Robyn Maree Pickens on Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, Manuali’i by Rex Letoa Paget and Spoiled Fruit: Queer poetry from Aotearoa edited by Damien Levi and Amber Esau
The Young Kamp Girls Meet Up at the Casa D’Oro
Max Oettli on Hine Toa: A story of bravery by Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku
Rules That Weren’t Made with Him in Mind
Ash Davida Jane on Max by Avi Duckor-Jones
This is Just the Body I Brought with Me
Francis Cooke on Articulations by Henrietta Bollinger
Towards Night Moorings
Pat White on Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson, Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring, and A Long Road Trip Home by John Allison
I Put On My Red, Heart-Shaped Wall Light
Jenny Powell on Dream Girl by Joy Holley; Signs of Life by Amy Head
Across the Great Divide
Vaughan Rapatahana on On Elephant’s Shoulders by Sudha Rao; Expectation by Tom Weston; Echidna by essa may ranapiri
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