Poetry

Poetry reveals ‘chaotic’ realities of being young in Aotearoa

“It felt like I had done 13 years of school just to never make it out of the lower class.”

Using poetry to talk about the climate crisis

Jordan Hamel is a writer, poet and award-winning poetry slam performer. He is one of the co-editors of the Climate Change Poetry Anthology, due to be…

One poem for every day I've been in isolation

After going into self-isolation on the 16th of March because he and his flatmates all have autoimmune diseases, poet Dominic Hoey decided to write a poem…

  • 26 Mar 20

The power of finding your voice

On a Saturday night in September, dozens of teenagers took to the stage of the Auckland Town Hall. They were there to perform at the grand…