouse said just a short sting and
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial-114/) - Tēnā koutou katoa, Nau mai, haere mai to our August 2025 issue of takahē! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supports us, whether by reading the magazine, submitting work, donating, buying a back issue or merch, sharing our content, or sending feedback. And of course, to our incredible contributors who have stitched their bold
- [One Last Look](https://www.takahe.org.nz/one-last-look/) - I moved out on a Thursday. As I packed the last box in the trunk of my hatchback, the sun greeted me as if it was our last encounter. I turned back to take one last look at the house I convinced Noah to buy with me. But somehow it was me who was leaving.
- [Ori](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ori/) - Ori is born on a Tuesday. I tell myself that people do this everyday, and the thought steadies me. Cara catches him as he slides free from my body, scooping him up to rest in my arms. He is slippery and purple. His face is pinched. He has fine, dark hair slicked to his head.
- [The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-life-and-opinions-of-kartik-popat/) - The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat by Brannavan Gnanalingam. Lawrence & Gibson (2024). RRP: $30.00. PB, 304pp. ISBN: 9780473725976. Reviewed by Cybonn Ang. Brannavan Gnanalingam’s eighth novel, The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat, is a witty, highly entertaining memoir of one Kartik Popat, a guy from Hutt Valley who manages to climb—nay, worm—himself
- [Tight Knit](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tight-knit/) - Mum is a fan of expensive shopping, but not much of a gift giver outside of birthdays and Christmas. So, seeing her at my front door holding a glossy white gift box—the type you get from fancy shops, tied up with a bow—immediately put me on edge. She hardly ever visited, especially without calling first.
- [The Clown](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-clown/) - When she opened the front door Jake stood there with his clown behind him. The clown wore a big full-cheeked smile, with the slightest bit of stubble pushing out through his makeup. She wasn’t sure why she was surprised, the clown always followed him everywhere, like a rainbow-coloured shadow, but for some reason she had
- [In the Queue for Ice Cream](https://www.takahe.org.nz/in-the-queue-for-ice-cream/) - In the queue at the cafe, four people are in front of me. All enjoying the usual delights of the English seaside when the sun comes up at the beginning of June. They all look pickled somewhere from brown to red, each wearing their comfort or discomfort in place of winter coats, each shuffling towards
- [Wvfloof Wvfloof Creek](https://www.takahe.org.nz/wvfloof-wvfloof-creek/) - Shauna felt certain there was a dead body buried on her new property. Sometimes it was bloated in the water tank. Others, it was buried under the shipwrecked rowing boat, the one with the bromeliads sprouting above clay sky-rises architectured by the wasps. She had ten acres of New Zealand bushland, where the skyline was
- [Ascent](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ascent/) - He pours me into the copper perfume bottle. A dropped pearl of me trembles on the bottle’s lip, before sliding in. He stoppers the bottle; I am in darkness. I slosh as the bottle is carried elsewhere. Low chanting, muffled. Someone unstoppers me. That pearl that so recently rejoined me slips out, away. That pearl
- [An Apple Tree in a Dying World](https://www.takahe.org.nz/an-apple-tree-in-a-dying-world/) - She chews the pen until her teeth ache, the plastic splintering faintly under the pressure. The ink is metallic, bitter as it seeps into her mouth. The paper beneath her hands is soft and damp, its edges curling inward as though retreating from the weight of her touch. Bread. Canned beans. Powdered milk. Each word
- [Paul McLachlan: Layers of Time and Space](https://www.takahe.org.nz/paul-mclachlan-layers-of-time-and-space/) - At just 9 years old, Eastern-Southland-based artist Paul McLachlan's eyes were opened to the potential of art by the modernist masterpieces on display at the Guggenheim exhibition that toured to Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 1996. This profound experience ignited a lifelong passion for art, leading him to pursue a career as an artist. ‘This
- [Kauri Health Care](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kauri-health-care/) - with the inward facing surface of her left hand the daughter touches her eyelids often imagining her fingers as guardians the kauri trees surround the house twenty or so the mother drives the daughter to a clinic where there is a sunporch and a sundeck the daughter grows anxious about the
- [the prism and the rose and the late poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-prism-and-the-rose-and-the-late-poems/) - the prism and the rose and the late poems by Schaeffer Lemalu. Compound Press (2024). RRP: $30.00. PB, 80pp. ISBN: 9781991154170. Reviewed by Tulia Thompson. One way to approach Sāmoan-Lebanese poet Schaeffer Lemalu’s (1983–2021) posthumous collection the prism and the rose and the late poems is via his attention to the visual. Lemalu was also
- [Remarkable Dykes](https://www.takahe.org.nz/remarkable-dykes/) - Ōtarahaka trachyte passage Tamatea’s exploded ashes scarred hills forestry’s slash remains scattered broom blossoms radiate like melted butter kōhatu fallen resemble ancient dolmen tombs remarkable dykes rock slabs climbing skyward Ariana Tikao is a Kāi Tahu artist of the sound and word variety from Ōtautahi Christchurch. She was a 2023 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at Canterbury University, and was awarded as a New Zealand
- [move to the shade](https://www.takahe.org.nz/move-to-the-shade/) - a summer of toxic fumes coats your ribswith a vengeance and the new year that ismerely the other side of the old year burnsits way through your skull and you stumbleinto the coffee shop that is also a chemist that isa record store up the escalator and the a/cbreeze stretches your mind to the very
- [Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/poems-cadence-chung/) - Perfume I. The rose-song Alcaeus, the Ancient Greek, held his lyre like a creature, like a cat under his fingers. He—shade-eyed,curtailed, hair in vines—is a smear of oil paintat the Metropolitan Museum. I have only everseen him on a screen. They teach you to closea bottle of turps while using it, because the smellis so strong.
- [Standing in the Water](https://www.takahe.org.nz/standing-in-the-water/) - I’m standing in the water. It’s up to my calves already. My father was always telling me: you must get your feet wet. I never understood what he meant. Was it something about getting involved? My mother always said: be careful. Don’t go near the water. It’s dangerous. I thought I knew what she meant:
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-briar-wood/) - Galoshes After all you gave me, includingthe ambivalence of life itself,it was a pleasure to gift some comfort.A fresh wool coat, supple cotton pyjamas,ethereal orchids, bulging tulip bulbs,a pair of rubber garden galoshes. When the phone call finally came,I knew, instantly, you’d fallenwearing those bloody galoshes.I rang an artist aunt, sobbing,explained about the footwear.‘I’m wearing
- [Helen St, 01:23 AM](https://www.takahe.org.nz/helen-st-0123-am/) - A minute hum in you builds to a purrclaws stem from my fingertipsI endure on your restless touch and topple Troy You mewlpretty petsoft as kitten fur Lateryour grip firmsmy body twisted oakbent and blissful When we are spentthese thin walls reveal those beyondboys brashly bantering home from a gigI imagine what they might have heardnot knowing
- [I was a cricketer](https://www.takahe.org.nz/i-was-a-cricketer/) - I was a cricketer back whenmy anterior talofibular ligament was intactand properly connected to the surrounding tissue.An all-rounder to be exact, in the lowest-ranked team of my local club.Identities are not always built on prowess, but bats knocked in on Christmas mornings,poker games during rain delays,pizzas on the fields outside our clubroomsthe night before I
- [Monologue](https://www.takahe.org.nz/monologue/) - Is light on skinvision? With the eyes closed—is this vision? The video of a moth on my laptop screenshines no real light on me.And the light on my ceiling, too,shines no real light on me. Onlydetailfronding into further detail:fact, and the responsibility of fact. Like the flower,I want light to beheat,flatness; I am againstparticulars. I will
- [Honeymoons](https://www.takahe.org.nz/honeymoons/) - In college I was an unpaid internwhich had benefitslike getting a manicureso they could use my handas a model,and writing about honeymoonsfor the bridal magazine. I was a dreamer,always going on honeymoons—Queenstown, Bora Bora—with the men Inever let myself be with, Sabrina the Teenage Witchleaving her affianced at the altarto hop on Harvey’s bike,tulle and
- [Sky Ladder](https://www.takahe.org.nz/sky-ladder/) - It came in a dream: I wasalone, the night around me, a rock as a pillow beneath my head. A great laddergrew from the earth, rung upon rung sprouting upwards in a vine-like manner. I knew it was a symboland that I should move towards it, knew I should stand at its base in preparation
- [Earthlings.](https://www.takahe.org.nz/earthlings/) - when the sediment sheets of thisperpetual mass-grave finally erode,what was once so fearsomere-emerges in fragments.scraps once shattered,once scattered, nowhappened upon and cobbledback into something thatalmost makes sense.maybe wrong the firstcouple times, maybedisassembled andreassembled again entirely.for the best, I think,that we can’t reallycomprehend what it would befor the world we takeas a given to break apartinto
- [Papaʻa](https://www.takahe.org.nz/papaa/) - ka papaʻa [kiʻa] 1) archive: As in: The papaʻa doesn’t get as many visitors as it once did. 2) backup, as in a computer program: You’re slow to throw away your father’s things: you keep a landline—his voice on the answering machine—though only scammers call; before Māmā cancels the number, you make a papaʻa of
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial-113/) - With this new issue comes our first of 2025 after what’s felt like a punishing year in Aotearoa New Zealand. With job losses across the country, in particular 11.6% of jobs in Wellington being cut, our elected officials forging ahead in their attempts to disempower Māori and undermine our founding document Te Tiriti o Waitangi,
- [There is nothing more embarrassing than wanting something](https://www.takahe.org.nz/there-is-nothing-more-embarrassing-than-wanting-something/) - Nothing. Nothing sears you with shame like longing, like desire—you are up on the world stage of desperation, you are a red-faced child reaching through a school fence for a toffee, you are a dog on a treadmill running itself to death for a bone. You are a greyhound in a dogfight whose last sight
- [And worse](https://www.takahe.org.nz/and-worse/) - I lived that summer in an architect’s error, the cruel setting sun making ovens of the study upstairs on the right, and the poky mezzanine in my room. My flatmates were a straight couple who approved loans for corporations and marketed disinfectant wipes,respectively. The message arrived at ten at night, while I was sitting on the edge of my bed recovering from
- [Black Sugarcane](https://www.takahe.org.nz/black-sugarcane/) - Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel. THWUP (2025). RRP: $30. PB, 128pp. ISBN: 9781776922222. Reviewed by Māia Te Whetū. To grow black sugarcane, the plant must be kept in full sun. The canes are dark and sweet and should remain humid to flourish. This debut collection of poetry by Nafanua Purcell Kersel is an embodiment
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-mark-prisco/) - scrambled eggs i I get out of bed & don’t look in the mirror.there are birds on my tree in my headin the garden. ii i fist the glass door & flowers open.a blackbird looks at mesideways. iii her hair is like a nest of baby vipersdead before they could crawl. iv i peel with
- [Symphony of Queer Errands](https://www.takahe.org.nz/symphony-of-queer-errands/) - Symphony of Queer Errands by Rachel O’Neill. Tender Press (2025). RRP: $30.00. PB, 110pp. ISBN: 9780473725754. Reviewed by Sophie van Waardenberg. Symphony of Queer Errands, the third book by filmmaker, writer and artist Rachel O’Neill, is impossible to describe concisely. Made up of eight parts, it follows a composer conceptualising, crafting and recrafting their titular
- [Mana Moana: Ngā Urungi o Te Ohu Kaimoana Toitū mō Anamata / Navigators of Sustainable Fisheries for the Future](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mana-moana/) - Mana Moana: Ngā Urungi o Te Ohu Kaimoana Toitū mō Anamata / Navigators of Sustainable Fisheries for the Future by Carla Houkamau and Robert Pouwhare. AUP (2025). RRP: $49.99. PB, 304pp. ISBN: 9781776711529. Reviewed by Vaughan Rapatahana. Mau anō e to mai te ika ki a koe. Ki te tino wawata koe ki te ika ka haere
- [Surplus Women](https://www.takahe.org.nz/surplus-women/) - Surplus Women by Michelle Duff. THWUP (2025). RRP: $35. PB, 240pp. ISBN: 9781776922284. Reviewed by Laura Borrowdale. It’s hard to know what to make of the short story form, and I say this as a short story writer. It’s a spiky, awkward form that often seems to belong more on classroom desks than bedside tables.
- [The Enemy Within](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-enemy-within/) - The Enemy Within by Maire Leadbeater. Potton & Burton (2024). RRP $40.00. PB, 250pp. ISBN: 9781988550657. Reviewed by Allan McEvoy. Activist, author and social worker Maire Leadbeater’s latest nonfiction book The Enemy Within is a first rate exposé of Aotearoa New Zealand government-sponsored intrusion into the lives of social activist movements and its lasting effects
- [Clay Eaters](https://www.takahe.org.nz/clay-eaters/) - Clay Eaters by Gregory Kan. AUP (2025). RRP: $29.99. PB, 128pp. ISBN: 9781776711536. Reviewed by Tim Grgec. At 18 years old, all male Singaporeans are required to undertake two years of military service. Over 20,000 recruits are enlisted every year, starting with nine weeks of basic military training on Pulau Tekong, or Tekong Island, on
- [Mystery Kererū](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mystery-kereru/) - Gordon Chaffey is an artist based in Wellington, New Zealand. They are working on a few different graphic novels. One is called Busy Nights, which is about their own life working the night shift for Uber, and also one called Phil, Demon Slayer of Kilbirnie. “Mystery Kererū” is a story from Busy Nights. Edited by
- [Catch](https://www.takahe.org.nz/catch/) - They have escaped to this region on the recommendation of Josh’s friend, who has family down this way. Josh and his partner, Matt, don’t think they know anyone else who lives or holidays here—not regularly. The whole environment is abnormally clean, the air and the freshwater springs, the bush, the burnished beaches, the sea and
- [The map of the tube on the wall](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-map-of-the-tube-on-the-wall/) - I studied the map of the London Underground hanging on the wall. Multi-coloured lines sprawled outwards, branching off from one another with no apparent logic. The whole thing was more like a diagram of an electric circuit than a map of a transport system. A thick, light-blue line made its way, in a jagged fashion,
- [Forms of Freedom](https://www.takahe.org.nz/forms-of-freedom/) - Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature by Dougal McNeill. OUP (2024). RRP: $45. PB, 248pp. ISBN: 9781990048760. Reviewed by Dani Yourukova. Lately, it seems like everyone wants to talk about endings. The end of winter. The end of term. The end of the year. The end of the world. The
- [Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/poems-talia-marshall/) - Freud I had a housewarming in the country for not many peopleWho did not know each other wellI made tamarillo chutney and spinach and feta frittersTony brought the wild pig which was female and not gameyAnd briefly we had a party because it was all so deliciousIn the photos I look unhappy and tightBecause I
- [Kataraina](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kataraina/) - Kataraina by Becky Manawatu. Mākaro Press (2024). RRP: $37.00. PB, 284pp. ISBN: 9781067011307. Reviewed by Jack Remiel Cottrell. Kataraina is the follow up to the acclaimed Auē by Becky Manawatu, but it would be a bit of a misnomer to call it a sequel. Or a prequel, to be honest. Kataraina is something of a
- [The Solace of Shrinking](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-solace-of-shrinking/) - Cartoonist Sharon Murdoch finds solace from covering the daily parade of political swine by literally shrinking her subjects down to size. She explains this system when I ask how she keeps herself psychologically intact when facing a daily diet of malice, lies, bigotry and bombast from the current coalition Government. It’s been a rambling, revealing
- [Poorhara](https://www.takahe.org.nz/poorhara/) - Poorhara by Michelle Rahurahu. THWUP (2024). RRP $38. PB, 344pp. ISBN 9781776921287. Reviewed by Emma Hislop. Tragedy and comedy are perfectly paired in Poorhara, the debut novel by Michelle Rahurahu (Ngāti Rahurahu, Ngāti Tahu–Ngāti Whaoa), a road trip story that swings between the hilarious and the heartbreaking in magnificent fashion. ‘If the ceiling burst, the landlord might think of selling
- [The old man and the tree](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-old-man-and-the-tree/) - It was a different story last night, driving homethrough the jewelled nightscape of the city, branches spangled across the back window,but morning is monochrome: silvered stumps splayedagainst an absent sky, limbs truncated, lopped offat the wrist; a torso stripped by the sure swipeof secateurs. The old man sighs. Hard to equate this petrified presence,these blanched discs
- [Tree Fellas](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tree-fellas/) - Ezra has all of his teeth. This is not particularly important but considering his peers, it is noteworthy. The other guys on his logging crew are not so dentally successful. They ride together with chainsaws and fuel cans in a flatbed truck to a forestry block almost exactly like the one they’ve just left. The
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-beyer/) - South of the city back then if you were a bad boyConstable ‘Cruiser’ Boat who represented the large bootof the law in the district would with the approvalof the entire communitypossibly including your parentsadminister a kick up the arse which remedy when appliedat the optimum juncturewas believed to eliminate all risk of recidivism it never occurred to
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-dogs/) - The Dogs When I think of the dogs I think of the clatter of biscuits in tin bowls,of chain on corrugated iron. Working dogs live outside and incidentally outside is what you say when you want them to leave. You saygettawayback you saywayleggoyou say come by, come by. Speak up. Once when I was four you had
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-ion-corcos/) - A Stuffed Owl in a Museum Potatoes in a box at the bottom of a rack,bitter greens bunched in twine, the cold air.The shop is dim inside, packs of sliced bread in brown paper bags. No soy or rice milkat this grocery store. I buy a bag of spinach,rinse the soil in the sink, pull the
- [I am the Walrus](https://www.takahe.org.nz/i-am-the-walrus/) - Tara Black is a cartoonist and the author of the graphic novel, This Is Not a Pipe. They have been known to post comics and graphic recordings at substack.taracomics.com.
