CONTRIBUTORS

Maraea Rakuraku

Indigenous, Ngāti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Tūhoe writer, Maraea Rakuraku creates work challenging patriarchy, oppression and colonialism. This is done in whatever medium feels appropriate whether it’s playwriting, poetry, journalism, theatre reviewing, academia or a combination of all. She has won the Adam NZ Play Award twice, in 2016 (Tan-knee) and 2022 (02 04 16 10 07) for plays set within her nation of Te Urewera. An upcoming play completes the trilogy. Poetry is featured in national and international anthologies and has been translated into french, german and spanish. A PhD completed at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand is a response to wahine Māori tropes on stage.

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For Hape Ages after I left your house and the lawn where it had all taken place I dreamed about her, e Hape. her karanga strong her hands ā wiri She waved me through the running kids – one looked …

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Sister, I Should Have Greeted You, with Hongi

What is this place? a can’t believe it’s true? a couldn’t have really happened? I di e died here. I di e dead here a something horrendous? a something unspeakable? Hear that? Rumbling downunder. Thundering upover. Feel that? Quake. Quaking. …

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Kōrerorero / the say-so

Named Streets for writers, Dickens, Emerson, Shakespeare, High school for a missionary, Colenso. A city, Napier, for some old white man, because they always are, or for some battle where my people were slaughtered by yours, or for some event, …

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