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Killer Rack by Sylvan Spring
Jo Bragg sits down with bad apple contributor Sylvan Spring’s debut poetry collection ‘Killer Rack’ and lets us know whether this is one to read on repeat.
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Swallow Your Grief!
A house slides down from its perch on a cliff and a departed pet is kept in a cake-shaped box in the freezer in this essay from Gurleen Minhas.
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*Bigots in Training
Wondering if we have ever been truly free in play, olive (blyth) looks at the genealogy of ideology.
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Hopeful Things
In their bad apple debut Aroha Witinitara returns to the trenches of childhood to reflect on adulthood and deliver an optimistic message to their younger self.
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I Know How to Enter A Conversation
The world comes into view in minor and the major in this bad apple debut from Ella Quarmby.
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Colville
gorm hendo returns to summers of their youth, running around topless and exploring barefoot and unsupervised in this essay ‘Colville’.
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GROUPIE LOVE
Devon Webb reflects on her experience with groupie culture in Pōneke, the sexism ingrained within the music scene and the essential artistry of being a fan.
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manual focus
kī anthony reflects on childhood trauma and adult agency, as a photographic subject and photographer.
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At the time, pure agony
Brooke Soulsby recalls an instance of great confusion between romantic and platonic feelings. Possibly a consequence of reading too many problematic YA romance plots from the early 2010s? She is grateful for a fully formed prefrontal cortex.