Maria McMillan

Guest writer

Maria McMillan is mostly of Scottish, English and Southland ancestry. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast, is a dormant activist and an active poet, and works as an information architect. www.mariamcmillan.weebly.com

Elizabeth Knox and her latest novel, The Absolute Book. (Photo: Ebony Lamb)

Out of this world and into another: The Absolute Book, reviewed

'The beautiful are cruel, the cruel are sad, the demons are capable of good.' Maria McMillan reviews the new novel by Elizabeth Knox, bound to be one of the year's biggest local releases.

By Maria McMillan | 12th September, 2019

HONG KONG – MARCH 01: Graffiti of the portrait of Lee Bo (centre), with the Chinese words saying ”Who’s afraid of Lee Bo” on the wall at Mongkok on March 1, 2016 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. A Hong Kong bookseller, Lee Bo, appeared on television on Monday, saying that he had not been abducted by Chinese authorities, and sneaked into the mainland illegally to assist police with an investigation of his colleagues. (Photo by Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images)

Before the walls too were stolen from us: a personal essay on the monopoly of Phantom Billstickers

The announcement that National Poetry Day has been renamed and rebranded as Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day was much too much for poet Maria McMillan, who remembers the days when you were free to paste up any kind of poster you wanted - before Phantom came along, and took the walls, and the night.

By Maria McMillan | 30th March, 2016