- [Whaea Blue](https://www.takahe.org.nz/whaea-blue/) - Whaea Blue by Talia Marshall. THWUP (2024). RRP: $40. PB, 352pp. ISBN 9781776920136. Reviewed by Ariana Tikao. Whaea Blue is one of those friends who gets wasted and says the embarrassing things, the unfiltered. Talia Marshall’s writing is like the strong coffee my friend makes with the finest of grounds that permeate and sink to the bottom of the cup.
- [The Royal Free](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-royal-free/) - The Royal Free by Carl Shuker. THWUP (2024). RRP: $38.00. PB, 312pp. ISBN: 9781776922147. Reviewed by Nurus Van Vliet. Author Carl Shuker certainly has a knack for extracting drama from human error, each turn of the cog cinematically engineered towards a looming crisis point. His 2019 novel A Mistake, finalist for the 2020 Acorn Fiction
- [The Mires](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-mires/) - The Mires by Tina Makereti. Ultimo Press (2024). RRP: $39.99. PB, 320pp. ISBN: 9781761153693. Reviewed by Tulia Thompson. If the teenage character Wairere from Tina Makereti’s (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā) The Mires were a colour, she would be bright seagreen, water-coloured and inky. She is an unusual teenager caught between worlds. A
- [The Fight for Freshwater: A Memoir](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-fight-for-freshwater-a-memoir/) - The Fight for Freshwater: A Memoir by Mike Joy. Bridget Williams Books (2024). RRP: $39.99. PB, 218pp. ISBN: 9781991033840. Reviewed by Tim Jones. I’ve met Mike Joy, and I’ve heard him speak. He’s a knowledgeable, passionate, and an effective critic of the disastrous effect agribusiness in Aotearoa has had, and continues to have, on that
- [Shadow Worlds](https://www.takahe.org.nz/shadow-worlds/) - Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand by Andrew Paul Wood. MUP (2023). RRP: $55.00. PB, 424pp. ISBN: 9781991016379. Reviewed by Angus Smith. ‘It all distils to a yearning for spiritual experience.’ To the layperson, attempting merely to define the terms ‘occult’ and ‘esoteric’ seems an obscure task, breaching a
- [Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist](https://www.takahe.org.nz/edith-collier-early-new-zealand-modernist/) - Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist by Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson. MUP (2024). RRP: $70. HB, 256pp. ISBN: 9781991016768. Reviewed by Jenny Partington. Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist paints a portrait as vivid and lively as one of Edith’s own artworks. Despite working alongside celebrated artists such as Frances Hodgkins, Edith
- [Bad Archive](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bad-archive/) - Bad Archive by Flora Feltham. THWUP (2024). RRP: $35. PB, 256pp. ISBN: 9781776922062. Reviewed by Hannah Patterson. Personal essays take many different forms. They can be fragmented and vignette-y (see: Blueberries by Ellena Savage and Tinderbox by Megan Dunn), they can border on poetry (see: Bluets by Maggie Nelson), they can lean into argument and
- [silly goose](https://www.takahe.org.nz/silly-goose/) - my nemesis lives in western springs. an aviananger management failure. most aggrievedin his undignified land waddle, like a toddlerin a marshmallow costume on the way to the buffet table of bread crumbs. I am feeding him baguette bits because they have no nutritional valueand also to escape mr flappy rage machine. also known as mr hissing noodle and
- [Promising Mercy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/promising-mercy/) - To go around there is perhaps enough,but once again he has appropriated allthe sleep and now the wind sustainsyour insomnia like the jammed rightpedal of a haunted psychotic keyboard,moaning and wretched and frighteningas it smashes, slashes and gnashesagainst the windward end of the house. You are straining to catch its meaningand it begins to sound
- [Brown Eyes](https://www.takahe.org.nz/brown-eyes/) - uproarious pueblo browns and Turkic Qaraqalpaq golds make your irises rampageously gorgeous: your Tongan pa’anga eyes have an unresectable kind of beauty. you are an illuming tone. you look good (my eyes and mouth water) like everything i’ve ever wanted; i sit in the tonneau with you thinking, please say you’ll stay. you’re more precious
- [Voicenotes](https://www.takahe.org.nz/voicenotes/) - I saw this and thought of—let me know if you need—you must be bombarded with—there’s no pressure to—sending you so much—I’ve been thinking a lot about—actually this reminded me of you and your—you are one of the strongest people I—I am so proud of—he would be so proud of—are you—just bring—please text me when you
- [My New Year’s Resolution Is to Turn into a Refrigerator](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-new-years-resolution-is-to-turn-into-a-refrigerator/) - I will stop reading love poetry. I will stop writing love poetry. I will stop having feelings like love and desire for poetry. I will have feelings like I belong in every home in America and if you push me out of a tall building I will kill everyone in my path. I will become hard, and cold. And sleek. Very sleek. Clean
- [Rules for Living](https://www.takahe.org.nz/rules-for-living/) - Now, your job is to turn the scary things sillyIt is exhausting and vaguely patronising Do you know how hard it is to chit chat at a social event while picturing smashing the bowl of your wine glass and driving the sharp stem into your throat? What have I been reading? Oh, nothing highbrow And
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/noragrets/) - #noragrets flying high # i say put it in my obituary # say thati sold my soul # but never to the devil # i killedmyself and i killed her # i killed my dreams andthey killed me # tell them i blew all the cash on #wishes spending time throwing up # throwing it
- [Quilt run](https://www.takahe.org.nz/quilt-run/) - A day of westerly gales,fallen branches, leafage, willy-williesclattering the car’s panels with grit.White wavelets to the left of the causeway.You in the passenger seat, sewing labelson two improv art quilts, the finishing touch.North of Bodalla, two trees down,closing a lane, ours the one moving;a big man in fluoro gear trotting to assess,his ute flashing yellow
- [Salt of the earth](https://www.takahe.org.nz/salt-of-the-earth/) - I drop in, she hugs me, offersfive kinds of tea, finds biscuits.Up close, her neck is a country mileof sundrenched hills and valleys.She is solidly fit, walksto the Four Square. He: beer-keg belly,ruined back. She shows me a poemshe wrote for him on one of their tripsto the beach. They’ve been a couplesince high school.
- [Nightcaps](https://www.takahe.org.nz/nightcaps/) - The town over sells fresh honey and chutney.We must have lost the arms race, as our farmers’ market isnow filled only with familiar faces. The prices are fixed, like vice grips onto framed timber.Bartering is punishable by death. I have died a thousand times and, like Christ,walked past the rolled stones,nails in my soft hands.
- [four rhyming tercets](https://www.takahe.org.nz/four-rhyming-tercets/) - the tall grass shades under the mānuka groveriver drifts by: blushed with carplads lying, sentimental, at heart fertility pulses in the veinsmen men till they’re nota torn convoluted plot whole tumble of misfortunegrass scratching against the thighsthe river gliding, her eyes wheat-weary grass-cudding tunesandwich-up on the mud-moss bankfeet pressing, none to thank Brett Cross has
- [my 16 paid jobs](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-16-paid-jobs/) - 1. haberdashery counter at Woolworthsthe grubbiness of my black miniskirt and white polothen from elastic and interfacingtransferred on Christmas Eve to the scrum at confectionerythe notes and coins with coconut icetumble from my butterfingers 2. in the white starch change roombegging for safety pinsso i can close my overallalready beneath my beltone fastening missed Nurse! Nurse! 3. writing radio
- [Columbus](https://www.takahe.org.nz/columbus/) - His thundering horses his river of goldhis liquid altar you dare not speak I understand those white sails in the Pacific were something he always dreamed of a thousand miles away but I managed to limp home to light my child’s lamp before he went to sleep Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena’s fourth chapbook, With Different Wars Raging, is forthcoming from
- [The Gift](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-gift/) - The day you fly to Dunedin for a writer’s residency, you google a woman you knew from Otago law school. She’s just appeared in court for a man accused of taking something from a woman, which the woman said she didn’t want to give. That could have been you, you think, defending men who choose
- [INSTRUCTIONS FOR BOILED POTATOES](https://www.takahe.org.nz/instructions-for-boiled-potatoes/) - Pick up the potatoes and place them in the sink. Don’t get nervous. Let them lie down, next to each other, calm and still, all by themselves. Then try brushing them off, one by one, rinsing under running water. It can be done. Don’t think too much. What lies before you can only be summed
- [Hotaru](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hotaru/) - They’re not even flies. They’re a family of elateroid beetle with more than two thousand named species. Many, but not all, are light-emitting. In Japan, they’re called hotaru but the scientific name is nipponoluciola cruciata. I learned all of this from Shun. ‘Let’s go for a drive,’ he suggested. He spoke in English. It was
- [East Wind](https://www.takahe.org.nz/east-wind/) - The east wind is blowing the day Meg finds out she is pregnant. She leaves the remains of the pregnancy kit strewn across the floor of the public toilet, strides out across the carpark and follows the gorse-choked path to the ocean. Standing on the dune, wind and sand whipping her face, she stares out
- [Deep Waters](https://www.takahe.org.nz/deep-waters/) - The English Flower Garden, it’s called. Not many flowers in this late Autumn month, though. A few ragged roses, a bed of irises, something white and anonymous in a couple of borders. He and she walk a gravel path to the mock-Edwardian pavilion that faces lawn and ornamental pond. Around them, trees shiver in the
- [The polar bears of Kolyuchin Island](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-polar-bears-of-kolyuchin-island/) - (Excerpts from the diaries of Officers Jeffrey, McKenzie, Robinson, McGregor, Draper) 1 1400 hrs. From the ship the rocky cliffs and shores are visible, but only intermittently as gales play with the clouds, lifting them for periods of thin sunlight, then dropping them, plunging the horizon into grey foggy thickness. Eventually binoculars and drones
- [Motherless Mother](https://www.takahe.org.nz/essay/) - Urinating on my bedroom carpet as a child some thirty years ago had been intentional, though not malicious. I’d been going through a curious phase and discovered rather quickly that the bodily process responsible for urination was indeed voluntary. When I told my mother about it she barely stole her weary gaze away from the
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial-112/)
- [Cassie Hart ](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cassie-hart/) - Your beautiful piece in the current issue of takahē, “fog/fugue,” talks about what feels like addiction and the process of taking back power. It’s both dark and hopeful, I think. Can you tell us what was on your mind during the writing of that piece? The story came about because of an actual experience of
- [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)](https://www.takahe.org.nz/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/) - The clatter of skateboarders down at the memorial. We are in the long grasswatching each other watch the citysilvering into dusk. Overhead, birdsare making their way home. A sirenrolls away around the basin and there isa bee on your hand and it loves youlike a flower, softon the junction between jacket and flesh. It is
- [Five Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/x-poems/) - From Telepresences Teratophilematology My Zoom therapist is tender under her Bill Clinton mask. Her retrievertongues the plastic wrinkles like a sloppy car wash. She makes me choose who tasted better: sexy Freddy Kruger or the Jägerbombed Leatherfacethat slapped the bouncer. How many people touch you each day? Did you know lipstick was invented to simulate a healthy
- [Vultures](https://www.takahe.org.nz/vultures/) - Vultures by Jenny Rockwell. Dead Bird Books (2024). RRP: $30. PB, 59pp. ISBN: 9781738618231. Reviewed by Dani Yourukova. Vultures is a vibrant debut from Tāmaki Makaurau poet Jenny Rockwell, lush with emotionality, nosebleeds, glow-in-the-dark Jesus statues, religious shame and grave dirt. A candid coming-of-age narrative set in church basements and girls’ bathrooms, which contains a
- [undressing in slow motion](https://www.takahe.org.nz/undressing-in-slow-motion/) - undressing in slow motion by Michael Giacon. Michael Giacon (2024). RRP $30. PB, 99pp. ISBN: 9780473707743. Reviewed by Angus Smith. As both a debut collection and one written by a queer septuagenarian, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Michael Giacon’s undressing in slow motion is preoccupied with the concept of time. From the opening dedication ‘in questo
- [Tidelines](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tidelines/) - Tidelines by Kiri Piahana-Wong. Anahera Press (2024). RRP: $25. PB, 40pp. ISBN: 9780473710163. Reviewed by Tracey Sharp. At Te Ahua Point, sitting high above the rugged coastline of Piha in West Auckland, stands the pou of Hinerangi. Hinerangi, a beautiful and chiefly tūpuna of Te Kawerau ā Maki (tangata whenua of the area now known
- [The Raven’s Eye Runaways](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-ravens-eye-runaways/) - The Raven’s Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey. Allen and Unwin (2024). RRP: $24.99. PB, 336pp. ISBN: 9781991006820. Reviewed by Laura Borrowdale. The best children’s literature riffs on the literature that has come before it, and few forms are as codified as fantasy adventures. The echoes of pint-sized heroes and heroines and the monsters they have
- [Still Is](https://www.takahe.org.nz/still-is/) - Still Is by Vincent O’Sullivan. THWUP (2024). RRP: $30. PB, 122pp. ISBN: 9781776922093. Reviewed by Tim Grgec. I never got a chance to read Vincent O’Sullivan at university. He lectured in the English department at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and was made an emeritus professor long before I arrived. I knew the name,
