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CONTENTS 2018

This year’s journal includes prose and poetry exploring identity and its relationship with language. Each contributor approaches the topic as only they could.

 

Pip Adam

I talk to robots about my body

 

Ines Maria Almeida

Leave your country (and never go back)

 

Jane Arthur

Lore

Things I have learned about myself from internet quizzes

 

Morgan Bach

I could love you for a moment but there is democracy to think of

Some bone

 

Karen Peterson Butterworth

A lame housebound dictionary

 

Mary Cresswell

Learning how to do it in Wellington

 

Lynn Davidson

The wrong gallery

Mary-Jane Duffy

From The Gertrude Stein Workshops

 

Anahera Gildea

On trying to learn the reo at the Makara crossroads

 

Alison Glenny

Notes for a biography

 

Rata Gordon

Heavenly creatures

Physics

 

Rachel Kleinsman

Swimming

 

Mercedes Webb-Pullman

About time

Cruising the Nile

 

Zsenai

Tell me what it means

 

INTERVIEWS

In each of these interviews, New Zealand writers dive deep into their own identities. They discuss the impact heritage, gender, sexuality, upbringing, nationality and uncertainty have had on their lives, careers and creative work.

 

Hana Pera Aoake

It’s fucking expensive to be alive

Fury

I’m interviewing them as much as they’re interviewing me

essa may ranapiri

Language can guide us into thinking in certain ways

Stacey Teague

Being protective of your poems

 

4th Floor Journal

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