Publication

TV’s grotesque attention surgery

Where once I might have settled in to relish a reality show, now I must settle for documentaries about the horrors of a reality show. You can tell by the gait of my gaze, you can tell by my lunch, I am of the generation that came of age in the early...

Not the same as ever it was

David Byrne is a polymath who began his career with Talking Heads. Since their 1991 spilt, Byrne, who was born in Scotland and raised in Canada and the US, has released 12 solo albums, sometimes in collaboration with artists such as Brian Eno and St...

Language trauma and lightbulb moments

years old (I think?), our next door neighbour, Mere Montgomery (who was Tongan and Ngāpuhi) starting teaching te reo Māori at nights at our marae, with a green textbook called Modern Māori .I think Dad and I would rock up and do the classes. I don’t...

The FingerFlower

By WARREN PALMER I imagine a world where my fingers all move as they used to I don’t understand how I work so hard on my little finger and my thumb moves instead sometimes I dream of a world where my fingers all flower as they once did always my...

Living the dream

In just a short time, Judah Kelly has gone from playing gigs in Dunedin to opening for Grammy nominee Lewis Capaldi and talking songwriting with Coldplay’s Chris Martin. It’s been a whirlwind few years for the independent artist, who studied...

Love, courage and hope

GREAT TALES OF AOTEAROA Tom Clarke Bateman Books More than 40 years ago, Tom Clarke was compiling a Today in History New Zealand resource for broadcasters and ended up with 4500 two or threesentence bites of our past. At the same time, I was...

Making space for culture and language

Last week, our whare had a little more lea fakaTonga in it, a little more of the Tongan language. I was more intentional about speaking to my children, encouraging them to respond and making space for conversations that might otherwise be hurried past...

Wind Funnel

By DAVID EGGLETON Swooping over curves of bays and hills, when we do begin falling towards Wellington, through a pocket of air or two, the plane bobs energetically like a ballet dancer. They say the wind’s blowing dogs off chains down there, blowing...

"I am scared. Come get me please."

Nisreen Qawas has developed a technique to help her face the relentless pressures of her job. ‘‘I have this trick called ‘freezing’, which is a kind of defence mechanism that I use for my mind and my body whenever I am in an extreme stress...

COOK'S TROUBLED LEGACY

CAN'T HELP IT