Instead Rebekah Rasmussen’s exhibition A Material Thing is set up in the room which faces the street in the 30upstairs Gallery. It’s a cold night. Howling. I fight with Brent on the way in about something I can’t remember now and Tallulah tells us to stop. It is freezing, driving rain, like a flock …
Category: 2014
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PENNY M. GEDDIS
How Penny M. Geddis Writes How does a writer think, read, write and revise their work? An interesting question with varied answers depending on who you are, what you write, and what you do in life. I believe that writing is essentially collaboration between me and the spirits that guide me. I know many …
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NAVINA CLEMERSON
The Violinist’s Dog The little dog woke up early on the first day and followed the new woman into the hall. Everything was different from what he was used to. The front door was wide open, and he went to the threshold, stood there and concentrated. He allowed the morning breeze to wash over …
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NATASHA DENNERSTEIN
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Body of Work Your body brought elation till it was ready for cremation. All that remains returned to me, rattling rectangular plastic box of you, your skin and muscle ashes, but bony bits intact. I play bones with your knuckles, knuckles with your …
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NATASHA DENNERSTEIN
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 amniotic sea you swim around in it you are mostly water just a thin membrane separates you off like an eggshell you are frangible red blood cells white blood cells and plasma and platelets make up your salty blood they swim around in it you swim …
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NATASHA DENNERSTEIN
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Respire, beat. My lungs fill up; my lungs empty out but you are gone and I’m still here and the muscle of my heart pumps my blood around. I’ve been poleaxed in a way that’s so profound by the dissolution of ‘us’ after so many …
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NATASHA DENNERSTEIN
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 circulatory your four-chambered heart pulses pulses fills up empties out shoots oxygen-rich nutrients to your extremities then your veins contract and send it back to be pumped pumped back out again around and around and so it goes and never stops your entire short life …
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NATASHA DENNERSTEIN
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 wound you get cut real bad your hands fly to your chest in an operatic gesture to staunch the flow but it’s leaking out it’s oozing out dripping down you’re losing a lot of blood your pressure drops you feel faint and drop in peripheral …
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MERE CHATER
Kotahitanga Pāraoa This is a story about a boy who is Māori. His name is Kotahitanga. He is ten years old and lives in the Urewera. He hasn’t had much exposure to tauiwi, which is the name people give to those who came second to this land. One day a Pākehā hunting group arrive and …
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MICHAEL KEITH
1 | 2 Goose summer, Whareroa Farm in memory of FSK Today we dawdle up the north-east valley track, inclined together on the edge of sun and shade. Late April, and decline – the year’s and yours – feels gentle in this spread of after-season summer. The sky is crazed with gossamer. We …
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