OTHER WRITING

ESSAYS/ARTICLES/RESPONSES

Erotica in te ao Takataapui is a tradition as old as time

Making love with the land: Three new queer Indigenous poetry collections

Transformation: a takatāpui response to Whiti Hereaka’s novel Kurangaituku

WHIRO IN THEIR ORIGINAL GLORY, Michelle Rahurahu & Essa Ranapiri

Light, air, water: A celebration of Māori poetry in lockdown

[in-sect-i-cide]

May Fair: Texts by Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua and essa may ranapiri

What the kiwi can teach us: A review of the brutal, radiant Te Manu Huna A Tāne

No Girl-dick of Nature: an essay on discovering my gender in a forest of language.

Dancing With Hikule’o: A response to TongPop Herstory 

R.E.S.P.E.C.T Opinion Piece for Express Magazine

Response to Native Son by Witi Ihimaera 

My Childhood Books: essa may ranapiri

Bodies of Water: A Conversation Between essa may ranapiri and Eliana Gray

short piece on three books

REVIEWS OF POETRY

Eager to Break by Eliana Grey

Rāwāhi by Briar Wood 

Poūkahangutus by Tayi Tibble

Minerets 8 from Compound Press

Say It Naked by Rachel Tobin

Night As Day by Nikki-Lee Birdsey 

The Farewell Tourist by Alison Glenny

irony | sincerity by Hera Lindsay Bird and Klim Type Foundry