- [Hine Toa](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hine-toa/) - Hine Toa by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku. HarperCollins (2024). RRP: $39.99. PB, 336pp. ISBN: 9781775542322. Reviewed by Isla Huia. Hine Toa is the blazing memoir from activist, rangatira, and advocate for the underdog, Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku. Te Awekōtuku’s early days at the pā of Ōhinemotu, her conflicted rangatahitanga as a student and wāhine takatāpui, and her
- [Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud](https://www.takahe.org.nz/fox-spirit-on-a-distant-cloud/) - Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray. The Cuba Press (2024). RRP: $28. PB, 138pp. ISBN: 9781988595771. Reviewed by Nurus Van Vliet. What a thrill and an honour it was to read this book. Author Lee Murray’s novel-in-verse, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, is evocative from cover to cover and reading it
- [Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another](https://www.takahe.org.nz/everything-that-moves-moves-through-another/) - Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another edited by Jennifer Cheuk. 5ever Books (2024). RRP: $65. PB, 231pp. ISBN: 9780473713560. Reviewed by Vera Hua Dong. Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another is a lavish tapestry of sounds and shapes of languages, colours and aromas of spices, and most of all, of the lightness and heaviness of
- [Cosmetics](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cosmetics/) - We brought back lacquerware plates that we had painted with almond sap and sprinkled with coloured mica as if we were masters—a drop of dust and a knowing nod, greeted by the sound of hands meeting—as if we were the most important part of the process. And the starts of chapters are marked with torn receipts, where I had asked how she would
- [Counting the emanations](https://www.takahe.org.nz/counting-the-emanations/) - His emanation was at least five emanations away from the main emanation;Someone had counted; someone else had counted twice;But how many emanations had he left before he departed entirely from their field of vision,From their plane of compresence and suffering?That was hard to tell.Could be four; could be eighteen;It could that he had passed the
- [My Dog Corduroy the Crime-Fighting Hound](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-dog-corduroy-the-crime-fighting-hound/) - 1. My dog is a retired racing dog called Luca. I’m not allowed to call him a rescue, and I’m not allowed to use his image to promote anti-racing propaganda so all I’ll say is he arrived to us with a broken tail and one and a half ears and a deep terror of the
- [ode to redwoods](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ode-to-redwoods/) - my loves stretch for eons towards the horizonnot your californian cultborn from firestorm deathbut still taller than god and i reckon more loyalsit on the corpse in the centreand observe as your body hovers two hundred feet above slow groundsalamanders snooze and ooze in the canopyembracing fairy rings underneathroots spoon the murk and needles sip
- [Love Thy Neighbour](https://www.takahe.org.nz/love-thy-neighbour/) - I In childhood I was up the pear tree so often & the soft bodies of butterflies bumped against fermenting fruit flesh& bees hummed sweetlyfull of needles& the platform smelt of rot from yearly bumper crops& I watched patients of Joy, the Jungian psychologist,trail down our shared drivewayclutching their dream journals. Joy was a Catholic & gave us apples at
- [Predestination](https://www.takahe.org.nz/predestination/) - Predestination was something my motherthought was a holiday you found outabout when you got to the airport. I saw it as removing the blindfoldafter they put you in the coffin,discovering too late they’d dressed you in a shirt that didn’t match your jacket. That’s you for eternity.Taking you out of your natural habitat, deciding for you
- [Pulling Ragwort, for 50 Cents an Hour](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pulling-ragwort-for-50-cents-an-hour/) - The first person to descendon Mars will findat the dusty footof the lander ragwort.And when we finallyget to a distant nebulait will be discovered that new-born starsare ragwort in a swampy mist—next to a flying saucerof dry cow shit. And when we dieand if there truly isan almightyGod he will be sittingin his all-grazing glorylike
- [Oak Bracket](https://www.takahe.org.nz/oak-bracket/) - In the corner of the cemetery,an ancient tree is edged with death. A schism in the bark has been stopperedwith weeping polypore: a poor bandage. The fungal body fruits like honeycomb,oozing amber beads, a fragrant wound. This loaf of mushroom, spongy and splitlike a pomegranate, is unrepentant. It is a scavenger, searching for the rotting,a
- [For Glenn Gould](https://www.takahe.org.nz/for-glenn-gould/) - I like the ambient twittering noises you hear around offices. You, a Canadian, may not understand. You became so old once,didn’t you—and yet your strangeness outlives you, lives outside of you as Ialso live outside of you. I do feel, inside (wherever that is), that I am alive and youare not but not so much that I am moved to
- [uairean a’ lasadh](https://www.takahe.org.nz/uairean-a-lasadh/) - the day / conjures a / forest / carves trees / from body’s absence / body of the mountains, body at the mercy of animal / the day / asks for feathering / asks for / a homing of pulse / begs palms / to gloam against the gully’s wanting / the day / dreams
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-2/) - Patient Notes / All My Therapists Keep Trying To Rent Me 1 Bdrm Apartments Sitting in the office of the new therapist who used to be a landlord, she has the voice of my actual landlord, who won’t stop breaking into my apartment, and the mannerisms of my future mother-in-law, and I start to worry
- [the Pahi Hotel fire](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-pahi-hotel-fire/) - When I ask her about the fire, her lipspurse like a newspaper’s crimpled edge,and my pencil poised, my notepad ready,she opens her lady’s purse buying time. And she’s got my attention that’s for sure:inside’s a grey smudge about to be written,the newsprint mystery-ink of brushed leatherleft open, by design, like a gap, like a silence.
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/after-hardship/) - after hardship after hardshipthe yellow guava’s five equal trunks only sprout leaf clustersthe size of a hand— each bough a furred tailemerged from earth— no branches wander offno delicacy extends— all cards held close for hundreds of losable little betsand no guavas to speak of(maybe ten at the extremitiesand small) having determined(though surely not in these words)to transition from productive to ornamentallike the tin flour sifteror the
- [Paekākā i te Pō I](https://www.takahe.org.nz/paekaka-i-te-po-i/) - Kua taka te pōTū tonu ana ngā rākauHe ara atarau E hora ake mai nei Te Ara MamakuE huna ai i ngā tini whetūAnō nei Te MangōroaAnō nei he ikarangi kēNgunungunu ai I ngā pakiaka huhua Rikoriko maiWhakahīnātore maiTitia maiKātahi te whakaohomauriPai nei! E ngā whetū rikiriki waiwaiāE ngā Titiwai, tēnā koutou! Paekākā i te Pō |
- [eyes and bones and all](https://www.takahe.org.nz/eyes-and-bones-and-all/) - three days post-opthere are five lefton Alone UK the one who dances in the forestgets lost in treeswho curses at birds the one who boils underwear in a potso bears won’t comefor the smell of blood the one who weeps for a squirrelwho takes its toothto carve a coal tattoo the one without fishwho starves laughingfrom
- [How to bear a sudden weight](https://www.takahe.org.nz/how-to-bear-a-sudden-weight/) - It’s early November and the warmingdawn air carries the certainty ofchange. Inside, the tap finally pourswarm ready for my post-run lemonwater. For fear of waking anyone (and this fearruns deep) I choose the woodenchopping board over the formicabench-top on which to place my glass as Iundertake the ritual of slicingyellow flesh— I figure wood is
- [Toto](https://www.takahe.org.nz/toto/) - After Marama Salsano’s ‘Bloodwork’ Every few months I fill an inkwell with my blood and watch other people start writing with it.They dip the pointed heads of their pens into the jar and draw up just enoughto write a quarterly entry in their notes about me.I assume they record how my blood works. One lifts the bottle
- [The curve of the hill home](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-curve-of-the-hill-home/) - On the beach my belly rippled, thick with the baby… I watched a child’s head go under, and not resurface. Where was the mother? Gone. Unthinking, I ran into the waves. Gentle they were, like silk around my bairn. I struck out towards the darkened hair. Behind my closed eyes, lies the curve of the
- [A long time to get home](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-long-time-to-get-home/) - Somewhere two kids are leaving the kitchen. Somewhere, a mother has given instructions. Can you two do a job for me? Go and pick up the milk from the gate. It’s one of those days where the Southerly has swept the sky clean. You’re wearing denim dungarees. The label on the front says SKIN JEANS.
- [Backstroke in a Mud Puddle](https://www.takahe.org.nz/backstroke-in-a-mud-puddle/) - I am three and I am running away. I am running away from my brother and my sister and into the water falling from the sky. They wear togs. My sisters are dark blue like the moana when there’s about to be thunder. The frills at the hips are wavy shades of sunshine. My brother
- [Hand Seller](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hand-seller/) - I watch the road. I live in a little copse of trees and I keep a fire waiting for strangers. I am a transmutating thing—I can form into fog or a pack of rats. I like best to transform into an owl, the most vicious owl, and I tap tap tap on people's windows and
- [One Summer](https://www.takahe.org.nz/one-summer/) - One summer the clouds changed into whales. Before that happened it had been one of those disquiet summers. People had stopped at the seashore to watch lightning storms gathering on the horizon; they had quit their jobs and their failed marriages, instead massing lazily in the city’s parks; they had complained about the heat and
- [A place to stand](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-place-to-stand/) - We need a setting for this story, but nobody can afford a garden anymore, there’s Covid in the bars, and the seas aren’t safe to swim in. The chateau by the mountain was unprofitable and fell into disrepair. The sports fields aren’t fit for use after the floods. Where do we go, but our apartments
- [The poets](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-poets/) - Every twenty-eight days, the poets posted pictures of the full moon in the group chat. ‘Wife looking horny tonight,’ they wrote. ‘So hot.’ ‘Harvest Wife, resplendent in fog.’ In life, it was true, the full moon magicked the sad city and its rumpled harbour. In life, it was huge and magnetic. In the photos, though,
- [Sustenance](https://www.takahe.org.nz/sustenance/) - Before my first appointment, I walk through drizzly Newtown, my shoes belching. Personal bias, maybe, but to me this place has always seemed like a cartoon dog with a giant rain cloud over its head. It makes complete sense that here, in 1903, a gardener would have made a formal request for half a tonne
- [Gnaw](https://www.takahe.org.nz/gnaw/) - Leah felt reckless. She sucked air through her teeth as she strode across the sand to the bonfire. There were still a few beers in the bucket. Nothing she liked, but that wasn’t the point. Jimmy stood close to where the waves rushed up the beach and sucked back out. Hungry, the ocean is hungry,
- [The tomatoes in my sapphic cottagecore fantasy are dead now and it’s all because of you](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-tomatoes-in-my-sapphic-cottagecore-fantasy-are-dead-now-and-its-all-because-of-you/) - The husband is standing in front of my register and he looks incredibly uncomfortable. We are unnaturally far apart, and he shuffles his weight from foot to foot. He studies the drink fridge intensely, as if Sprite is an exciting new seasonal flavour, while running his fingers repetitively through his short greying hair. It’s been
- [Whitey](https://www.takahe.org.nz/whitey/) - There were not too many white people left, if any. Not real white anyway. There used to be before the Edict was enforced. Nowadays the only way to sight them was in a circus somewhere, or in the nearest museum where their atrophied carcasses were on permanent view in the history collection. And everybody knows
- [Eleanor](https://www.takahe.org.nz/eleanor/) - I gazed out over the disused hospital patio. Beyond, brightly garbed workers drained the pond to make way for a new parkade. Ana dozed on the bed, Eleanor in the bassinet. I stood guard, a bulwark against the return of the frenzied excitement of the previous night. The world was hazy and calm. Eleanor stirred.
- [Float](https://www.takahe.org.nz/float/) - ‘Have you floated before?’ the woman asks me. The man next to her looks up from behind the front desk. I shake my head. The woman stands up and hands me an iPad with the terms and conditions. She invites me to take a seat on the bulbous couch opposite us. I perch on the
- [On the Dawn of the Winter’s Solstice](https://www.takahe.org.nz/on-the-dawn-of-the-winters-solstice/) - On the dawn of the solstice, under a sky washed clean of clouds, through the cold air cut with woodsmoke, through the piñon-juniper hills, the quiet comes singing. The quiet takes the shape of a woman. Frost in her hair, mud on her boots, a woman comes singing down the hills, her voice a holy
- [fog/fugue](https://www.takahe.org.nz/fog-fugue/) - Chills wrack my body and my head pounds, throbbing in time to the beat of my heart. The sound of the ocean vibrates around this hill. I try so hard to hang on to the susurration, but it doesn’t ease my mind. Nothing helps. Nothing but her. The fog rose just over an hour ago,
- [Pop another pill](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pop-another-pill/) - Mugabi Byenkya is from Kampala, Uganda. Paul Bourgeois is from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. They are friends first, who became collaborators, trading Mugabi's words for Paul's illustrations. They have been published in Carte Blanche, Not Your Monolith (NYM), The Ake Review, Tower Magazine and An Epiphany At Midnight.
