Published in Overland Issue 219 Winter 2015 · Uncategorized Editorial Robert Sullivan This group of poems by New Zealanders has a variety of voices, dispositions and worlds. Tulia Thompson describes a fruit bowl’s jostling points of origin. Airini Beautrais creates a soundscape and a flowing life-world. Nicole Hawkins takes us to a young man’s high school graduation as he takes and heals the mantle of his people. Anna Jackson walks down the less travelled paths of poetry and sheds light on her process. Ben Brown shares a gift for his son which must be delivered face to face. Selina Tusitala Marsh uncovers veins of ore and precious minerals by questioning small-town authority. Reihana Robinson draws on the divine to reinscribe the land with a ‘toehold’ of Indigenous tenure. Kiri Piahana-Wong writes about personal loss and resilience. Apirana Taylor confronts colonialism. Murray Edmond gently sledges kiwi machismo and anti-poets. Rachel Fenton describes the silencing of women graphic novelists. Many of these poets have established tenures as poets of national significance, and some are still emerging. A spirit of interior or exterior resistance – a side-glancing eye to the nature of life – powerfully swayed this selection from the numerous inspiring poems submitted for this edition. Robert Sullivan Robert Sullivan is a significant internationally published Māori poet with nine books, including the poem Star Waka (Auckland University Press), the graphic novel Maui: Legends of the Outcast, and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year, Weaving Earth and Sky. He is head of Manukau Institute of Technology’s Creative Writing School, and one of the editors of the journal trout. More by Robert Sullivan › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 18 October 202418 October 2024 · Prizes Announcing the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers 2024 shortlist Editorial Team Sponsored by Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and supporters, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, established in 2014 and now in its ninth year, recognises the talent of young Indigenous writers across Australia. First prize includes $5000, an optional writing residency at Trinity College, and publication of the successful piece in […] 18 October 202418 October 2024 · Palestine See you on Sunday Tasnim Mahmoud Sammak A Palestinian is not odd at a Free Palestine action, I'm the assumed subject of these political activities. Most members of the public opposed to the state's alliance with the Zionist regime are not Palestinian, yet they have shown up for Palestine in the longest protests in modern history. They show up because they care. They care about the state of the world. They care about the state of this nation.