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show you’re 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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…