Duos #7- Hana Pera Aoake and Mya Morrison Middleton
This guy told me that kicking all the sex workers off of K road was a good idea. He said K road had nothing to offer except crime and sex. He smelt like stale whiskey, mothballs and nervous sweat. He said the TPPA was a good idea. “The People’s Pharmacy of Aotearoa.” capitalism and mental illness. I don’t understand how you can’t think about how expensive my medication is going to be.
The 7th edition of Duos series new poetry by Hana Pera Aoake and Mya Morrison Middleton
On the Rims of Fiction
Writing may be cathartic. Still, unravelling the twisted knots of memory necessarily leads to Hebert’s own unravelling, the suspense of his writing style resounding delayed traumas. In loose chronology, he goes on drug binges, wrestles hangovers, luxuriates in visions of past lovers, dips a toe into the pool of political activism (he quickly withdraws), but also travels to Europe for the first time to attend a writers’ conference in Berlin and enjoys his time with his pregnant wife Mónica (to whom the novel is dedicated). This is a story infused with dreams of black magic, political unrest, lone flaneuring and hard drinking, but also one of kindness, compassion, sharp humour and a loquaciousness that one usually reserves for close friends.
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Medium Making – Something About Gerald Murnane’s Border Districts
What Murnane is most concerned with is language’s mediating force rather than its meaning-making potentialities, or that mediation itself might be the locus of meaning. Of the latter this is, like the narrator of his latest and possibly last novel, Border Districts, peripherally glimpsed.
Ryan Chang reviews Border Districts by Gerald Murnane.