09 • 04 • 20 / Arts & Culture / News / The Interview
Britomart: Unpeopled
Photographer Joe Hockley strolled the empty streets of Britomart and the central city and took these starkly beautiful images.
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Britomart: Unpeopled
08 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week Two
Faisal al-Asaad
Born in Iraq and now completing his PhD in Auckland, writer and researcher Faisal al-Asaad realises self-isolation is already a way of being for him and many others – and hopes Covid-19 might wake us up to the damage of it and change this enforced pattern of retreat.
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Faisal al-Asaad
08 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week Two
Lawrence Patchett
Lawrence Patchett’s 2019 novel, The Burning River, imagines the prospect of a very different New Zealand after an unspecified crisis. In this short piece commissioned by Britomart, entitled Protected, he contemplates separation and connection, and the delicate balance of the natural world.
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Lawrence Patchett
08 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week Two
Anahera Gildea
Writer and activist Anahera Gildea (Ngāti Raukawa-ki-te-Tonga) wrote this poem for our Notes on Self-Isolation series. It’s entitled 'He waka eke noa on the news feed'.
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Anahera Gildea
08 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week Two
Elle Hunt
London-based New Zealander Elle Hunt reports on life as a freelance journalist and the absurdity of public relations pitches in a world turned upside-down.
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Elle Hunt
02 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week One
Ruby Solly
In this poem, commissioned by Britomart and entitled In This Place, Wellington-based writer Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu) – she’s also a music therapist and taonga puoro practitioner who has played with artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Trinity Roots and Whirimako Black – contemplates the solitude of self-isolation.
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Ruby Solly
02 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week One
Gina Cole
Writer Gina Cole won the Best First Book Award at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Black Ice Matter, her short story collection. She’s also an Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. In this story, entitled A Mask of Isolations and commissioned by Britomart, she contemplates self-isolation, shopping for her parents, and the comforting sounds of a city gone quiet.
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Gina Cole
02 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week One
essa may ranapiri
essa may ranapiri (Ngāti Wehi Wehi, Ngāti Takatāpui, Clan Gunn) is a poet based in Kirikiriroa whose first collection of poems, Ransack, was longlisted for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. This poem, commissioned by Britomart and written in response to the state of lockdown, is entitled Take.
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essa may ranapiri
02 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week One
Carl Shuker
Carl Shuker is the author of A Mistake, a finalist in the fiction category of this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. In this fragment from an unpublished novel, the staff of a London medical journal ponder an unspecified social disruption that requires them to work from home. The story is entitled The office was empty.
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Carl Shuker
02 • 04 • 20 / Notes from Self-Isolation / Week One
Tayi Tibble
Writer and poet Tayi Tibble (Ngāti Porou/Te Whānau ā Apanui) won the Best First Book of Poetry Award at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her collection of poems, Poukahangatus. In this poem, entitled Te Whānau, she ponders the sense of separation that kicked in when some of her iwi decided to close their tribal lines in response to Covid-19.
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Tayi Tibble
