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'The power of poetry is synonymous with speaking truth to power, which is often at odds with who gets to police what is said, and how' - the Poet Laureate Chris Tse has edited Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023, and you can read all about it here, then check out his edition over Easter
Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023 captures the spirit of the times | International Institute of Modern Letters | Victoria University of Wellington
The latest edition of the online anthology Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems is now live, featuring 25 poems chosen by Poet Laureate Chris Tse from nearly 4000 published in 2023.
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March 27, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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bit emotional about this one. it feels appropriate the Panto should leave us like a ship, to maybe one day return.
March 27, 2024 at 8:18 PM
In our last commissioned article before we close the doors, Mya Morrison-Middleton follows a sail across oceans, learns the many scents of harakeke, and reconnects with something once-lost.

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Opening Portals with Our Hands: On Te Rā, the Māori Sail
Te Rā, the only remaining Māori sail, has temporarily returned home. Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Te Rā, asking questions of its origins and future, while highlighting the work of those who are activ...
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March 27, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Matariki Williams breaks down Tīhema Baker's novel Turncoat – an exploration of New Zealand under the occupation of colonisers who only pay lip service to respecting the Treaty.

Also they're aliens.

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A State of Disconnection: The Human Alien Relationship of Turncoat
What if Pākehā were subjected to the same colonisation as Māori? Matariki Williams travels into the sci-fi world of 'Turncoat' - where an all-too-familiar narrative of colonisation plays out amongst a...
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March 26, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Tunmise Adebowale explores the works of Kate Fitzharris at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and finds a connection between Kate's sculptures and the Yoruba Ere Ibeji.

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Personal Review on Kate Fitzharris’ Clays & Yoruba’s Ere Ibeji
Tunmise Adebowale finds warmth and unexpected connections between wooden carvings of twins from her Yoruba whakapapa, and Ōtepoti-artist Kate Fitzharris’ works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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March 25, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Stacey Kokaua covers the life and career of Pip Laufiso, her place in the Ōtepoti activist community, and how and why we mindfully build places we call home.

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Pip Laufiso: Living and Breathing Pacific Arts in the Deep South
Pip Laufiso was born and raised in Ōtepoti and her contributions to Māori and Pacific arts in this city have spanned decades. Stacey Kokaua reflects on how Pip influences a community of creatives in a...
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March 21, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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March 12, 2024 at 11:37 AM
What can artists do in the face of atrocity? Matariki Williams explores the way the arts have been used in solidarity and protest.

Fundraiser patches for Palestine in header image made by Jordan Davey-Emms (Pākehā)

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Art is a Salve
From the Springbok Tour, to the Vietnam War, to the occupation of Palestine, Matariki Williams delves into how the arts have been, and can be, used to express solidarity and protest.
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March 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Late Summer: Waikanae
 
People like watching the dusk.
A father likes saying you must,
you mustn’t, you must.
 
A dog runs along the sunset beach.
It isn’t chasing anything.

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March 10, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa has a career spanning five decades. Her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua' ran between September 2023 and January 2024. The exhibit is confrontational, powerful, and critical.

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He Toka Tū Moana a Robyn Kahukiwa
Mya Morrison-Middleton reflects on the career of renowned Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa, and her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua', which showed at Season Gallery in Auckland and Christchurch's Centre ...
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March 6, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Gutted to hear this news. My students read an essay from @pantographpunch.bsky.social today! We talked about the politics of citation and how the loss of publications like this means it is that much harder for people to share their work and for people to access their work in Aotearoa.
Dear readers,

From March 28th, 2024, we will be going on hiatus. The team will be putting out a more thorough piece about our thoughts and feelings at the end of the month, but for now we’d love to celebrate these last weeks with you.

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March 6, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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This is a rough thing to announce. It sucks, it just sucks, I have no other words for it.
Dear readers,

From March 28th, 2024, we will be going on hiatus. The team will be putting out a more thorough piece about our thoughts and feelings at the end of the month, but for now we’d love to celebrate these last weeks with you.

