The fifth installment of Epigraph is a short collection of poems by Grace Yee. Epigraph is made possible with the support of Mātātuhi Foundation…
Asian New Zealand Art & Culture
From Poetry
The Mother of Publishing
Our second Epigraph selection of 2020 is a short collection of poetry by Wellington-based writer Joanna Cho. Epigraph is made possible with support from Mātātuhi Foundation…
Epigraph Interview with Joanna Cho
In the second Epigraph interview of the year, poet Joanna Cho talks to Hainamana about her recent work and influences, and what she’d like to see change in the New Zealand publishing industry…
Inheritance
‘Inheritance’ by NITHYA NARAYANAN is the first collection of poetry selected for Epigraph, a project that will introduce readers to eight new and existing works of literature by Asian New Zealand writers in 2020. Epigraph Project is generously supported by Mātātuhi Foundation…
Epigraph Interview with Nithya Narayanan
In this first interview for Epigraph, a project introducing readers to new and emerging Asian New Zealand writers, Hainamana editor Amy Weng speaks to Nithya Narayanan about Inheritance, the grotesque body, and the role that fiction can play in conceptualising precarity and trauma…
Return to Cloud Mountain
A poem by NINA POWLES, written after Kerry Ann Lee’s installation Return to Skyland which begins: “One night in a dream, Kerry Ann Lee’s father journeyed from Wellington to Xi’an to see the terracotta warriors …”
Blue Ocean, Yellow River: On visiting Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
NINA POWLES | The blue wave towers over me, rising up to the ceiling where it hangs suspended from domed glass. I imagine the wave rising higher and higher until it shatters the glass and flows out across the city in a blue current. This is Kiko Moana, a large-scale piece woven together from tarpaulin by Mata Aho…
What’s the pH balance of yin + yang?
A poem by VANESSA CROFSKEY
Peanuts Pickled in Aged Vinegar
A poem by VANESSA CROFSKEY
Food to nourish the soul at Tasting Words
On your left as you come up Great North Rd, just before Titirangi Rd going west, there is a cluster of restaurants serving great food – noodle houses, dumpling joints, a kebab shop. There’s also a dairy, a barbers, a vape store, a locksmith, Woottons Auto Accessories and two kinds of tool stores. This strip…