Elizabeth Heritage reviews Te Moana o Reo | Ocean of Languages edited by Michelle Elvy and Vaughan Rapatahana
Māori Literary Currents
Gina Cole on Te Awa o Kupu edited by Vaughan Rapatahana and Kiri Piahana-Wong
You Don’t Look Like A Doctor, You Don’t Look Māori: Odd Because I Am A Doctor, I Am Māori, And This Is What I Look Like
Vaughan Rapatahana on Hiwa: Contemporary Māori short stories edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
Nothing Inside But Stars
Rachel Smith on A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha: An anthology of new writing for a changed world edited by Witi Ihimaera and Michelle Elvy
‘Just the Darkness and the Fire’
Francis Cooke on No Other Place to Stand: An anthology of climate change poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Jordan Hamel, Rebecca Hawkes, Erik Kennedy and essa ranapiri
Listening to Our Elders
Gina Cole on Haare Williams: Words of a kaumātua by Haare Williams; Tree Sense: Ways of thinking about trees edited by Susette Goldsmith
The Frankness of Strangers
Kerry Lane on Out Here: An anthology of takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa, edited by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes (Auckland University Press, 2021), 368pp, $49.99
Standing Strong
Tina Shaw on Sista, Stanap Strong! edited by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
Moments More
Melanie Dixon on Breach of all Size: Small stories on Ulysses, love and Venice edited by Michelle Elvy and Marco Sonzogni