Jodie Dalgleish
Kaitiaki o te Pō by John-Paul Powley (Seraph Press, 2018), 165 pp, $35
In his book of essays, Kaitiaki o te Pō, historian and teacher John-Paul Powley ruminates on self and a broader culture through the flow of his life, which eddies around the jut of histories and events that break a country’s current into caesurae. Each one is a stopping point full of personal refusals and tentative potentialities, poignant and sometimes rousing. [Read more…]