Feana Tu’akoi

‘I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.’ ⚓️

‘bed of eyes and leaky pens’ 🖊️

‘at your bedside, scattered
citrus rinds, the cat, the scent of clementines.’ 🍊

‘Only
tremors, sweetness
on the tongue’🍬

‘No one wants to talk about the hilarity after death’ ⚡️

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

‘as
though one bean
could nourish us.’ 🫛

‘Away from the too-rough fingers
of the world.’ 🌤️

Starred review in Booklist for The Terrible Trio: The (not so) Superheroes

The Terrible Trio: The (not so) Superheroes is Review of the Day for Booklist on 20th November 2025. Yeah, I know - I’m a bit late to this but I don’t have Facebook and my husband only just noticed it because he’s mainly on Facebook looking for those t-shirts that make you looking muscly up top and less Dad-bod below.

First starred review - bit chuffed about that ❤️

‘I am smudged and chaotic’ 🫟

‘He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy.’ 📦

‘What astonishes is the singing.’ 🎶

‘Most things have vanished
while we were talking’ 🫥

An incredible shortlist! Vote for your fave and if you fancy it vote for How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train by me and @jessbradley.bsky.social 👵🏽🧪

‘She was probably right about me getting
strange.’ 🦤

2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets ($9000) - Overland literary journal About the prize Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no ...

Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.

‘Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles’ ⚡️

‘Tenderness does not choose its own uses.’ 🌼

The book cover is shown on a pale green background. It is a black cover with a photograph of a cream, collared, long-sleeve button up shirt, on a wire hanger on a slight angle. In pale green writing at the bottom it says 'WHAT TO WEAR Jenny Bornholdt.'

A poem from the book is shown in dark blue text on a pale green background. The poem title is 'illness' and the poem reads: 'She's up,/ but not/ to much.// Every limb/ unknowable,/ unstable.// She's up, but just, just/ hanging on. But what/ to wear?'

We're delighted to be publishing What to Wear in February next year, a new poetry collection by Jenny Bornholdt, one of Aotearoa's most-loved poets.

More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...

‘the terror
of being just one person’ 🍃

‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ 🪶

‘Someone organizes hurt by color’ 🎨

‘A mower parted the bronze sea of corn’ 🌽

❤️ Palmy!

‘all that was ever seen was a shoe’ 💔

'What we need is here.' 🙌🏽

‘The world is not illusory, we are’ 🍃

🥳🎉🎊

‘I lie here in a riot of sunlight’ 🔆

'Whistling their whims on a low fence-
wire’ 🐦‍⬛