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essa may ranapiri

essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Te Arawa, Ngaati Pukeko, Clan Gunn) is a poet who lives on Ngaati Wairere whenua. Author of ransack (VUP, 2019) and ECHIDNA (THWUP, 2022). Co-editor of Kupu Toi Takataapui | Takataapui Literary Journal with Michelle Rahurahu. They have a great love for language, LAND BACK and hot chips. They will write until they’re dead.

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Essa Ranapiri and Joshua Whitehead: a kōrero of Indigiqueer proportions

Erotica in te ao Takataapui is a tradition as old as time

Making love with the land: Three new queer Indigenous poetry collections

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The Friday Poem: Māui & Prometheus Have a Meet-Cute, by essa may ranapiri

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Transformation: a takatāpui response to Whiti Hereaka’s novel Kurangaituku

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An extraordinary, tender response to Witi Ihimaera’s memoir Native Son

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Light, air, water: A celebration of Māori poetry in lockdown

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The Friday Poem: Hook & Cook by essa may ranapiri

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What the kiwi can teach us: A review of the brutal, radiant Te Manu Huna A Tāne

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An extraordinary, tender response to Witi Ihimaera’s memoir Native Son

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The Friday Poem: Kae and the Tohorā by essa may ranapiri