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Alice Te Punga Somerville

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Māori) is a scholar, poet and irredentist. Her collection Always Italicise: how to write while colonised (AUP 2022), has been shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards 2023. Her scholarly publications include Once Were Pacific: Māori Connections to Oceania (Minnesota 2012) and 250 Ways To Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB 2020).

Behind Every Job Ad in Indigenous Studies

there are countless meetings at which mouths were fired like guns in the old familiar campaigns from which overstretched Native faculty limped home to be nursed by loved ones or by Netflix or by messenger threads or by many (too …

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Kupu rere kē

My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this …

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