- [The Art of Jordan Quinnell](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-art-of-jordan-quinnell/) - by Andrew Paul Wood Palmerston North-based Jordan Quinnell was born and raised in Ōpunake on the Taranaki coast, and his whakapapa is to Ngā Ruahine, Taranaki and Tūwharetoa iwi. He has a bachelor’s degree, post-graduate diploma (with Merit), and Masters of Māori Visual Art (with Distinction) through the Toioho ki Āpiti Māori Arts programme at
- [A Xeno in Greece](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-xeno-in-greece/) - I grew up a foreigner in my own country. I was born in Australia to Greek immigrants, but my parents were born in Egypt, not Greece. So I grew up a Greek-Egyptian boy in Australia, a cultural mix that was a target for racism. There wasn’t much room to fit in. In the 1970s, Bondi
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial-2/) - Tēnā koutou katoa, Welcome to T111, the August 2024 issue of takahē! The number 111 is supposed to be auspicious, portending opportunity and achievement and general good vibes. We could all use a bit of that. Wars are ongoing, housing and food are eye-wateringly expensive, 2024 is likely to be hottest year ever recorded on
- [Hamburger Jesus](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hamburger-jesus/) - When you’re just a young chap and it’s the nuns teaching you, what often happens during art class is you decide to paint Jesus. As if it’s your own idea and not Sister Perpetua nudging you in a certain direction. In my case, the picture of Jesus morphed into a picture of a hamburger. But
- [Safety Glass](https://www.takahe.org.nz/safety-glass/) - There’s power in naming things: swallow/warou, yellowhead/mohua, saddleback/tīeke, tūī is tūī. I name the 23 glass birds flying along the length of our hallway. The long overhead skylight is a reflecting pool, the birds’ glass bodies deepening and lightening as they ring in the weather changes. Each bird a ‘this is your life’ moment, right
- [The New Tamara](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-new-tamara/) - A beautiful dress caught Emily’s eye in the Fortuny shop. A grey wisp of wool, falling softly from the shoulders. She was thinking of buying more antique fruit plates for her new flat on Nekrasova Street, but the dress drove them out of her mind. Beautiful china and clothes were an old craving, suppressed while
- [Pete](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pete/) - This story is a retelling of Hector Munro’s classic 1911 short story “Tobermory." Everybody gathered at Bob’s place, drifting in late Christmas morning after they’d opened their presents wherever they were staying. The women from out of town brought meringues and whipped cream, then spread berries on top of the dessert. The men brought beer, except for
- [Prodigy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/prodigy/) - I’m waiting in the wings tonight. My eyes are locked in a tunnel of black and white. Without the clarity of keys, things are blurred and grey. Voices ring atonal. Away from a piano, I know nothing. I am a cold woman. I’ve been instructed to smile more, and to laugh at jokes, even when
- [About the co-editors](https://www.takahe.org.nz/about-the-co-editors/) - Melanie Kwang is a first-generation Taishanese-New Zealand writer from Ōtautahi. She completed the Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland in 2018. Her work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, and performed as play readings with local theatre companies. By day, Rebecca Reader helps university students polish their academic writing. By
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/fiction-readers-issue-winter-2024-editorial/) - Welcome to the very first takahē Fiction Readers’ Issue! This special mini-issue of takahē features five stories selected and co-edited by members of our Fiction Reading Team: Melanie Kwang, Rebecca Reader, Rebecca Styles, Clare Travaglia, Philippa Tucker, and Jill Varani. Our Fiction Reading Team usually works behind the scenes, with 20 members dedicating their time
- [Renee Liang](https://www.takahe.org.nz/renee-liang/) - We're so excited the incredible Renee Liang is judging the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2024! Dr Renee Liang 梁文蔚 MNZM is a poet, paediatrician, playwright and essayist. After exploring open mics in Broken Hill, Australia, Renee joined the MC team at Poetry Live, becoming known for running slams. Since then Renee has become a jack
- [Anne Kennedy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/anne-kennedy/) - Anne Kennedy’s recent books are The Sea Walks into a Wall, The Ice Shelf, and, as editor, Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealand. Awards and fellowships include the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry, the NZ Post Book Award for Poetry, and the IIML Writers Residency. Anne is the
- [Alie Benge](https://www.takahe.org.nz/alie-benge/) - Alie has been takahē’s essay editor since 2022 and is sadly now moving on to other opportunities. We interviewed her to chat about what’s next, her essay collection Ithaca, and what’s been her favourite thing about editing essays at takahē. Gosh! In the time you’ve been at takahē you’ve published an essay collection, moved countries
- [Emma Ling Sidnam](https://www.takahe.org.nz/emma-ling-sidnam/) - Emma Sidnam is a Wellington-based writer and lawyer. As a fourth-generation Asian New Zealander, she is passionate about representation and ensuring that all voices are heard. She is a slam poet and her work has been published in the Spinoff, Capital, Newsroom and the anthologies A Clear Dawn and Middle Distance. Her debut novel Backwaters won the Michael Gifkins Prize and was longlisted for the
- [Síle Mannion](https://www.takahe.org.nz/sile-mannion/) - Síle has been takahē’s reviews editor since 2022, curating a diverse and fascinating set of reviews for each edition, but is sadly now moving on to other opportunities. We interviewed her to chat about what’s next, her writing plans, and what’s been her favourite thing about editing reviews at takahē. What has been your favourite
- [Claudia Jardine](https://www.takahe.org.nz/claudia-jardine/) - Author of Biter, published April 2023, our guest poet for Takahē 106 The best poetry, like yours, shows strong themes, perhaps what could be called obsessions. The way you use ‘double-cab utes in an urban environment’ in pieces with completely different subjects was really neat. Would you be able to talk a bit about these obsessions
- [Emma Hislop](https://www.takahe.org.nz/emma-hislop/) - Guest Fiction Writer takahē Issue 106, December 2022. What was the inspiration for this story? What process did you go through to shape it into its finished form? After my son was born, the hospital threw out his whenua, despite us filling in a form stating we wanted to keep it, and informing, and reminding
- [Peter Bakowski](https://www.takahe.org.nz/peter-bakowski/) - Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet of great experience, whose work is flexible, accessible, and inventive. He had a poem, ‘Release’, in takahē 107. He’s embarking on a poetry tour of Aotearoa New Zealand in May and June. Erik Kennedy, our Poetry Editor, asked him some questions ahead of his arrival from Naarm Melbourne. It
- [Gregory Bennett](https://www.takahe.org.nz/gregory-bennett/) - Gregory is a writer and filmmaker from Wellington whose accent comes from Invercargill. They hold a Masters in Creative Writing from the IIML and currently work for a disability support services provider in Melbourne, Australia. Their story, 'Heat Death of the Internet', was published in our 110th issue and struck a chord with readers, amassing
- [HIWA: Contemporary Māori Short Stories](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hiwa-contemporary-maori-short-stories/) - HIWA: Contemporary Māori Short Stories edited by Paula Morris. AUP (2023). RRP: $45. PB, 271pp. ISBN: 978 86940 9951. Reviewed by Vaughan Rapatahana. He aha te tikanga o tēnei kupu, Hiwa? I roto i tāna Tīmatanga Kōrero, ko te tohutoro a Paula Morris ‘Hiwa-i-te-rangi, te iwa me te whetū whakamutunga o te kāhui Matariki,’ me
- [Bird Life](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bird-life/) - Bird Life by Anna Smaill. THWUP (2023). RRP: $38.00. PB, 296pp. ISBN: 9781776921249. Reviewed by S. J. Hook. No one wants to begin a literary review quoting 90s self-help guru Steven Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Especially since our two main protagonists, Dinah and Yasuko, may not be who Covey had
- [A garden is a long time](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-garden-is-a-long-time/) - A garden is a long time by Annemarie Hope-Cross and Jenny Bornholdt. THWUP (2023). Published in association with Rim Books. RRP: $50.00. HB 151pp. ISBN: 9781776920839. Reviewed by Michelle Elvy. I find myself going back to this book time and again. In fact, it invites us to go beyond notions of time—to sit with objects,
- [Rugby League in New Zealand: A People’s History](https://www.takahe.org.nz/rugby-league-in-new-zealand-a-peoples-history/) - Rugby League in New Zealand: A People’s History by Ryan Bodman. Bridget Williams Books (2023). RRP: $59.99. PB, 364pp. ISBN: 9781991033444. Reviewed by Robert McLean. I remain more convinced than not that an interesting book can be written about almost anything at all; which is to say, such books may throw an unexpected light on
- [Tsunami with Mushrooms](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tsunami-with-mushrooms/) - Tsunami with Mushrooms: Poems & Stories by Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga. Steele Roberts (2023). RRP: $25.00. PB, 174pp. ISBN: 9781738589272. Reviewed by Moata McNamara. Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga, of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ati Haunui a Paparangi, and Ngāti Hauiti ki Rata descent, has a rich and varied background as writer, curator and heritage and historical advisor.
- [You Are My Sunshine](https://www.takahe.org.nz/you-are-my-sunshine/) - You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade. Stelliform Press (2023). RRP: $31.00. PB, 208pp. ISBN: 9781778092640. Reviewed by Alexander Pyles. The slow-moving horror of extinction and knowledge of what humanity could have done differently pervades Octavia Cade’s debut collection, You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. The inherent grief embedded in some
- [a liminal gathering](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-liminal-gathering/) - a liminal gathering: Elixir & Star Grief Almanac 2023, edited by Iona Winter. Elixir & Star Press (2023). RRP: $32.99. PB, 188pp. ISBN: 9780473689179. Reviewed by Hester Ullyart. It is the day of a dear friend's father’s funeral. I open the new collection resting on my desk. The epigraph reads: ‘Love knows not its own
- [Cool Jazz and Monochromes: The Paintings of Jamie Te Heuheu](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cool-jazz-and-monochromes-the-paintings-of-jamie-te-heuheu/) - At the State Hermitage Museum, people are constantly taking selfies in front of Black Square (1915). Whether or not we consider it to be a ‘correct’ way to engage with an artwork, selfie-taking is increasingly common in art museums world-wide; it’s a contemporary cultural phenomenon, with audiences typically singling out a particular ‘iconic’ work to
- [Seven Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/seven-poems/) - My Education from 1964 to I Forget Souls You can tell the rolls of dust under the bed are ghostsbecause their bodies are see-throughbut they have their own mind, their own fierce, unpredictable, grey mind.Your mind crouches inside your hard white head. Ghosts are actually souls. Ghosts, souls, dust—all the same. Your soul is a white
- [Revenge](https://www.takahe.org.nz/revenge/) - Now is the time after living so longto think of those who’ve done me wrong. They say revenge is a dish best served coldwell my freezer is full and I’m getting old. Michael Gould’s poetry has appeared in publications both academic and popular in Aotearoa New Zealand (e.g., Landfall, The Spinoff), Australia (e.g., Meniscus, Otoliths),
- [Kuchen—A Love Story](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kuchen-a-love-story/) - When I was eleven years old, my mother took me for Kaffee und Kuchen | coffee and cake at the Café Landtmann in Vienna. We sat in an elegant room with high ceilings, under severely beautiful lamps. We were tourists, like several other customers, but there were a handful of old Austrian men, too, wearing
- [Mamadi and the Chickens](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mamadi-and-the-chickens/) - As children, wild and unwatched in the streets of Kerman, we played dodgeball religiously. Every day, no exceptions. Those days our bodies were still as swift as hummingbirds, as agile as fish, swooshing away from the yellow ball thrown at us as if it were a comet on fire. The most glorious moments of the
- [Finger Patterns](https://www.takahe.org.nz/finger-patterns/) - 1 Last August, I bought a one-way ticket to Mexico City where I stayed in a hostel and spent nine days losing myself in anything and everything I could. I drank happy hour margaritas and did lines with my new friends and went to raves downtown. Still sparkly from the booze and the drugs, I
- [Everything Nice](https://www.takahe.org.nz/everything-nice/) - Helena Pantsis (she/they) is an editor, writer, and artist from Naarm, Australia, with a fond appreciation for the gritty, the dark, and the experimental. Her works have been published in Overland, Island, Meanjin, and Cordite. More can be found at hlnpnts.com.
- [your words](https://www.takahe.org.nz/your-words/) - you can see your words in my wordsyou see i chose to eat your words and down they went into my bellythere they swirl become my own when i speakfrom my belly Dr Rachel Faleatua has published on authenticity labour in the Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies and has a book chapter on
- [Them](https://www.takahe.org.nz/them/) - They love lie detection tests and detention bracelets.They inflate a soft toy globe, they puff with notable lips.They discuss persecution complexes.They have devastation visited upon them.They always hark back to analogue times.They anguish about the good, the bad, the God-bothered.They make a welter of air kisses.They demand a simultaneous translation.They are drifting along a flight
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/editorial/) - ‘Poetry,’ wrote W. H. Auden, ‘makes nothing happen.’ The vitriolic political furore that erupted around poet Tusiata Avia and her poem about Captain Cook, ‘The Savage Coloniser,’ around this time last year would seem to suggest that this is, in fact, not the case. This was a case of something very much happening, indeed, breathtakingly
- [Yellowcake](https://www.takahe.org.nz/yellowcake/) - There in your kitchen, we crack brown eggs over your sink.Hushed, we redefine our childhood legends. Yoruba tales whisper about the cunning tortoise who would listen to the meeting of the birds and make a feathered shell with his own two hands. Rubbed raw and pink in Jerusalem bathwater.Or—no. Maybe not Jerusalem. Maybe Ilé-Ifẹ̀. Maybe it’s
- [Ohiro Road, Brooklyn](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ohiro-road-brooklyn/) - The departure was as awkward as how it started. Moving a flaccid mattress between Wellington flats. One hundred and eleven steps down, fifty-seven up. Then fifty-seven down and one hundred and eleven up, back to the van to get more stuff: your Penguin book collection, Vice magazines, SodaStream, coffee machine, rare and dear-to-you vinyl (Aztec
- [And you say ‘green’](https://www.takahe.org.nz/and-you-say-green/) - Kārerarerapale like fresh growthof māhoe across Zealandia’svalley in spring, or atasty Granny Smithto be cooked up in a pudding Kākārikia beautiful rich green, like (obvs)the native parrot that Mumbred out at the farmwith red or yellow crownsand cheeky little chatters Kārikiuridark green like a Christmas treewith spiky upturned branchesthat give ‘the finger’or my old school
- [Pet Lessons](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pet-lessons/) - I don’t see cats chatting with their mates, lamenting their work performance,dissecting their every yowl and mew,wishing they’d said it differently,if they should have stayed late, wonderinghow the other cats might judge them. I don’t see dogs lying awake at nightturning that conversation over and overin their minds, worrying over it like they woulda bone. They
- [#550 Lost Chickpeas](https://www.takahe.org.nz/550-lost-chickpeas/) - Turmeric stains my fingers yellow,real tears adding salt that this curry doesn’t need.I replay the wordsover and over and overin my head—they rollaround like chickpeas on the floor. There are traces of you in this kitchenif you know where to look—cloves I
- [Too Soon Tanka](https://www.takahe.org.nz/too-soon-tanka/) - 1. sleep found me last nightsoaked in slumber depths of blackit didn’t warn meof the dull ache on wakingor the fate of the harsh sun 2. strobe glare of morningtightened eyes stretching with squintmirrors my bellylife inside still there and yetnot the same as yesterday 3. noon light is unsureringtone wait with steady breathcome and
- [half a hāngī heart](https://www.takahe.org.nz/half-a-hangi-heart/) - i grew up surrounded by the two shades that make up me brown and cream mixed together, the cultures b…l…e…n…d i l u t reduce. until what’s left? to some i am Pākehā grew up in a household with narrow noses, pink cheeks, light hair but what about the other part? biological disregard handed me
- [Rite of Passage](https://www.takahe.org.nz/rite-of-passage/) - you thought age would make you imperviousto everything, that dimmer lightwould give you an alluring profile,or heartache would help youwrite better poems. not gifted in metaphor, I thoughtyou looked like a postcard from the side:something inviting but impersonalabout that tucked-in chin,the high sweep of your cheekbones like a proud-winged bird. I remember youstanding in my
- [I stand](https://www.takahe.org.nz/i-stand/) - I thought I stood among giantsBut some of them were snakesCold to my vulnerabilityI’m more potoroo than python I do not hiss, I scurryI do not fight, I run I thought I was not worthyAs I am no giantIn their presence I felt meekI’m more a pleaser than a wheeler-dealer I do not shout, I
- [Dear Lorraine](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dear-lorraine/) - I found one of your letters, the guidelines on the airmail-ruled Croxley pad ignored. ‘I am woman hear me ROAR’defied the narrow, pale blue corridors. Words I wanted my mother to say, but she couldn’t. You could. Thank God you could. My mother only yelled at me from my lounge,‘Remember Lorraine? She’s dead.’ What she really meant
- [This skin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/this-skin/) - Today I didn’t goto any of the funky cafes—organic, vegan, artisan,bike shop, plants— Craving impersonal service,urban anonymity, I cameto the chain cafe in the little mall.Sticky tables, eggy smell, and looksfrom local matrons. My mother’s remembered voicesays Well, you willgo around lookinglike that— But it’s this skin I feel happy in.Yesterday on the swim-with-dolphins boata
- [Visiting the Sick](https://www.takahe.org.nz/visiting-the-sick/) - We head north in a great March,Travellers in a Coke can,Leaning forward on the Kilmog,Reclining on the plain,Gauging how far?How far now?How far again. I tell of yesteryear’s cars:The Mirage and the Gemini,The Starlet with sheep damage.Heavy, bronze and frosted,Ancestral vehicles:Our lineageIn the garage. Why are cars stellar, cosmic,But shuttles named for the gods?Launched into
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems/) - By the Sheep Gate Are these the lame, blind, infirm and withered who’ve flung off motel towelling robes, slid their complimentary slippers under the loungers? (Holy ground—they know it.) Does an angel stir the waters? And creation’s primal call: is that deep’s talk to deep I catch in every drop of utter blue babbling through the pool? Each molecule
- [Dream Home](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dream-home/) - If my heart were lassoed by some beautiful woman whose pockets were lined with immense wealth, and she tried to drag it back to the wealthy suburb of Illinois where she was born and raised, I would grimace, resist, plead that my heart only beats in the city, defibrillated each morning in the vibrations of
- [Heat Death of the Internet](https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/) - You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring
- [Mantou (馒头)](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mantou-馒头/) - I typically avoid hard foods. These mantou are under-fermented: as if someone has poked a white ball with a needle, leaving it pockmarked and deflated. Biting into it might be tough, without the softness I prefer, but I don’t want to try. This results from my inexperience—uncertain about the right amount of water to add.
