A significant category prize in the national Book Awards was granted to a Pacific woman for the first time on Wednesday. Prominent New Zealand journalist John Campbell said it’s outrageous there haven’t been more Pacifica women in the awards line-up in the past. He also said it’s staggering that nobody has painted James Cook in …
poetry
What right do we have?
I saw a rat on the highway, it was dead, splattered on the asphalt, by car tyres and rain. I wonder, is it the same rat I saw the other day, in front of my wheels, on a dark late night near the same spot? I slowed down and watched it run, over an unfamiliar …