Category: 2015

1 | 2 | 3 Civil Defence Plan #63   Tēnā koutou katoa. Recently I’ve been making poems from commands and instructions. I’ve written them in the style of recipes, self-help books, educational materials, spiritual guidance books, advertorials and do-it-yourself instructions. It’s surprising how often we use bossy writing. It’s…

1 | 2 | 3 Civil Defence Plan #62   Change your status to molten rock. Be a deluge of lava, a cascade of magma a red-hot tide.   Donate the scoria to charity.   Post pics of the new-born landscape, the banquet table you have covered in candles.  …

1 | 2 Ruatoria   On a clothesline in a backyard bright yellow sheets flap like flags of sun, violent against the dun-dry land.   Here my second father was born, in these hills he worked as shepherd, stockman, timber cutter, shearer.   He left the land for the city.…

1 | 2 Hot Cross Lovers   wind in the rigging and in the hair on your skin, in the mixing bowl of our bed all the best ingredients come together   always room for a little extra spice and now we lie, steaming slightly like warm hot cross buns…

1 | 2 She Wants Fish and Chips   The twin towers are falling again and again I turn away from the news and say goodnight for the fifth time, notice her cheeks look leathery. Under the bathroom door the light’s still on, she’s rubbing toothpaste on her face.  …

1 | 2 My East Coast Table   thick butter on soft bread a bed for fried pāua guts served with sand shark, plumbed from the sea gutted & filleted, frizzled golden served with snails, pulled from rocks still immersed in ocean boil’d in the big pot, toothpicks, a jam…

1 | 2 Kiriwhakapapa   We make our dairy in the river: blue milk, cheese and salted butter   in plastic, curd in vacuum-pack. We set them in the rocks and water   duck in under peeling fuchsia. In these reaches, all is clear.   Wash in marble sun and…

G.M. Allen Donna Banicevich Gera Jenny Clay Janet Colson June Crane Sarah Delahunty Mary-Jane Duffy Nicola Easthope Liz Elson Catherine English Ann French Olivia Aroha Giles Rata Gordon Rob Hack Mandy Hager John Haxton Holly Hunter Jan Jessep Lynn Jenner Kristina Jensen Darryn Joseph Bob Morris Karen Peterson Butterworth Darshi…

Coconut Water   You hate the Bula Bus but you take it anyway. You take the Bula Bus to the Port, where The Hard Rock Cafe has materialised on an island in the South Pacific. It marks the Port’s centre, gimmicky movie-set facades extending from each side of its logo.…

Kia ora koutou, A few months ago I read the 4th Floor tasks sheet and thought that looks interesting. That’s the sort of recipe I like. I checked my utensils: eyesight not as good as it was but still pretty okay, hands not perhaps as supple as they once were…