- [Baby Flesh](https://www.takahe.org.nz/baby-flesh/) - When you see your ex with a baby strapped onto him for the first time, don’t act surprised. Even though you haven’t seen him in years, obviously, and you’ve just bumped into him outside the cafe where you both used to sit with your laptops, attempting to study, but too distracted by each other, legs
- [The Next Prank](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-next-prank/) - Tommy threw an inflatable inner tube and rope into the boot of the Holden, on top of the crate. The bottles clattered together. It was Saturday. We had all finished work for the morning and were heading up the back of Lake Tekapo, to the canals, to camp out. ‘What’s that for,’ asked Jed, ‘you
- [Preparations](https://www.takahe.org.nz/preparations/) - She gripped the stainless-steel handrail and planted her feet wide apart, stabilizing herself as the tram traveled over the uneven tracks. With her other hand, she shook her wet umbrella, adding a layer of moisture to the already damp floor. The tram came to a halt and its mechanical doors swung open to a flock
- [Pink Sugar–an ode to queer femininity](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pink-sugar-an-ode-to-queer-femininity-2/) - I recently bought a Pink Sugar perfume dupe online. The bottle has a white label with looping writing across its front, nauseatingly pink cotton candy liquid sloshing inside. I wear it almost every day, as some return to my 10-year-old self: bright red hair extensions, shimmery lips from dollar-store lip gloss, Hello Kitty keychain dangling
- [When Capitalism Is the Perfect Metaphor for a Debilitating Chronic Illness You Know the System Is Fucked](https://www.takahe.org.nz/when-capitalism-is-the-perfect-metaphor-for-a-debilitating-chronic-illness-you-know-the-system-is-fucked/) - So you go into a shop.I don’t know what the façade looks like and it doesn’t make a difference.You would go in even if it was dilapidated,maybe it is,most days it is. So you go into the shop,and the shelves are lined with everything,all carefully catalogued,prices clearly visible.You are the only customer. So you are
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-bob-hicok/) - An exact record of what happened after I typed the word I I set out to build a shed but ended up with a boat.Went for a cheeseburger but came home with a tattooof Sidney Poitier listening to Édith Piaf. I meantto be afraid of the dark and I am afraid of the darkbut only
- [Plastic Plates](https://www.takahe.org.nz/plastic-plates/) - On the wall, photos of when I was a boy, a postcard from Greece, a calendar.Mum tells me she is happy, then turnsaway. Rain falls heavy. When Medea killed her two sons,she knew what she was doing.Mum has read a lot of books, butI don’t think she’s read Medea, or knows that an earlier version of
- [What Kind of Miracles](https://www.takahe.org.nz/what-kind-of-miracles/) - I want to believe in miracles I say, spilling sad energy everywhere but all the birds are fighting over wet bread in the parking lot What kind of miracles? You ask, dutifully The kind that escapes like smoke the moment you notice it Leaving the air stuffy with expectation, a shortness of breath And maybe
- [Kawekawe kōrero](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kawekawe-korero/) - Kawekawe kōrero Ko tā te ngutu he whakahua kauMā ngā tini kawekawe ia te toro atu,Rongo ai, whakaaro ai Toro mai rā e ngā kāwai Kawea mai te kupu Tāmoea nei au i āu kōrero Whātero mai i ōu arero tini, — Ko ēnā iaia mōnehu Kare tīwheta mai ki au, Kōwirihia raunatia ai Me
- [Dumb Luck](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dumb-luck/) - There was a long haul in the middlewhere the tracks faded into dust.I was out there for some time.When I got back nothing seemed to fit.The worst part was becoming angry.I lost myself in there.At least the illusion of myself.I grew envious of thosewho possessed what seemedeasy comfort, from a distance.Like a child I grieved.I
- [Te Rā: The Māori Sail](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tera/) - Te Rā: The Māori Sail, by Ariana Tikao and Mat Tait. Christchurch Art Gallery (2023). RRP: $26.50. HB: 36pp. ISBN: 9781877375811. Reviewed by Kirsty Dunn. '…Let us bring in the fishers, the warriors, the weavers,the healers, the connectors, the dreamers. Let us bring back in all those who have become stray strands,weave them in, weave them
- [Tsunami](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tsunami/) - Tsunami by Ned Wenlock. Earth’s End Publishing (2023). RRP: $27.99. PB, 278pp. ISBN: 9780473655679, Reviewed by Matt Scowcroft. I’m a bit of an art masochist. I want to be hurt by the books I read, and I often find stories in which everything is alright in the end unsatisfying. I don’t think that is unusual —
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/109editorial/) - Tēnā koutou katoa We know how busy December gets for many people, so the takahē team has worked hard to bring you our 109th issue early in the month. We’re sure you’ll find plenty inside from our contributors to challenge, delight, and move you, and hope takahē will find a special spot in your summer
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-elliot-mckenzie/) - Seal on the field We walked the dog down the roadto the bus stop and started alongthe path to Martin Wilson field.Something barked loudly at us.A dark shape, lying in the bushes.A seal! We called the DOC number.Press 1 for seal sightings. Leave the sealalone and let nature take its course.I took photos on my
- [Birdspeak](https://www.takahe.org.nz/birdspeak/) - Birdspeak by Arihia Latham. Anahera Press (2023). RRP: $25.00. PB, 100pp. ISBN: 9780473678524. Reviewed by Isla Huia. The most recent release from Anahera Press, Birdspeak, is Arihia Latham’s debut collection of poetry. Speaking through the generations of her tīpuna in their home of Te Wai Pounamu, to the present day in the lives of her closest
- [Hoof](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hoof/) - Hoof by Kerrin P. Sharpe. THWUP (2023). RRP: $25.00. PB, 96pp. ISBN: 9781776921225. Reviewed by S. J. Mannion. Kerrin P. Sharpe certainly lives up to her surname here, her poetry has the kind of clarity that bites… and though you’re never quite sure where you’ve been bitten, still you feel the teeth marks throb. Hmm, an extended
- [Saga](https://www.takahe.org.nz/saga/) - Saga by Hannah Mettner. THWUP (2023). RRP: $25. HB, 88pp. ISBN: 9781776921157. Reviewed by Vera Hua Dong. Hannah Mettner’s Saga offers a full-bodied subterranean vehemence, and profound social commentary and thought, inspired by her personal observations and sensibility. She delivers deep reflections without reserve on matters of importance to her. And she is not afraid
- [End Times](https://www.takahe.org.nz/endtimes/) - End Times by Rebecca Priestley. THWUP (2023). RRP: $35.00. PB, 240pp. ISBN: 9781776921188. Reviewed by Hester Ullyart. Dedicated to ‘Maz, my BFF’, End Times is based upon a week-long real-life West Coast road trip in 2021, mapping anxiety, formative teenage years, and rocks—metaphorical and literal. It would make an awesome female-gaze-scientist-post-kids buddy movie. You heard
- [Hannah & Huia](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hannahhuia/) - Hannah and Huia by Charlotte Lobb. Quentin Wilson Publishing (2023). RRP: $37.50. PB, 240pp. ISBN: 9781991103109. Reviewed by Rebecca Styles. In the author's note to Charlotte Lobb's debut novel, she explains her own challenges with the 'discomfort of owning and accepting my own battles with depression, anxiety, PTSD and worse' (p.238). While the novel is
- [Talia](https://www.takahe.org.nz/talia/) - Talia by Isla Huia. Dead Bird Books (2023). RRP: $30.00. PB, 87pp. ISBN: 9781991150639. Reviewed by Ariana Tikao. Talia is Isla Huia’s (Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku) debut poetry collection published by the Auckland-based indie publisher Dead Bird Books. It consists of 35 poems full of pūrākau, of fascinating images, of our atua Māori, and people – alive
- [Artists in Antartica](https://www.takahe.org.nz/artistsinantarctica/) - Artists in Antarctica edited by Patrick Shepherd. MUP (2023). RRP: $80. HB, 240pp. ISBN: 9781991016270. Reviewed by James Norcliffe. I couldn’t help but gather adjectives from the first few pages of this handsome book: brutal, fearsome, desolate, hostile, extreme, unforgiving, bleak, inhospitable, unpredictable, forbidding… There is in fact a thesaurus load of such adjectives to describe
- [Tung](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tung/) - Tung by Robyn Maree Pickens. OUP (2023). RRP: $25.00. PB, 87pp. ISBN: 9781990048609. Reviewed by Michelle Elvy. Robyn Maree Pickens is an art writer, poet, curator, and text-based practitioner, all of which is evident in her debut poetry collection. Tung opens with an invitation, a weaving of words and wonder on the page: Brush the
- [Tongariro National Park](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tongarironationalpark/) - Tongariro National Park: an artist's field guide, by Desmond Bovey. Craig Potton (2023). RRP $39.99. PB, 200pp. ISBN 9781988550510. Reviewed by Andrew Paul Wood. It might be argued that our national parks are already works of art in their own right. In that respect, Tongariro is one of the most beautiful. Artist Desmond Bovey’s beautiful
- [Pink Sugar - an ode to queer femininity](https://www.takahe.org.nz/pink-sugar-an-ode-to-queer-femininity/)
- [Acquiescence](https://www.takahe.org.nz/acquiescence/) - Nadia sips her coffee and gazes out at the steely grey morning. She glances at her phone one last, depressing time. ‘Wildfires in Rhodes as well,’ she says. ‘Dubrovnik. Southern Italy. Northern Algeria. The whole Mediterranean is on fire.’ Across the table, Lloyd shakes his head, pushes the sleeves of his faded sweatshirt above
- [You, Plural](https://www.takahe.org.nz/you-plural/) - You start the car and drive slowly, carefully. It is something-very-late-o’clock, you think. But, she is pregnant, and she needs—she says she needs—ice cream and pickled beetroot. You’re tired, but you’re a good person, you think, and anyway, when the baby is here, this time of day will be normal, won’t it? There is a
- [Sound of solace](https://www.takahe.org.nz/sound-of-solace/) - Newly solo at 30, I move into a one-bedroom unit. There’s a connecting wall with another apartment. First night I notice it, then it continues on and on, the neighbour’s radio is on 24/7. Finally, I knock on their door to complain. A woman, maybe 20 or 22, invites me in to apologise. She’s in
- [Shui Gui](https://www.takahe.org.nz/shui-gui/) - If Val could’ve been anyone, she would’ve been Anya. On the first day Val met her, seated next to each other by luck of the alphabet—Langford, then Liu—Anya had shaken her hand. It was a firm grip, one of old money and future expectations. Val had squirmed in her second-hand uniform and hoped that Anya
- [Please accept this as my notice of resignation](https://www.takahe.org.nz/please-accept-this-as-my-notice-of-resignation/) - When you get the job, everybody tells you that you are doing so well. You did it! On your first day, you are led around the open-plan office and everybody introduces themselves. The fifteen names roll around in your head like marbles, and they give you some papers to file. You flit around the shelves,
- [Thursday](https://www.takahe.org.nz/thursday/) - Chris says that making these calls, the same ones every day, has made him lose track of time. ‘Is it Friday?’ he will say. ‘Feels like a Friday.’ I tell him like I do every week that, ‘No, it’s Thursday.’ Gene eats the same meal at his desk without fail at 1pm. And Chris asks,
- [Payment to the Ferryman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/payment-to-the-ferryman/) - It had probably started when they saw the golden bird hanging in the sunset over Manukau. Hovering like a fantail, but so much bigger. It was full of people who would never know how magnificent it looked. The cars would surely have been tiny black metallic ants below them, glinting yellow in the light of
- [Love Handles](https://www.takahe.org.nz/love-handles/) - It was around census time that he decided to take things into his own hands. Change the situation for good. He’d cleared the kitchen table after tea one night and was stooped over the purple form, staring at it, tormented by the very first question. The cat hopped onto the table, feigning support. Here we
- [The Nazi](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-nazi/) - Everyone has places they don’t dare go. When we were kids, one of those places was Mr. Dombrinski’s yard. He was our neighbour across a low, wooden, stockade fence. Sometimes an unlucky bounce or an errant kick would sail a ball over that fence into his yard. ‘Go get it!’ someone would yell at the
- [Grass](https://www.takahe.org.nz/grass/) - We decide to go up the hill on an autumn evening. It’s your idea—you want to watch the sunset, and I’m always happy to go along with your ideas. The climb is steep, and we are both sweaty and puffing when we reach the top. The sun is still sitting above the horizon. I feel
- [A Dusty, Poorly-Lighted Place](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-dusty-poorly-lighted-place/) - He cuts into his steak. It’s rare. He told me in the car that he’d asked around and this was how everyone told him to have it. There’s no point having it any other way, they’d said—it’s got to be bleeding a bit. ‘Are you really only having chips?’ he asks. ‘They don’t do anything
- [Six Poems by James Brown](https://www.takahe.org.nz/six-poems-by-james-brown/) - Tagging I caught monarch butterflies in my net.Then carefully held open their wings and folded a small white sticker overthe leading edge. I’d written JB on it. I’d wanted to put more—an address,a date—but that was all that would fit. It didn’t seem to affect the butterflies.Released, they flapped erratically away over backyard science and
- [prayer and prey](https://www.takahe.org.nz/prayer-and-prey/) - the dark park rankles with hoariness ancient pockets of omnipotence watch youclamber through the gates of treeswith fresh regret & equal determination the cruising spot tinkles with lightas you approach the weathered forms gatheredconstellations of eyes glow before you‘be not afraid,’ rumbles forth as you get on your knees the blasphemy of your body becomes sacredas
- [Bright Blue](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bright-blue/) - There is a crowdsmall but growinglooking out to sea despite the stormI walk overcollar up, head down people pointsome are shoutingothers look away I follow the fingerssee nothing but the waveswild and heaving a man, talking on the phoneruns his fingersthrough his hair I look againout to seanothing, nothing somethinga piece of wooda strip of
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-bronte-heron/) - Dirt A group of workmen sit on the street staring up at the slate being thrown from the rooftop. They fly in, they’re the flying kind, they like to group together on the floor. I write a shopping list while I wait for my student to arrive, snake a long line up the margin. The
- [Cobalt](https://www.takahe.org.nz/cobalt/) - on the hill the powerlineshook the sky down on me i think, that blue isn’t humanor machine can it feel the punctureof us keeping the lights on? can it see the interfacebetween me and the cows? i think, my sister told me,we’ve never really touched— that our atoms keep anopening between them and it must
- [A Skyline Slaughtered](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-skyline-slaughtered/) - At the top of the stairs mama hums to the beatof the smoke invading the western horizon. An essayistwrites on the commodification of movement, and theradio recites names of planes eaten alive. What are weto do with all this leftover future? In the East, a grandfather sings to the prairiecrocus. Smoke coughs into the breeze,
- [My Mate Julie](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-mate-julie/) - My mate Julie /hurricanes down Worcester Street /cycling for leisure /shouting at men for pleasure /on her way to Alice’s /on her way to play /furious games of Scrabble / My mate Julie likes to argue /with people she has known for years /and when someone has done you wrong /My mate Julie /will remind
- [schizoaffective in spring](https://www.takahe.org.nz/schizoaffective-in-spring/) - They are just hedgingtheir bets, these skeletonsdressed in skin, and falsepromiseswho look into your headwith nothing but thecavitieswhere eyes should sit. First they tell you you arethe wasted stamp on adead letter, the flick of ashfrom a menthol cigarette,a droplet of semen fromthe ground beneaththe gallows. Then they say you arethe rattle of matches, astingray’s
- [Two Poems](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-ruben-mita/) - Antipode You went to Big Riverand then you went to Mount Emptyand you went to Valladolidand put flowers in the ground. I waited in Newtown.I took my time, not waiting too hard,finished humanity’s smaller projects,crossed off things in a red notebook. But the apocalypse never gained momentum,because you went to Valladolidand put flowers in the
- [Help my boy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/help-my-boy/) - Help him. Help him, the woman says. I cannot bear it.What happened?He was coming to see me. A tire blew out.A new tire. A steel radial tire. Oh please.Please save my boy. Get him out.But this is a tombstone, I say.It is a grave.Can you not hear him scream? the woman cries.She tears at granite