Ka kite The Pantograph Punch
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March 5, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Really sad to hear this.
Dear readers,

From March 28th, 2024, we will be going on hiatus. The team will be putting out a more thorough piece about our thoughts and feelings at the end of the month, but for now we’d love to celebrate these last weeks with you.

Ka kite The Pantograph Punch
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March 5, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Dear readers,

From March 28th, 2024, we will be going on hiatus. The team will be putting out a more thorough piece about our thoughts and feelings at the end of the month, but for now we’d love to celebrate these last weeks with you.

Ka kite The Pantograph Punch
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March 5, 2024 at 7:42 PM
It feels impossible at times to imagine futures free of colonial and carceral violence, but we must – we must plan and build a better future.

With tribute to Fa’anānā Efeso Collins.

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What Shall We Build on the Ashes of a Nightmare?
Gabriella Brayne and Litia Tuiburelevu publish this essay, taken from a wider research project on Pacific Peoples and the Criminal Justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand, written with Liz Lotoa, Isabe...
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March 4, 2024 at 8:39 PM
As part of our Carving Space issue, Tom Denize cruises through time, through timeless/lost/joyful/secret queer space.

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Waterlilies Sucking Mud
Is cruising a form of time travel, a doorway into a pocket of Queer time, or something else entirely? Tom Denize unpacks the heat and magnetism of cruising spots.
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February 29, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Briar Pomana explores Wharenui Harikoa, a transformational space of joy, play, softness, craft, and love.

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Wharenui Harikoa is what dreams are made of
Briar Pomana (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) falls down the enticing crochet rabbit hole of artists Lissy Robinson Cole and Rudi Robinson, reflecting on the role ringatoi Māori pla...
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February 28, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Intimacy co-ordinators in Aotearoa New Zealand are overwhelmingly Pākehā, and their work can often reinforce Anglocentric ideas of the body. Emele Ugavule asks: how can we work towards a less-blinkered view of body sovereignty?

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Flesh as i Yau
Is the demand for intimacy co-ordinators, choreographers and directors just colonialism rebranding itself to undermine our sense of collective morale and personhood? In asking for collective responsib...
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February 27, 2024 at 9:28 PM
What makes a scene? What breaks it? Musician and poet Eliana Gray was in Ōtepoti in the 2010s, in amongst the city's DIY arts and music scene, and takes us on a journey through the people and places that make it happen.

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Filling an Empty Room
Ōtepoti musician and poet Eliana Gray reflects on the city’s DIY music and arts scene – how it came together, how it fell apart, and the places and people left behind in its wake.
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February 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Water gives life, but it must be cared for too. What happens when it isn’t? How do we respond as kaitiaki? As part of our Carving Space issue, Elise Sadlier flows through time, considering the past of a great awa, and its future too.

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Swimming in a Storm
A year after the flooding of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, Elise Sadlier muses on the state of the local awa, the histories that led to their pollution, and how we might weather the storms ahead.
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February 15, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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Reminder if you're in the AKL that I'm reading at Same Same But Different on Friday evening, and the piece I'll be doing otherwise isn't out until October.

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Opening Night Gala Campfire Stories
Opening Night Gala Campfire Stories, <p>The 2024 Samesame But Different festival weekend ..., Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland, Auckland, 16 February 2024,
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February 12, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Late last year, an IDF soldier raised a rainbow flag in a bombed-out Gazan street. Zina Abu Ali and Makanaka Tuwea reflect on how IDF pinkwashing tries to drive a wedge between marginalised communities, and how we cannot let it succeed.

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Rainbow Military Capitalism is Just Repackaged Colonialism
In this exchange, Zina Abu Ali and Makanaka Tuwe reflect on how rainbow capitalism and pinkwashing obscure violence, tug on our belongingness wounds, and erase the abolitionist history of the Pride mo...
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February 12, 2024 at 10:12 PM