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Tracey Sharp reviews 'Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa' (Auckland University Press 2025) edited by Sereana Naepi.

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Tracey Sharp reviews 'Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa' (Auckland University Press 2025) edited by Sereana Naepi.

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'Writers never ask one another questions like ‘where do you get your ideas’ because we all know the answer will be useless. Every writer’s process is personal and not very replicable.'

Read ‘Massive Continuity of Horses’, a new essay by Una Cruickshank 🖤
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'Writers never ask one another questions like ‘where do you get your ideas’ because we all know the answer will be useless. Every writer’s process is personal and not very replicable.'

Read ‘Massive Continuity of Horses’, a new essay by Una Cruickshank 🖤
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Erica Stretton reviews The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey (THWUP 2025).

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As many outside the UK can't use BBC Sounds here's the Vis Aeternitatis recording used in the Upload programme
My thanks again to the brilliant @takahemagazine.bsky.social The poem's had a good afterlife because of their kindness in publishing it during the pandemic🙏 #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Lovely news for takahē fave, Breton Dukes! 🖤

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Upload with Leo Ulph - 16/10/2025 - BBC Sounds Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Leo Ulph.

My poem Vis Aeternitatis, first published in @takahemagazine.bsky.social and broadcast on BBC Upload is now on BBC Sounds. The poem is about 39 minutes in

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'Wildly informative and generous…begins as an inquiry into the world of climate change activism and swiftly unfolds into an interrogation of the racist hierarchy of knowledge.'

Māia Te Whetū reviews 'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura (Bridget Williams Books, 2025) ❤️🤍🤎

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'Wildly informative and generous…begins as an inquiry into the world of climate change activism and swiftly unfolds into an interrogation of the racist hierarchy of knowledge.'

Māia Te Whetū reviews 'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura (Bridget Williams Books, 2025) ❤️🤍🤎

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'...a sophisticated and multivalent voice, at once wise and vulnerable on its theses of otherness, gender, intimacy, grief and distance.'

Dani Yourukova reviews Dear Alter, by Jiaqiao Liu (AUP 2025).

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'...a sophisticated and multivalent voice, at once wise and vulnerable on its theses of otherness, gender, intimacy, grief and distance.'

Dani Yourukova reviews Dear Alter, by Jiaqiao Liu (AUP 2025).

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Closing tomorrow! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025 💫

If you have any barriers to sending your entry, please message us or use the contact form to get in touch ❤️

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Closing tomorrow! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025 💫

If you have any barriers to sending your entry, please message us or use the contact form to get in touch ❤️

www.takahe.org.nz/submit/

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

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Gaza

The dead boy tries to open his eyes.
He wants to see the world he is leaving.
But there is nothing to see here,
nothing and nothing, and anyway he is gone.
His parents held him while he died
but they are both dead, too.
Or he held them, no one remembers.

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Last call for entries! The Monica Taylor Poetry Prize closes at the end of September, so don't miss your chance to be part of this beloved competition.

💚$300 first prize + publication in the December issue of takahē
💚$150 runner up

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