- [he mōteatea mō Witi](https://www.takahe.org.nz/he-moteatea-mo-witi/) - whanganui, ōtepoti, whakatū,i kite tātou i a Witi,me āna kōrero,āna waiata,āna paki. whanganui, ōtepoti, whakatū,i kite tātou i a Witi,tēnei tōtara haematame tana pōtae kōhure,tana koti parāone,tāna memene. tēnei tōtara haematame mārohirohii ngā wā katoa.i mua,i muri:te kaituhi mātāreremō āke tonu atu. [English language 'translation' a mōteatea for Witi (Ihimaera) whanganui, dunedin, nelson.we saw
- [Troubles](https://www.takahe.org.nz/troubles/) - It was the year of the caved-in ceiling.Water ran through everything and brought down the attic with it.Everyone was sure that the rain would have to stop one of these days,and still it sluiced down, right through the roofand the duvetsand finally into the carpetleaving a dark smell that never left and a stainso symmetrical
- [Fairy Bower](https://www.takahe.org.nz/fairy-bower/) - i. We, our family—Joe, baby, kelpie, me—live on the rain-wrestling smudges to Sydney’s west,Gundungurra and Dharug country Our house, a sweaty pram push from Gargaree,that sacred gully stamped with a mile-long loop of racing bitumen Our kelpie likes to run the loop, mark greens creeping up to light dystopian cracks,chase squawky boys circling:sulphur-crested snow flurries that drift
- [Ao Legends](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ao-legends/) - A selection of three pages from the larger work, Ao Legends. Pita Mei has been an artist for most of his life, working on projects all across the country and abroad. Ao Legends debuts as his first independent project, reimagining some of the most famous stories of Hawaiki, Aotearoa and the South Pacific through a
- [The Art of Michael Armstrong](https://www.takahe.org.nz/michael-armstrong/) - By Andrew Paul Wood Michael Armstrong was born in Christchurch in 1954 and has regularly exhibited since 1969. He graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1976. He lives in Timaru in South Canterbury and had a lengthy career as an art tutor at Aoraki Polytechnic, later Ara Institute. He was
- [Hannah and Huia](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hannah-and-huia/)
- [Iris and Me](https://www.takahe.org.nz/iris-and-me/) - Iris and Me by Philippa Werry. The Cuba Press (Ahoy! Imprint). RRP: $25.00. Pb, 182 pp. ISBN: 9781991950844. Reviewed by S J Mannion In the interests of honesty and transparency, and to guard against any accusations to the contrary, I hereby own, ‘YES, I absolutely loved this book,’ and NO, the author is not a friend
- [Mango Butter](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mango-butter/) - It was only February, night flowers still out, that she’d last pushed into trainers that didn’t need lacing. Escape had meant running from the neighbourhood of packed-in, tucked-up houses and bowed street lights. Past the dairy, the bus stops, well past any capacity she had imagined until, hours later, the yolk of morning broke on
- [Decreation](https://www.takahe.org.nz/decreation/) - 1. sometimes i think my name was given to me, in open upturned palms, as a blank slate.who is tremendous. a beautiful and fleeting glimpse of a world so slight before it is already taken away from you.beautiful girls in muslin dresses I can’t believe I have to keep feeding this body til I die
- [Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/108editorial/) - Tēnā koutou katoa Welcome to the August issue of takahē! This issue has been a work in progress as we embrace a digital approach, but our writers are as amazing as ever, and the contents brimful of energy and growth—so appropriate for an issue born on the edge of spring. The leadership and mahi of
- [Going Dutch](https://www.takahe.org.nz/going-dutch/) - “What about me seems Dutch?” I asked my husband, thinking he'd say something like 'you’re a hard worker’ or ‘fairness is important to you’ or ‘you’re an innovator’. He thought for a moment. “Well, you’re quite tall,” he said. Another thought came to him. “And you like cheese.” * I have an indistinct memory of a
- [Resolution](https://www.takahe.org.nz/resolution/) - Short fiction by Rowan Bishop
- [Aquamarine](https://www.takahe.org.nz/aquamarine/) - Sometimes it seemed as if Eugene was bigger than his body. When he swept his wings past the shelves in the lounge, books fell to the floor and startled him. When he chuff-chuffed around the dining table, his foot caught on a chair leg and sent him sprawling. Sometimes, burning round the racetrack from the
- [Stone Fruits](https://www.takahe.org.nz/stone-fruits/) - The first time she slipped into your mouth, she was passing you a plum stone to swallow. Only after she’d stripped the flesh, of course. Fingertips on your tongue, tilt your head back and swallow. You have to remember, she’d said as though she had any idea how it felt, it’s always easier to get
- [Moult](https://www.takahe.org.nz/moult/) - Cleaning day on the 115th. From the observation window the crickets look like brown beads. Two farmers shake them from their old containers and they crawl over each other to get the grain, grown under lamps upstairs and scattered in fresh, clean boxes. I press my ear to the observation window, hoping to hear their
- [What My Mother Said to the Gunman in the Vegetable Aisle at Pak’N’Save](https://www.takahe.org.nz/what-my-mother-said-to-the-gunman-in-the-vegetable-aisle-at-paknsave/) - Since my mother no longer rode her bike over the big railway bridge, her scarf coming loose in the billowing smoke, and since she no longer got to Funky Pumpkin running her hands over the big bins of kumara, since she was in fact at Pak’N’Save on a Tuesday afternoon at 2pm eyeing up the
- [Bindweed](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bindweed/) - [Content warning: maternal mental health] It’s been so many years, now, that sometimes Gina doesn’t fully clock what month it is, until the dream returns. It cycles back like a weather pattern, a relapse. In the dream, she has left a small baby out on a summery back lawn. The daisy-starred grass soon swoops with
- [Memory Parlour](https://www.takahe.org.nz/memory-parlour/) - 1 Down South Lane, tucked away behind Oxford Street, was Jenny’s memory parlour. A remorseless stream of traffic cut through Levin down State Highway 1, beating it into place — lest it slink off when no-one was looking. Few of these travellers ever made it the short hop over to South Lane, though. As the
- [The Sandwitch](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-sandwitch/) - Yesterday, my mother and I sat down to a typical Fijian breakfast of buns and milky tea. A fruit bat, screaming the joys of eating a pawpaw outside my window, had kept me up for half the night. So, it was with tired anticipation that I packed a backpack for a half day cruise leaving
- [Trouble In Paradise](https://www.takahe.org.nz/trouble-in-paradise/) - Bella calls out “where are you going?” as I run downstairs to the lounge and snatch my phone. I pause for a moment. Faint blue light is slipping into our dark flat. This house is a prison, Bella always says, but some of my favorite and most ridiculous memories have happened here. I realise with
- [Industrial Camouflage [The Chaos of Hope]](https://www.takahe.org.nz/industrial-camouflage-the-chaos-of-hope/) - By Claire Chamberlain Sefton Rani describes himself as a maker who uses paint as his material of choice to create contemporary Pacific art. Rani produces work that exists outside hackneyed tropes of palm tree-fringed sunsets or other touristic motifs, yet still holds strong connection with the art, history and spirituality of the southernmost of the
- [Letter to ’Oumuamua](https://www.takahe.org.nz/letter-to-oumuamua/) - Letter to ’Oumuamua by James Norcliffe. OUP (2023) RRP: $25.00. Pb, 96 pp. ISBN 9781990048517. Reviewed by Ray Shipley ‘Oumuamua, Norcliffe tells us in his notes of his 11th collection of poetry, was the name given to the first interstellar object to pass through our solar system, first detected in 2017. Asteroid, comet, or perhaps
- [Āria](https://www.takahe.org.nz/aria/) - Āria by Jessica Hinerangi. AUP (2023). RRP: $35.00. Pb, 86pp. ISBN: 9781991154149. Reviewed by Māia Te Whetū Luminous and dripping in indigenous wisdom, this debut collection of poetry written by Jessica Hinerangi arrives with an extended hand, promising to hold close as her words move us through many waters. ‘Put your head under’ (p.59), she
- [BITER](https://www.takahe.org.nz/biter/) - BITER by Claudia Jardine. AUP (2023). RRP: $24.99. Pb, 76 pp. ISBN: 9781776711017. Reviewed by Andi C. Buchanan. About halfway through her debut collection, Biter, Claudia Jardine opens a poem with: My father has several university degreesbut none of them prepared himfor opening a block of cheese. ('Thoughts Thought After Surveying the Contents of the Fridge, p.
- [Sea Skins](https://www.takahe.org.nz/sea-skins/) - Sea Skins by Sophia Wilson. Flying Islands Books/Cerberus Press (2023). RRP: $10.00 AUD. Pocket pb, 108 pp. ISBN: 978064550320. Reviewed by S J Mannion. I found myself mouthing the lines many times as I read this pukapuka. A finely scored collection, it seems to me an operetta of sorts, though one with some serious grace notes.
- [How to Loiter in a Turf War](https://www.takahe.org.nz/how-to-loiter-in-a-turf-war/) - How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid. Penguin Books (2022). RRP: $28.00. Pb, 176 pp. ISBN: 9780143778585. Reviewed by Sarah Maindonald ‘Ko te mea tuatahi he mihi aroha ki te whaea o Te Hoia, ngā mihi, ngā mihi, ngā mihi.’ To lose a child, I’ve always thought, would take away your will to
- [The Artist](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-artist/) - The Artist by Ruby Solly. THWUP (2023). RRP: $30.00. Pb, 142 pp. ISBN: 9781776920709. Reviewed by Isla Martin Ruby Solly’s The Artist is a truth, a history, and a pakiwaitara all at once. Infused with kōrero tuku iho and mātauranga Māori, it tells a tale of Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Waitaha that picks us up
- [Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts](https://www.takahe.org.nz/everything-is-beautiful-and-everything-hurts/) - Everything is beautiful and everything hurts by Josie Shapiro. Allen & Unwin (2023). RRP: $36.99. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-1-991006-44-8. Reviewed by Rebecca Styles. The closest I get to running is tripping over my partner's sneakers. I’ve also waited while his depleted body crossed the finish line of an ultra-marathon. It seems such a punishing way
- [Dream Girl](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dream-girl/) - Dream Girl by Joy Holley. Te Herenga Waka University Press (2023). RRP: $30.00. PB, 236pp. ISBN: 9781776920846. Reviewed by Naomi Mary Smith. When I was a kid there weren’t many lollies available at the cinema. Or maybe there were? But I only ever had eyes for tangy fruits. Much more than a sweet, each little ball
- [Calamities!](https://www.takahe.org.nz/calamities/) - Calamities! by Jane Arthur. THWUP (2023). RRP: $25.00. Pb, 72 pp. ISBN: 9781776920723. Reviewed by Hester Ullyart There is an unapologetic doom cloud running though this collection. Split into three sections, RISK ASSESSMENT, THE BEAR and HIGHLY FLAMMABLE, it is a poetry/prose/poetry triple decker charcoal sandwich that opens with: ‘This apocalypse is more boring/than Hollywood has
- [A Bloody Difficult Subject: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-bloody-difficult-subject-ruth-ross-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-and-the-making-of-history/) - A Bloody Difficult Subject: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History by Bain Attwood. AUP (2023). RRP: $59.99. HB, 320 pp. ISBN: 9781869409821. Reviewed by Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) Te Tiriti o Waitangi: a bloody difficult subject? It seems yes, according to Bain Attwood and his historical muse, Ruth Ross. After
- [Collecting koha from the finance department](https://www.takahe.org.nz/collecting-koha-from-the-finance-department/) - 1. fight your imposter and repeat the mantra: you’re meant to be here, you’re allowed to be here 2. write the cards using your reobe sure to google your tohutōeven though you already know where they rest. . . or do you 3. over explainhow it wasn’t this easy last timeto recognise tuakanatheir mātaurangayour mātaurangain
- [Two Poems by Bree Huntley](https://www.takahe.org.nz/two-poems-by-bree-huntley/) - A Revelation Which before you can comprehend itResolves into a commonplace: all is vanity,Say, or suffering . . . Unhappy, the realizationThat the truth has outmanoeuvredDull you, Like a party that spilled intoThe street while you were in the kitchenRefreshing the punch, Making you surplusTo requirements, but not freeing youOf responsibility. The Bridge We had
- [Poems by Rebecca Hawkes](https://www.takahe.org.nz/poems-by-rebecca-hawkes/) - Callow Country with Indoor Bloodsuckers After Joanna Margaret Paul, Barrys Bay: Interior with Bed and Doll (1974), oil and watercolour on paper and hardboard Boy, this one’s a scorcher. The whole landscape prowls, panting, just beyond the front gate. In the maw of your mangy peninsulathe horses mow down scuffed-up grasses—browntop and cocksfoot—and rub their matted
- [The Other Beach](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-other-beach/) - This corner, a cliff’sfogged cellar forged in monochrome—quarried down to the obdurate growlof waterstones— trundles overand back its basalt cannon balls, ballastfor its sunken hold. And no matter howthey grade the track, fence off the rankoverweeded gaps, it chills, like a placeyou might come to drown a mewling sack. Megan Kitching is an Ōtepoti Dunedin
- [Poems by Eliana Gray](https://www.takahe.org.nz/poems-by-eliana-gray/) - Starting the morning at St Kilda Green brown scumon the chevron sandthreading the edgeof the waves I hope it’s decomposing kelpand not the wastewater housedown the coastI swim anywayand never google itwhen I get home My friend tells me about surfingoff the left end of Smailsand getting an ear infection Pipes sputter into the harbourslick
- [consume](https://www.takahe.org.nz/consume/) - like flowers: like the soft wet mouth of a bloom: like a noxious weedweeping onion spit into your hand: like an overgrown puffball screaming outits last, sad, spore-filled breath: like a cat clamping down on blue-greentail feathers: a stoat feasting on the delicate orange of a native egg: yolk spilling outall over its fur: congealing: like a fly bloated with
- [re-living Zhongdian](https://www.takahe.org.nz/re-living-zhongdian/) - Physically whimpering, shaking-it-off then turning away to cover your eyes. A bear-dog stillrag-dolls a scrappy puppy-bitch in its dribbling jaws. Reacting late, I cried ‘don’t look,’ shepherding you down a roughly-cobbled lane, in a re-sampled version of a Chinese town to a bar where someone played Muse’s live version ofNina’s Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’. Although not
- [Week 3: Sunburn kisses](https://www.takahe.org.nz/week-3-sunburn-kisses/) - Spidery crawl of deep scratchesStitching the landscape of fleshMend the planes together, smoothMoulded playdoughPrepubescent enamelRubbery skinInside peeled off fish batterWhite and swollen Raw and rubbingTight peach coloured microporeWrinkled chafing skinThe puckered red crayon scribble across your heartStings like sand sliding against sunburnDanger wobble like aJelly Tip at the beach Colourless linesWaiting for the felt tip
- [Reception Down](https://www.takahe.org.nz/reception-down/) - untamed dark airflowing across the night windowsrippling into the mouthof our rumbling heat-pumpthat labours to filter outthe scent of iceon hedgehog spikethe musk of windon frozen reedsthe taste of steamrising like a balletfrom the dark waterswhile we wander dreamingthe atmosphere is sweptof outliersof irregularitiesof bristling pheromonesfloating like sea minesdeleted messagestrying to reach us Chris Parsons
- [Bones – Panirau](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bones-panirau/) - It’s an up-risingIt’s a down-fallingIt’s layers and layers and layers Of soilOf concreteOf pain and lossOf searching and wonderingOf saying ‘this is our tūrangawaewae’Of blank stares, of disbelief, of eye rolls,‘ka pai, that’s what you say’ It’s not so much what I sayIt’s what isIt’s what we’ve knownIt’s what we knowIt’s the revelations that keep
- [Tissue Paper Flowers](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tissue-paper-flowers/) - Tissue paper flowers by the beddead.They have a nameI don’t know itjust call themtissue paper flowers. I bought them so I wouldn’t have tochange the dragonsnapswhen mould slithered around the stemssat bobbing in the water liketiny nordic gnomes. These were the least dead looking deadI mean driedflowers I could findbecause the petals stay pinkpurple and
- [Skin in me](https://www.takahe.org.nz/skin-in-me/) - Journaling is an act of autoerotic eviscerationSpilling my guts for my own pleasureAnd stamping around in the juices like a toddler in a puddleMy promethean navel barely heals by the morningIt weeps serous fluid and soaks my sheetsMeaning I always wake up to a damp shirt and pants The first time I slept with my
- [Lift](https://www.takahe.org.nz/lift/) - ‘I carried my mother as she carried me.’—John Campbell, ‘My Mother’ Not quite. Your funeral mass now over,undertakers paired off the family lifts;your three sons the main pallbearers(I with my brother, the tallest one). Each side of you we awkwardly manoeuvre—six foot and five six. Comedy’s dark gifts—even now I didn’t take my fair shares.
