Liam has written for a range of galleries and publications, and has performed in pubs & theatres across Aotearoa and overseas. In 2023 his poetry book, Neither, was published by Dead Bird Books. His second will be out in early 2026. Currently Liam is facilitating a gallery space called Puku as part of Te Tuhi’s curatorial internship.
Join the Street Poets & Artists Collective Enterprises- poets on National poetry day for a night of poetry. The S.P.A.C.E
Jack Remiel Cottrell is an itinerant flash fiction and short story writer with a sideline as a volunteer rugby referee. He also runs workshops teaching the art of flash fiction to students in rural secondary schools. Jack won the 2020 Wallace Foundation Prize for best manuscript, and has been shortlisted for a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2020 and 2022.
We are proud to collaborate this month with our friends at Artspace Aotearoa to present the work of Jacquie (J.C.)
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We read this at Te Mātāwai & had various responses – everyone had experience living in old houses in Dunedin & up here. Some felt a sense of depression some saw beauty & one person said hey there’s hope at least he’s got that whiskey! We argued about what the “hour of angels” was?
THE DAY MELTS AMONG ME
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at like 5.30/6ish
when the wind is heavy with gold
and there’re soft shadows of glass, dancing
every afternoon on old wallpaper
painted a sick ivory by the landlord
and while the mountain of rats
that insulate the walls are still dormant
or else plotting their heist of my coleslaw
and an ancient draught bleeds ice
thru the foot of my front door
and black mould is like frost on the ceiling
that’s sagging with age to the floorboards
and a garden of weeds climbs to your hip
thru borer holes
and i’m down to, like
the last third of a bottle of old birthday whiskey
listening to mississipi john hurt hurt with me
rich on winz fraud
in the wet light of the early evening
dreaming of somebody sweet
about then,
when i’ve endured myself long enough
to welcome the hour of angels
I find my breath heavy with calm