Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Introduction 1
Rangi Faith
Starlight Reserve 15
Dinah Hawken
The uprising 16
Vaughan Rapatahana
He moteatea; huringa ahuarangi 20
Tayi Tibble
Tohunga 22
Michaela Keeble
Science communication 23
Jessica Hinerangi
Mummy issues 25
Tim Jones
Not for me the sunlit uplands 27
Robert Sullivan
49 (environment 1) 28
Chris Tse
Photogenesis 29
Tracey Slaughter
Seven days 30
Ursula Robinson-Shaw
Everything is nice 31
Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor
My ex-boyfriend was a doomsday prepper. 34
Philip Armstrong
Lines Written During a Committee Meeting 35
Best Before 36
Alison Glenny
From Interglacial 39
Craig Santos Perez
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier 40
Love in a Time of Climate Change 43
Ankh Spice
Franz Josef Glacier 2020 (will they say) 44
The coast road is closed 45
Nadine Anne Hura
'It should be alright' 46
Bernadette Hall
In search of happiness 48
Sara Hirsch
Flood Warning 49
Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna'i
Marshallese Blue 50
If I could be so lucky 51
Sarah Maindonald
Rakiraki (Fiji) Category 5 52
Michelle Rahurahu
Hinemoana II 53
Anne-Marie Te Whiu
Missionary Position 55
Anahera Gildea
Shift 56
Te Kahu Rolleston
The Rena 57
David Eggleton
Deepwater Horizon 59
Time of the Icebergs 60
Hinemoana Baker
Last Born 62
Kirsty Dunn
Whai 63
Miriama Gemmell
Nga pakitara e wha 64
Karen Leef
Te Mutunga Iho 66
Laniyuk
So you want an Indigenous Poem 68
Rex Letoa-Paget
Lalomauga 71
Dadon Rowell
There isn't a right way to feel when your country catches fire 72
Brent Cantwell
The sounds of Mallacoota 74
Victor Billot
How good is this? 75
Tusiata Avia
Jacinda Ardern goes to the Pacific Forum in Tuvalu and my family colonises her house 78
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Unity 80
James Faiau
Asi-Sea/Ocean Lament from Baelelea, Solomon Islands 82
Mikaela Nyman Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
Two sides of the same story 84
Mikaela Nyman Carol Aru
Sea sisters 86
Richard Pamatatau
Two Steps Down 88
Hele Christopher-Ikimotu
Dear Banaba 89
Karlo Mila
Poem for the Commonwealth, 2018 90
Helen Heath
The Anthropocene 97
Caroline Shepherd
The Whale 99
Nina Mingya Powles
The Harbour 100
Cindy Botha
Hermit Crab in a Doll's Head 102
Dani Yourukova
The moon is rusting and we don't know why (but it's almost certainly our fault) 104
All my plants are dead and I'm pretty sure it's your fault 106
Chris Holdaway
From Biolumimscence 108
Whina Pomana
Gold Bloom 109
Alexandra Hollis
Stormchasers 110
Cassandra Barnett
Storm Mother 111
Maddi Rowe
Utopia 113
Ash Davida Jane
Carrying capacity 114
Location, location 115
Anuja Mitra
Precarious 116
E Wen Wong
The house that Saturn built 117
Frankie McMillan
The Uprising of My Aunt 118
Frances Libeau
Escape the weather 119
Dominic Hoey
Rain 122
The Last Season 123
Nick Ascroft
They're Playing the 'You've Gone on Too Long' Music, but the Essential Struggle Is to Think Yourself More Important Than the Schedules of Plebeians 124
Carin Smeaton
A Property Manager Walks into a Forest 127
Sinead Overbye
Hinemoana 129
Danielle O'Halloran-Thyne
She's the whole mutha-fuckin ocean 132
Tru Paraha
In my darkling universe 134
Stacey Teague
Spell for the end of the world 136
Spell to unearth (bones) 136
Jessie Puru
Papatuanuku Gets a Green Prescription 137
Roman Parrott
Burn 138
Rhegan Tu'akoi Emails from Air New Zealand are the Bane of My Existence 139
Rhys Feeney
The world is at least 6fty percent terrible 141
Brutalism 143
Laura Vincent
Anecdotal happiness 144
Zoë Higgins
End of the Berhampore Golf Course 146
Techno-optimism 147
Waiting 147
Janet Newman
Drought, Horowhenua 148
Joan Fleming
Drought summer 152
Catalogue 153
Tate Fountain
Countdown 157
Cadence Chung
Eviscerate 158
Emma Neale
Wanting to believe in the butterfly effect 160
Leona Kamuhangire
When I lived … 162
Hannah Lees
Annihilation 163
Sudesh Mishra
Nocturne 165
James Norcliffe
Lambton Quay 166
Rebecca Ball
Lindis Pass 167
Tara Black
Just Right 168
Eliana Gray
Summer's hot and so is everybody else 170
Jessie Fenton
In 2006, Disney Channel released a crossover episode called 'That's So Suite Lite of Hannah Montana' and I don't know if I've felt real joy since 172
Meagan France
Extinction 174
Arielle Walker
Dream futures from a plant placed beneath your tongue 175
Ruby Solly
Subterranean 176
Stevie Davis-Tana
Daughters of the Land 177
Briar Wood
One World 180
Kahu Kutia
Epilogue: E kore au e ngaro / I shall not be lost 183
Afterword 187
About the Authors 189
