essa may ranapiri
essa may ranapiri (Ngāti Wehi Wehi, Ngāti Takatāpui, Clan Gunn) is a poet from Kirikiriroa. Their book Ransack (VUP) has just been nominated for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry. They will write until they're dead. And after that sing.

An extraordinary, tender response to Witi Ihimaera's memoir Native Son
Poet essa may ranapiri says this review is one of the hardest things they've written.