- [Bad Vegans](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bad-vegans/) - Two children sit listening to the rain.His fingers drum upon his seatbelt, she keepsChecking social media, despite getting zero bars.Grown now, they are no longer beholdenTo adults idling at the pub, or the menaceOf the one-armed bandit stealing their dinner. The rain continues downward, a thick pelt.Maneuvering out of the Skyline, they findThemselves surrounded by
- [My parents made some love and here I am](https://www.takahe.org.nz/my-parents-made-some-love-and-here-i-am/) - but there’s a lot of detail I don’t havethough I guess I could ask them but they don’tknow that I know what I know that they thinkI don’t yet know but that’s why they’re parentsand not children but on the other handthey have parents, too, though all four are deadbut that’s not my fault, I’m
- [The tulips droop, Diana](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-tulips-droop-diana/) - The tulips droop, Diana. Theywere yellow when you passedto me their slim gauze-wrappedbodies and last night they burgeonedinto burning orange, but now theylist down the neck of the vase, Diana,reaching for the floor or death.The stems have rotted, Diana, Ido not know how this happens, my friend.I pulled a bulb and it separated from itsumbilical
- [Four Poems by Tusiata Avia](https://www.takahe.org.nz/four-poems-by-tusiata-avia/) - 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
- [EVAR](https://www.takahe.org.nz/evar/) - I met a man tonightwho was tryingto diebut didn’trealise the seriousnessof his position— supine, the mountainof his middlecountry rising smoothand round,lava seethingunderneath would leave himboxed and coldbut then, when openedup, they stuffedthat magma backwithin its cone and triumphant,as his woundswere stitchedI told him he wouldget homeand still had time so he shook his heada little
- [The Excursion](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-excursion/) - On that first morning we found something left for us on the cabin’s steps; a small pink glove of a thing, curling on itself in the morning sun. Some private part or organ, not meant for seeing—ex, one might say, formerly, out of, or disembodied. For the next three days the burning Foehn ripped through
- [Kairākau](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kairakau/) - Kairākau is a comic adaptation of the TV series with the same name. This story is of Ngāti Pikiao legend, Haukeka, and his dark journey to protect his tribe. Dan Taua is a Māori/Pākehā illustrator living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Visit dantaua.com to see more art.
- [Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tauho-by-kotuku-titihuia-nuttal/) - Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall. THWUP (2022). RRP: $30.00. Pb, 168 pp. ISBN: 9781776920259 Reviewed by Isla Reeves Martin. Tauhou, by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall is a refreshing tale of cultural dissonance, connection, and indigeneity. In an imagined reality in which the author’s two cultures, Māori and Coast Salish, find themselves aligned in geography and experience, the reader is
- [Shared Histories by John Tane Christaller.](https://www.takahe.org.nz/shared-histories-by-john-tane-christaller/) - Shared Histories by John Tane Christaller. The Cuba Press (2022). RRP: $30.00. Pb, 50 pp. ISBN: 9781988595597. Reviewed by: Sarah Maindonald. When I first perused this collection, I was hopeful. It seemed a noble task to try and capture our ‘shared histories’ and give profile to some of the most tragic and sacred sites in Aotearoa. In Christeller’s slim but
- [Te Wehenga –The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku na Mat Tait](https://www.takahe.org.nz/te-wehenga-the-separation-of-ranginui-and-papatuanuku-na-mat-tait/) - Te Wehenga –The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku na Mat Tait. Allen & Unwin NZ (2022). RRP: $36.99. Hb, 60 pp. ISBN: 9781988547664. Reviewed by S J Mannion. Te Wehenga The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku is Mat Tait’s second graphic book and is a bold and beautiful thing. It opens bravely with a karakia, to clear
- [Threads by Karen Zelas  Reviewed by Hester Ullyart](https://www.takahe.org.nz/threads-by-karen-zelas-reviewed-by-hester-ullyart/) - 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 –
- [Kōhine by Colleen Maria Lenihan. Huia Publishers](https://www.takahe.org.nz/kohine-by-colleen-maria-lenihan-huia-publishers/) - Kōhine by Colleen Maria Lenihan. Huia Publishers (2022). RRP: $25.00. Pb. 232 pp. ISBN: 9781775506973. Reviewed by N M Smith. Kōhine by Colleen Maria Lenihan opens with a well known Māori proverb: I will never be lost (because) I am a seed sown from Rangiātea. Like the book itself, it is beautiful, small and packed
- [Mokorua: Ngā Kōrero mō tōku moko kauae. My story of moko kauae by Ariana Tikao. ](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mokorua-nga-korero-mo-toku-moko-kauae-my-story-of-moko-kauae-by-ariana-tikau/) - Mokorua: Ngā Kōrero mō tōku moko kauae. My story of moko kauae by Ariana Tikao AUP NZ (2022). RRP: $45.00. Hb, 164 pp. ISBN: 9781869409708 Reviewed by: Siobhan Kahu Tumai. Sometimes being tangata Māori in te ao Pākehā feels like you have only half the pieces of your life's puzzle. The more you learn and grow
- [Author Interview](https://www.takahe.org.nz/author-interview-2/) - 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
- [Poems by Ash Davida Jane](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ashdavidajane/) - four poems by Ash Davida Jane, featured in takahē 105
- [Dreampunk: The Art of Maryrose Crook](https://www.takahe.org.nz/dreampunk-the-art-of-maryrose-crook/) - Andrew Paul Wood writes about our takahē 105 featured artist, Maryrose Crook
- [Two Poems by Tim Jones](https://www.takahe.org.nz/timjones/) - Restraints and Bento Box, Mt Victoria, two poems by Tim Jones, featured in takahē 105
- [mr palmer says*](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mr-palmer-says/) - mr palmer says, a poem by Miriama Gemmell, featured in takahē 105
- [Book Cull](https://www.takahe.org.nz/book-cull/) - Book Cull, a poem by Kathryn Reeves, featured in takahē 105
- [Two Poems by Amanda Joshua](https://www.takahe.org.nz/amandajoshua/) - thread and Winning Hand, two poems by Amanda Joshua, featured in takahē 105
- [Two Poems by Claire Lacey](https://www.takahe.org.nz/clairelacey/) - Let’s try it, the doctor said., and You know I can’t grab your ghost apples, Taika. Two poems by Claire Lacey, featured in takahē 105
- [Two Poems by Tim Upperton](https://www.takahe.org.nz/timupperton/) - Dead Pets and Three men in a lift, two poems by Tim Upperton, featured in takahē 105
- [Titiro](https://www.takahe.org.nz/titiro/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: "Titiro" by Michelle Levy
- [Devils Trumpet](https://www.takahe.org.nz/devils-trumpet/) - Hester Ullyart reviews Devil's Trumpet by Tracey Slaughter for t105
- [The Peach Tree](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-peach-tree/) - t105's feature fiction writer Maria Samuela's short story The Peach Tree
- [Nature Walk (ASMR, Meditation, Sleep-aid)](https://www.takahe.org.nz/nature-walk-asmr-meditation-sleep-aid/) - Matthew Harris's short story "Nature Walk (ASMR, Meditation, Sleep-aid)"
- [Blackbird](https://www.takahe.org.nz/blackbird/) - Blackbird, a poem by Iona Winter, featured in takahē 105
- [Self Medicated](https://www.takahe.org.nz/self-medicated/) - Self Medicated, a poem by Melinda Szymanik, featured in takahē 105
- [#524 Instead I wait, I wait for the rain](https://www.takahe.org.nz/524-instead-i-wait-i-wait-for-the-rain/) - #524 Instead I wait, I wait for the rain, a poem by Ashlee-Ann Sneller, featured in takahē 105
- [Black Cherry Soap](https://www.takahe.org.nz/black-cherry-soap/) - Black Cherry Soap, a poem by Viv Smith, featured in takahē 105
- [Golden Age](https://www.takahe.org.nz/golden-age/) - Golden Age, a poem by Anuja Mitra, featured in takahē 105
- [For Roberto Calasso](https://www.takahe.org.nz/for-roberto-calasso/) - For Roberto Calasso, a poem by Robert McLean, , featured in takahē 105
- [yellow](https://www.takahe.org.nz/yellow/) - yellow, , a poem by Hannah Marshall, featured in takahē 105
- [Last day with the grandkids](https://www.takahe.org.nz/last-day-with-the-grandkids/) - Last day with the grandkids, a poem by Michael Fitzsimons, featured in takahē 105
- [Otago Eight Bells](https://www.takahe.org.nz/otago-eight-bells/) - Otago Eight Bells, a poem by David Eggleton, featured in takahē 105
- [Spider Night](https://www.takahe.org.nz/spider-night/) - Spider Night, a poem by Molly Crighton, featured in takahē 105
- [Fungal Jazz](https://www.takahe.org.nz/fungal-jazz/) - Fungal Jazz, a poem by Aaron Craig for t105
- [t105 Editorial](https://www.takahe.org.nz/t105-editorial/) - Editorial for t105 by Reviews Editor Sile Mannion
- [Allium](https://www.takahe.org.nz/allium/) - t105 comic "Allium" by Helena Pantsis
- [Beats of the Pa’u](https://www.takahe.org.nz/beats-of-the-pau/) - Sarah Maindonald reviews Beats of the Pa'u by Maria Samuela for t105
- [Art Feature: Maryrose Crook](https://www.takahe.org.nz/art-feature-maryrose-crook/)
- [mō taku tama and ināianei/now](https://www.takahe.org.nz/mo-taku-tama-and-inaianei-now/) - Kirsty Dunn reviews "mō taku tama" and "ināianei/now" by Vaughan Rapatahana
- [Tūnui](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tunui/) - Vaughan Rapatahana reviews Tūnui by Robert Sullivan
- [Sanctuary](https://www.takahe.org.nz/sanctuary/) - Ray Shipley reviews Sanctuary by Andi C. Buchanan
- [Rangikura](https://www.takahe.org.nz/rangikura/) - Isla Reeves reviews Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
- [Raiment: A Memoir](https://www.takahe.org.nz/raiment-a-memoir/) - Elizabeth Heritage reviews Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp
- [Grand](https://www.takahe.org.nz/grand/) - SJ Mannion reviews Grand by Noelle McCarthy
- [A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-gentle-radical-the-life-of-jeanette-fitzsimons/) - Rebecca Styles reviews "A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons" by Gareth Hughes
- [Meat Lovers](https://www.takahe.org.nz/meat-lovers/) - Jessie Neilson reviews "Meat Lovers" by Rebecca Hawkes
- [Everyone is everyone except you](https://www.takahe.org.nz/everyone-is-everyone-except-you/) - Hester Ullyart reviews "Everyone is everyone except you" by Jordan Hamel
- [Bordering on the Miraculous](https://www.takahe.org.nz/bordering-on-the-miraculous/) - Roger Boyce reviews "Bordering on Miraculous" by Lynley Edmeades and Saskia Leeks
- [Ten acceptable acts of arson: and other very short stories](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ten-acceptable-acts-of-arson-and-other-very-short-stories/) - Tim Jones reviews "Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson: and other very short stories" by Jack Remiel Cottrell for t105
- [This Time](https://www.takahe.org.nz/this-time/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: Leanne Jepson's "This Time"
- [Stick and Poke](https://www.takahe.org.nz/stick-and-poke/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: Leanne Radojkovich's "Stick and Poke"
- [Hardy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/hardy/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: Emma Neale's "Hardy"
- [Tonight's Scheduled Programming](https://www.takahe.org.nz/tonights-scheduled-programming/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: Lisa Onland's "Tonight's Scheduled Programming"
- [The Resurrection of Jo-fish](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-resurrection-of-jo-fish/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: Frankie McMillan's The Resurrection of Jo-fish
- [Matariki Girl](https://www.takahe.org.nz/matariki-girl/) - From our Matariki Short Short Story Celebration Feature: Aine Whelan-Kopa's Matariki Girl
- [Taken Time](https://www.takahe.org.nz/taken-time/) - Kim Jackway's short story Taken Time
- [The Girl Who Always Said Yes](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-girl-who-always-said-yes/) - Short story by Feby Idrus
- [Wild Milk](https://www.takahe.org.nz/wild-milk/) - Alex Skousen's short story 'Wild Milk', featured in t105
- [To My Son](https://www.takahe.org.nz/to-my-son/) - Nkhaya Paulsen-More writes a moving essay about her experience of abortion for t105.
