POETRY

2023

in SPIRAL 

standing on a cold black sand beach somewhere in the future breaking my own heart 

in Whakaruru-taha

Ram Raid (written with Michelle Rahurahu)

in Awa Wahine 3

to be an obsidian woman

in Poetry Aotearoa 2023

@hine: They never were don3 up like that

on Cordite Poetry Review

O! Angaanga

on Poetry Shelf

cracked or crackling or splitting down the sides

in Mayhem 10

THE SKY /&/ THE EARTH

2022

on Poetry Shelf

Three Siblings on the End of the World as they Know It 

in Nexus 

We Walk Backwards Into Gender

in Volume

Never start a poem with the weather if it can be helped

mana_whenua 2.0

in Correspondence 1.2

Alba and the atua

in Poem a Day

Hinemoana

in Eel Mag

did Hinemoa have bi-husband energy?

in The Artpaper

The Whakapapa of Black Pearl

at Laree Payne Gallery 

flow/er

in Poetry NZ Yearbook 2022

(when)_2(g(a)e(ther).exe

2021

in Mayhem 

Tūmatauenga on the Frontlines

te mata o te arero

in Minarets

where i got the idea of apart from

in Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa

knot-boy ii

on Stasis

who weaves the sea?

in Singlets Briefs & Shorts 

Zealandia

in Skinny Dip

kutu

on Te Papa

hands on stomach lizard body / tattooed face, hollow head, plain wood / carved wooden figure of palisade type, dark in colour, part of figure’s left arm broken away

in Poetry NZ Yearbook 2021

Hineraukatauri & Her Lover (reading of it here)

in Best New Zealand Poems 2020

my dream of a nonbinary prison

on Poetry Shelf

Echidna & Nafanua 

in blackmailpress 44

Toikupu 

2020

in Aotearotica 8

weri
They talk and they talk and everyone ignores it
passing as nonbinary part 2
are butterfllies sexually dimorphic

in Notes for Neighbours 

you wave over the fence

in Impossible Beast: Queer Erotic Poetry

weri
Ponded in a Serenade
in th machine
Maui-Potiki & Pomīahias Make Love on Orimapa Maunga

in Turbine | Kapohau

Zoa
Echidna and the Spider

in Mayhem 8

Echidna is a cleaner at night
Mauao and the Angel Michael

in Landfall 240

Kurangaituku & the Siren

in Whanake | Rise

koiwi
[what fucking nerd designed this]

in Ko Aotearora Tātou

Silence pt 2

in Sweet Mammalian 7

[latecapitalismskeletonobservesrealitymelt.gif]
[yoga on th internet]

in Oscen

One Would Imagine Sisyphus is Doing Something Incredibly Important

on Love in the Time of Covid

Hine-nui-te-pō and the Dominant Species

on The Spinoff

Hook & Cook

on Poetry Shelf

when i was born i didn’t say anything

in Kotahitanga

[the air is thick with solidarity]

in Landfall 239

echidna goes to see the drone perform in front of a live audience

in saltwater love 

I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
ASSEMBLED INTO A PILE THE SHAPE OF GOD AND SET ON FIRE

in Te Korekore

Exes on Stolen Land

in Nexus 

Echidna And Rona Fucking In The Back Seat Of A Car While The Moon Watches

in Stasis

Sorry For Your Loss
for my brother who has lost a brother

in Sporazine

Rarohenga
My ancestors dream
what picture could we replace it all with?

in Tupuranga

Holding onto Tamawahine

in Poetry Yearbook 2020

Reading of ‘My Dream of a Nonbinary Prison’

in Takahē 98

o god i called u to fix the things that were broken

in Exploring Multi-cultural Poetry

pukapuka

in Notes from Self-Isolation

Take

on Poetry Shelf

Tangihanga in the time of COVID19

in Ōrongohau|Best New Zealand Poems

a phone call about the nature of pronouns gendered and otherwise

in Ourselves: Issue One 

The Sky Is A Trans Man

on The Spinoff Friday Poem 

Kae and the Tohorā

2019

in Turbine | Kapohau

visiting Wehi Wehi marae on google maps
Our Earth’s Circuitry
echidna & narcissus

in Sport 47

kuia

in Verb Journal 2019

make me forbidden animal forbidden

in Sweet Mammalian 6

standing at the front of a room delivering a karakia

in Mayhem 7

disconnected [ at the end of the world
black+red

in In Common 

the colonised subject / trying to function inside / the corpse of empire

on Poetry Shelf 

it’s 2019 and things like this are still happening

on Jane Sanders Art Agent

INTO THE TEETH OF THE GALE for Tūrongo

in Minarets X

the pain of separation are lights in the sky

in Sweet Mammalian (as part of a collaborative piece)

Stoned, Ureia buries one hundred pink dresses in the sand

in Oscen

# Attempts at a Resolution in the Wreckage

in Landfall 237

echidna thinks about the future
echidna gets a name change

in Palimpsest IX Trans 

my tongue as rope

in Ngā Kupu Waikato

Hide and Seek
My Maunga

in Poetry NZ Yearbook 2019

Gallows

in Aotearotica 6 

Maui-Potiki & Pomīahias Make Love on Orimapa Maunga

on Poetry Shelf

Pomīahias and His Lover’s Great Accomplishment 

in Starling 

three poems with Rebecca Hawkes

2018

in Takahē 94

we make just as much impact I would like to think

in Scum Mag 

echidna goes out on the town; meets typhon

in Turbine|Kapohau

Division as Cultural Myth

in Mayhem 6

Irrational Animal Cross-dresses 
hovered over the surface broken

in Landfall 236

echidna: born of eve and lucifer
echidna: half woman half snake

in Poetry NZ Yearbook 2018

ginkgo

on The Spinoff

what the poem isn’t allowed to do

on Toi Māori Aotearoa

how could i miss you with kumara in the oven

in Ruru Reads

the reo

in Otoliths

three poems

in Starling 5

three poems

in Starling 6

four poems

two poems with Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor & Loren Thomas

in POETRY Magazine

Are You Seeing Your Own Death and Selling it to Me?

on NZ Poetry Shelf

TO GET OUT

in Swamp

The Gizzard of a Chicken

in Brief 56

o|r
gender dysphoria
a g o n i e s – E t e r n i t y

in Mimicry

two poems

in Aotearotica 6

‘i love your body but mostly coz you’re in it’
fucking is a thing done with fingers

in Oscen

the transit of mercury

in Sport 46

Cough In
Sensephemera

2017

in Mayhem 5

three poems

in Poetry NZ 2017

la petite mort*

in Starling 4

found a picture of your mother

in Geometry (print & digital pg. 109)

a history in kissing holes*

in Salient (print & digital pg. 59)

not Dev

in Them (pages 26-27)

Lighter Than what?
Hue

in Queerlient

the author on their book

in Turbine | Kapohau

two poems

2016

in Mayhem 4

three poems

in Brief 55

Lynchpin*
Fuckedinamachine*

in Nexus (print & digital pg.16)

Lights On*

in Tearaway

Emaciate*
Life Gives You*
Break Bread Every Thursday*
This Person Too Will Close Their Eyes*

2015

in Mayhem 3

two poems

in Cadaverine

Squalus Acanthias*

in The Fem

Birds
The City of Your Clavicle

2014

in Mayhem 1

Grace

in Mayhem 2

two poems

published under the name joshua morris