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Anne-Marie Te Whiu

Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kangaru) is a poet, editor, producer, weaver, researcher and educator who lives on unceded Wangal whenua. Her debut poetry collection is Mettle (UQP) and her editorial work includes Woven (Magabala Books), Whisper Songs (UQP), Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word (UQP) and she guest co-edited Cordite 116: Remember alongside Micaela Sahhar. Te Whiu is the recipient of the Varuna - Cove Park International Fellowship 2026.

‘Carry the sound of all the people we come from’: Nafanua Purcell Kersel in conversation with Anne-Marie Te Whiu

In 2019, I found myself in a classroom at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington sitting alongside 15 other Māori and Pasifika writers doing the CREW 256 course, led by Victor Rodger. One of those students whose writing stopped me in my tracks was Nafanua Purcell Kersel. Our shared journey to publication sings synchronicities in terms of timing and our chosen artist for the cover design of our debut poetry collections. Both of us unknowingly selected pieces by the remarkable artist, Momoe i manu ae ala atea’e Tasker.

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Petrichor in the Afternoon

my rescue dog barks at the front door one of us opens it on the other side a tall young man in efficient trousers and a crisp polo shirt emblazoned by lightning bolt logo his stormed umber eyes belong to …

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REMEMBER Editorial

Remembering requires an intermediary to obtain a form and a content. It might be a family or here a poet, it is unceasing as a task and not an artefact.

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Submission to Cordite 116: REMEMBER

How is memory assailed by states, by time, by the formation of institutional practices of commemoration? Alessandro Portelli once wrote that oral testimonies ‘are not always fully reliable … Rather than being a weakness, this is however, their strength: errors, …

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Fair Trade: a way to RE/order /imagine /code the world

It was August 2017 and the location was The Tibetan Kitchen on Brunswick Street in Meanjin, Brisbane.

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Further than Jonah

Mostly I just thought it was a really funny character my ears were the first to leave heading off without packing anything lobes tired of hanging on waiting to hear something different tired of listening to the same old same …

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dəˈmɛstɪk

police car in the driveway bed unmade since yesterday blue and red lights up the street not far to fall Christmas induced abuse flee home at midnight leave behind kids and plants to be watered able to walk but not …

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