Sarah Knipping on the person who taught her to connect with Papatūānuku.

Karamina’s longing for her anguished cry to be heard.

Anne-Marie Te Whiu and her relationship with te reo.

Miriama Gemmell on the absurdity of ‘I can’t roll my r’s’ and ‘I’ve always said it like this.’

Trigger Warning: Content in this piece contains references to rape and incest.

A poem about a childhood stolen through sexual violence.

Grace explores the existence of fairies until adulthood brings the death of magic.

Ariana links the natural world to inner listening.

On the importance of valuing and returning to our selves as women.

Ancestors and the ātua intertwine in this poem by P Edmonds-Topia.

One gentle caress belies the thievery of motion,

That chaos could return at any time, a gross tsunami of destruction…