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I Thought We’d Be Famous is a line in the sand. It's a look back on Dominic’s days pre chronic illness, and a new life of blood tests and cancer scares. It’s about the dreams that rusted in the backyard and the ones he ended up living. It's about the guilt in his blood after escaping a life of welfare and...

Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them. In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. They may push each other's buttons, but know...

Francis Aschoff’s debut poetry collection is a time machine trip from the heights of first love to the yellow days of infancy, from crying in club bathrooms to a future not yet known. These poems are a magnifying glass, a tender eye and a flame thrower. They are love poems to the difficulties of love – love that is absent...

Tusiata is the sophomore poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. This book was written for the daughters of the diaspora; the maidens of many migrations; the princesses of pāua. Tusiata is a true account of a teine Sāmoa smacking the streets of Aukilani, and swimming all the way home to the shores of Apia. She is an invitation to...

Based in Aotearoa, The National Grid is a periodical dedicated to research in the field of graphic design.The periodical takes an expansive view on graphic design as it intersects with culture, society, politics and histories. As a practice fundamentally concerned with the reproduction and distribution of language, graphic design—The National Grid suggests—is significantly more interesting, and more impactful, than purely...

Tusitala is the debut poetry collection from Danielle Kionasina Dilys Thomson. It was written for "the mothers who whispered wisdom into my ears, aunties who slipped twenty-dollar notes into my hands and sisters who cackled with me into the night. These poems are an archive of the lives we have lived together. The are eternal - like us."