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Sarah Penwarden

Sarah Penwarden is a therapist and counsellor educator based in Auckland. She has had more than 50 poems published in literary journals in New Zealand and Australia including in Poetry New Zealand, Turbine, Meniscus, Southerly, Quadrant, Mayhem and takahē. She has had short stories published in tākāhe, brief, and Meniscus, and a story broadcast on Radio New Zealand.

Bird bingo

It’s bird bingo, he said, looking at the sheet. I tried not to beat the ten-year-olds who were also keen. You had to really listen. And there they were. Tūi, playing chase, fighting rivals: blue-black, green glossy, white. Puffed up …

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Crossings

Rangihoua Climb the pa and walk its ridgeback wet kikuyu grass. At the top, spy the land from bays to islands, dips to coves, as hills dissolve to sea. Climb down to Rangihoua and rest under Marsden’s cross. There, the …

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