- [More than a roof: Housing in Poems and Prose](https://www.takahe.org.nz/more-than-a-roof-housing-in-poems-and-prose/) - More than a roof: Housing in Poems and Prose edited by Adrienne Jansen, Joan Begg, Rebecca Chester, Wesley Hollis, Roman Ratcliff. Wellington: Landing Press (2021). RRP: $25.00. Pb, 222 pp. ISBN:978-0-473-58894-6. Reviewed by: S J Mannion This is a varied and timely collection by a cornucopia of creative writers and poets. There is a great variety
- [The Lobster's Tale](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-lobsters-tale/) - The Lobster’s Tale by Chris Price and with photography by Bruce Foster. Massey University Press (2021). RRP: $45. Hb, 96 pp. ISBN: 9780995137813. Reviewed by: Jana A Thea The Lobster’s Tale, written by Chris Price and with photography by Bruce Foster, is truly an interdisciplinary volume – not only between written and visual arts but
- [Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier Island](https://www.takahe.org.nz/island-notes-finding-my-plae-of-aotea-great-barrier-island/) - Island Notes: Finding my place on Aotea Great Barrier Islandwritten by Tim Higham, illustrated by Harry Higham. Wellington: Cuba press (2021). RRP: $38.00. Pb, 162 pp. ISBN: 978-1-98-859540-5. Reviewed by: M Oliver “I am not here to work on this island. It is here to work on me.” (Talking to trees, p. 134) The 'work'
- [the other side of better](https://www.takahe.org.nz/the-other-side-of-better/) - Review of the other side of better by Michelle Elvy
- [AUP New Poets 8](https://www.takahe.org.nz/aup-new-poets-8/) - AUP New Poets 8. Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha, Modi Deng. Edited and with a foreword by Anna Jackson. Auckland University Press, ISBN: 20219781869409456. RRP: $29.99. 120 pp. Review by Mary Cresswell. Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng all share a skill in moving beyond traditional poetry constraints in this collection. Each of them sustains
- [Te Kinakina: E Ngara i te Ngari](https://www.takahe.org.nz/te-kinakina-e-ngara-i-te-ngari/) - Te Kinakina: E Ngara i te Ngari: Remember where you come from, Stories from Cook Islanders in TokoroaEdited by Vaughan RapatahanaPub: Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (2021).RRP: $50.00. Pb, 182pp.ISBN: 9780473580964Reviewed by Stephanie Oberg. Te Kinakina: E Ngara I te NgariRemember who you are and where you come from. Here is the lovely thingshe saidyour
- [A Clear Dawn](https://www.takahe.org.nz/a-clear-dawn/) - A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong.Auckland: AUP(2021).RRP: $49.99. Pb, 350pp.Reviewed by Vaughan Rapatahana. A Clear Dawn is a compilation of emerging poets, story writers, and essayists. The criterion of ‘new writer’ is explained by the editors as those who ‘had no more than two
- [Goddess Muscle](https://www.takahe.org.nz/goddess-muscle/) - The Goddess Muscle by Karlo MilaHuia Pub (2020)RRP: $35. Pb, 220pp.ISBN: 9781775504009Reviewed by Sarah Maindonald. Malo e lelei, talofa Tau kē! e whaea, he mihi nunui ki a koe i tēnei mahi whakahirahira,i tēnei koha, i tēnei taonga. ‘Breathe myself home’ (Goddess Muscle Meditation, p. 208) As a fellow Pasifika poet, who is also of
- [Entanglement](https://www.takahe.org.nz/entanglement/) - Entanglement by Bryan WalpertWellington: Mākaro Press (2021)RRP: $35. Pb. 268ISBN: 978-0-9951110-8-0Reviewed by Rebecca Styles In some regards, Entanglement is a simple story about twin brothers. One twin, Daniel, gets into a fight with some local kids and is severely injured. As an adult, he lives in an assisted living home in Baltimore. The narrator, Daniel’s
- [Both Feet in Paradise](https://www.takahe.org.nz/both-feet-in-paradise/) - Both feet in paradise by Andy Southall.Wellington: The Cuba Press (2021).RRP: $32.99. Pb, 350pp.ISBN: 978 1 98 859538 2.Reviewed by Rebecca Styles. Adam’s taxi is late. He’s harried while trying to reassure himself that he has enough time to catch his flight to New Zealand. Adam has spent months in Samoa researching butterflies and is
- [Ghosts](https://www.takahe.org.nz/ghosts/) - Ghosts by Siobhan Harvey.Dunedin: OUP (2021).RRP: $27.50. Pb, 112pp.ISBN: 9781988592985.Reviewed by Mary Cresswell. However you define ghosts, they are here in abundance. Siobhan Harvey puts all her poetic skills to bear on the ghosts we carry with us, in our minds and our dwellings, in our bodies and our souls. The book is divided into
- [All Tito's Children](https://www.takahe.org.nz/all-titos-children/) - All Tito’s Children by Tim Grgec.Wellington: VUP (2021).RRP: $25. Pb, 96pp.ISBN: 9781776564286.Reviewed by Jessie Neilson. Tim Grgec’s Yugoslavian heritage is the focus of his debut poetry collection. He has masters’ degrees in English literature and creative writing from Victoria University and won the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry (2018). In All Tito’s Children, Grgec selects
- [Before You Knew My Name](https://www.takahe.org.nz/before-you-knew-my-name/) - Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz. New South Wales: Allen & Unwin (2021). RRP: $32.99. Pb, 326pp. ISBN: 978 1 76087 885 6. Reviewed by Rebecca Styles. Alice Lee is dead. But this novel isn’t a classic whodunnit. Instead, it’s a story of two women under the male gaze. Unknown to each other,
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- [Victor Billot, The Sets](https://www.takahe.org.nz/victor-billot-the-sets/) - The Sets by Victor BillotDunedin: Otago University Press (2021)RRP: $27.50, Pb, 119ppISBN: 9781988592602Reviewed by Vaughan Rapatahana Victor Billot loves words. Lots of words. Not the common garden-type spinach and cauliflower words, but the variegated esoteric, arcane, and abstruse variety, often all at once. Take for example, these lines from ‘Capricorn and Bunker’: Distant breakers crest
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- [takahē 108](https://www.takahe.org.nz/t108/) - Editorial EssayGoing Dutch: Kathryn van Beek ArtSefton Rani: Industrial Camouflage [The Chaos of Hope] ComicKairākau : Dan Taua Guest FictionBindweed: Emma Neale FictionThe Sandwitch: Anjula PrakashMemory Parlour: Blaze ForbesTrouble In Paradise: Breanna WardWhat My Mother Said to the Gunman in the Vegetable Aisle at Pak’N’Save: Frankie McMillanMango Butter: Jade du PreezMoult: Kirsteen UreStone Fruits: Malory
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- [takahē 110](https://www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-110/) - Editorial EssayKuchen—A Love Story: Maddie Ballard ArtCool Jazz and Monochromes: The Paintings of Jamie Te Heuheu ComicEverything Nice: Helena Pantsis Guest FictionFinger Patterns: Emma Ling Sidnam Fiction Preparations: Wayne MokThe Next Prank: Rebecca StylesBaby Flesh: Petra NymanMamadi and the Chickens: Pegah OujiMantou (馒头): Huina ZhengHeat Death of the Internet: Gregory Bennett Guest PoetrySeven Poems: Anne
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- [issue 68](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/issue-68/)
- [2009](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/2009/)
- [Linda Hunter](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/linda-hunter/)
- [Robyn Voyce](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/robyn-voyce/)
- [Tai Dong Huai](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/tai-dong-huai/)
- [Virginia Reeves](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/virginia-reeves/)
- [Kathleen Jackson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/kathleen-jackson/)
- [Brindi Joy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/brindi-joy/)
- [Barbara McCartney](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/barbara-mccartney/)
- [Barbara Berge](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/barbara-berge/)
- [John Newton](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/john-newton/)
- [Stephanie de Montalk](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/stephanie-de-montalk/)
- [Lynn Davidson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/lynn-davidson/)
- [Philip Temple](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/philip-temple/)
- [David Gregory](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/david-gregory/)
- [Ted Jenner](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/ted-jenner/)
- [Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jacqueline-crompton-ottaway/)
- [Barbara Pflaum](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/barbara-pflaum/)
- [Beverley George](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/beverley-george/)
- [Anna Taylor](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/anna-taylor/)
- [Geoff Cochrane](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/geoff-cochrane/)
- [Penny Sell](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/penny-sell/)
- [Andrei Baltakmens](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/andrei-baltakmens/)
- [Diana Menefy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/diana-menefy/)
- [Dustin M. Hoffman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/dustin-m-hoffman/)
- [Martin Jones](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/martin-jones/)
- [Louise Slocombe](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/louise-slocombe/)
- [Melanie Busato](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/melanie-busato/)
- [Dan Preston](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/dan-preston/)
- [Elena Moretti](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/elena-moretti/)
- [Campbell Taylor](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/campbell-taylor/)
- [Jo Emeney](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jo-emeney/)
- [David Ciccoricco](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/david-ciccoricco/)
- [Vaughan Gunson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/vaughan-gunson/)
- [Rosemary Adler](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rosemary-adler/)
- [Stephanie Grieve](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/stephanie-grieve/)
- [Craig Foltz](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/craig-foltz/)
- [Marisa Cappetta](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/marisa-cappetta/)
- [Elizabeth Coleman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/elizabeth-coleman/)
- [Vincent O'Sullivan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/vincent-osullivan/)
- [takahē 69](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/takahe-69/)
- [issue 69](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/issue-69/)
- [April 2010](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/april-2010/)
- [Cynthia Van de Loo](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/cynthia-van-de-loo/)
- [Heather Bauchop](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/heather-bauchop/)
- [Sue Reidy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/sue-reidy/)
- [Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/zarah-butcher-mcgunnigle/)
- [Margie Clarke](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/margie-clarke/)
- [Jan Kelly](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jan-kelly/)
- [Majella Cullinaire](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/majella-cullinaire/)
- [Joy MacKenzie](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/joy-mackenzie/)
- [Nancy Watts](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/nancy-watts/)
- [Robert Piggott](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/robert-piggott/)
- [Tom Brennan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/tom-brennan/)
- [Dave W. Currie](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/dave-w-currie/)
- [Greg Knowles](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/greg-knowles/)
- [Cassandra Passarelli](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/cassandra-passarelli/)
- [Jillian Sullivan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jillian-sullivan/)
- [Rupa Maitra](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rupa-maitra/)
- [Alice Peterson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/alice-peterson/)
- [Neil Keating](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/neil-keating/)
- [Alex Stone](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/alex-stone/)
- [George Hadland](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/george-hadland/)
- [Pip Adam](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/pip-adam/)
- [Brian Turner](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/brian-turner/)
- [Bill Manhire](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/bill-manhire/)
- [Tusitala Marsh](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/tusitala-marsh/)
- [Rudolf Boelee](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rudolf-boelee/)
- [Katharina Jaeger](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/katharina-jaeger/)
- [Aaron Blaker](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/aaron-blaker/)
- [Sean O'Leary](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/sean-oleary/)
- [Kate Mahony](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/kate-mahony/)
- [Anna Rugis](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/anna-rugis/)
- [Ann French](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/ann-french/)
- [Rhys Brookbanks](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rhys-brookbanks/)
- [Rosalind Horsman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rosalind-horsman/)
- [Lucy Hammonds](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/lucy-hammonds/)
- [Douglas Lloyd Jenkins](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/douglas-lloyd-jenkins/)
- [Claire Regnault](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/claire-regnault/)
- [Manying Ip](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/manying-ip/)
- [Harvey McQueen](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/harvey-mcqueen/)
- [Basim Farat](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/basim-farat/)
- [F. W. N. Wright](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/f-w-n-wright/)
- [Juliana Feaver](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/juliana-feaver/)
- [Faye Drawneek](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/faye-drawneek/)
- [Rachel O'Neill](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rachel-oneill/)
- [Michael Tyler](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/michael-tyler/)
- [Maria Hansen](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/maria-hansen/)
- [Mike Borgfeldt](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/mike-borgfeldt/)
- [Josie Charlotte Jackson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/josie-charlotte-jackson/)
- [Nick Sansone](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/nick-sansone/)
- [Tusiata Avia](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/tusiata-avia/)
- [Denys Trussell](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/denys-trussell/)
- [Joanna Langford](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/joanna-langford/)
- [Chris Parsons](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/chris-parsons/)
- [Aleksandra Lane](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/aleksandra-lane/)
- [Rebecca Bishop](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rebecca-bishop/)
- [Angela King](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/angela-king/)
- [Dorothy Howie](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/dorothy-howie/)
- [Gok Wan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/gok-wan/)
- [Peter Siddell](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/peter-siddell/)
- [August 2011](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/august-2011/)
- [issue 73](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/issue-73/)
- [Jane Schollum](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jane-schollum/)
- [Deborah Rogers](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/deborah-rogers/)
- [Fiona Kidman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/fiona-kidman/)
- [Greg Michaelson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/greg-michaelson/)
- [Sean Monaghan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/sean-monaghan/)
- [James W. Barnes](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/james-w-barnes/)
- [Samuel C. Mae](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/samuel-c-mae/)
- [Allan Drew](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/allan-drew/)
- [Rocky Hudson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rocky-hudson/)
- [Bernie Kenny](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/bernie-kenny/)
- [Julie Sargisson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/julie-sargisson/)
- [Chris Aitkin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/chris-aitkin/)
- [Lesley Ayers](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/lesley-ayers/)
- [Joanne Preston](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/joanne-preston/)
- [Melanie Dunlop](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/melanie-dunlop/)
- [Ila Selwyn](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/ila-selwyn/)
- [Frances Mountier](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/frances-mountier/)
- [Linley Edmeades](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/linley-edmeades/)
- [Medb Charleton](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/medb-charleton/)
- [Paul Moon](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/paul-moon/)
- [Simon Goodwin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/simon-goodwin/)
- [Kelly Joseph](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/kelly-joseph/)
- [T. Remington](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/t-remington/)
- [December 2011](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/december-2011/)
- [issue 74](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/issue-74/)
- [Liyen Chong](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/liyen-chong/)
- [K-T Harrison](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/k-t-harrison/)
- [Ron Riddell](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/ron-riddell/)
- [Sally Marx](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/sally-marx/)
- [Robin Fry](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/robin-fry/)
- [Jane Sloan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jane-sloan/)
- [Charlotte Trevella](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/charlotte-trevella/)
- [Deryn Pittar](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/deryn-pittar/)
- [Brian Flintoff](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/brian-flintoff/)
- [Ian Wedde](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/ian-wedde/)
- [April 2012](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/april-2012/)
- [Alistair Paterson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/alistair-paterson/)
- [Elizabeth Rankin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/elizabeth-rankin/)
- [Michael Reed](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/michael-reed/)
- [Sandra Thompson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/sandra-thompson/)
- [Diane Victor](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/diane-victor/)
- [Daniel Heyman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/daniel-heyman/)
- [Naomi Ramsay](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/naomi-ramsay/)
- [Susan Kornfeld](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/susan-kornfeld/)
- [Zdravka Evtimova](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/zdravka-evtimova/)
- [Margaret Moores](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/margaret-moores/)
- [Ken Duncan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/ken-duncan/)
- [Damien Wilkins](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/damien-wilkins/)
- [Suzanne Clark](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/suzanne-clark/)
- [Alex Calder](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/alex-calder/)
- [World of Wearable Art](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/world-of-wearable-art/)
- [Audrey Cook](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/audrey-cook/)
- [Jenny Clay](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jenny-clay/)
- [Jeremy Roberts](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jeremy-roberts/)
- [Hayden Hyams](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/hayden-hyams/)
- [Mohamad Atif Slim](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/mohamad-atif-slim/)
- [Jules Koch](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jules-koch/)
- [Charles Hadfield](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/charles-hadfield/)
- [Kirsten Cliff](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/kirsten-cliff/)
- [August 2012](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/august-2012/)
- [issue 76](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/issue-76/)
- [takahē 76](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/takahe-76/)
- [Andy Evans](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/andy-evans/)
- [Christine Siaosi](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/christine-siaosi/)
- [Celia Coyne](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/celia-coyne/)
- [Nathan Bennett](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/nathan-bennett/)
- [A. F. Tyson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/a-f-tyson/)
- [Fiona Sussman](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/fiona-sussman/)
- [Eden Bradfield](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/eden-bradfield/)
- [Helen Kirkham](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/helen-kirkham/)
- [Alex Madison](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/alex-madison/)
- [Jonathan Barnett](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jonathan-barnett/)
- [Graham Crowley](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/graham-crowley/)
- [Simon Ogden](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/simon-ogden/)
- [Joel Le Blanc](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/joel-le-blanc/)
- [Leah McMenamin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/leah-mcmenamin/)
- [Peter McCoy](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/peter-mccoy/)
- [Patricia Prime and Owen Bullock](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/patricia-prime-and-owen-bullock/)
- [Julie Ryan](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/julie-ryan/)
- [Lindsay Pope](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/lindsay-pope/)
- [Belinda Diepenheim](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/belinda-diepenheim/)
- [Mary Macpherson](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/mary-macpherson/)
- [Helen Heath](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/helen-heath/)
- [Gigi Fenster](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/gigi-fenster/)
- [Sarah Shieff](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/sarah-shieff/)
- [takahē 77](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/takahe-77/)
- [issue 77](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/issue-77/)
- [December 2012](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/december-2012/)
- [Bronwyn Calder](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/bronwyn-calder/)
- [Gaye Sutton](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/gaye-sutton/)
- [Lyndsay Wood](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/lyndsay-wood/)
- [Lean McMenamin](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/lean-mcmenamin/)
- [Rachel Sawaya](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/rachel-sawaya/)
- [Brigid Barrer](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/brigid-barrer/)
- [Chris Tse](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/chris-tse/)
- [Kristina Jensen](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/kristina-jensen/)
- [Elizabeth McRae](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/elizabeth-mcrae/)
- [Miriam Barr](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/miriam-barr/)
- [Vivienne R. Smith](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/vivienne-r-smith/)
- [Jacqueline Fahey](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/jacqueline-fahey/)
- [Joanne Harris](https://www.takahe.org.nz/product-tag/joanne-harris/)