Semira Davis

Guest writer

Semira Davis is an artist, writer and mother. Her poetry has appeared in Landfall, Ika, Re-draft, Blackmail Press, Takahe, and the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook. She is currently working on her first collection of poems. Semira was born in Carterton in 1988,

I asked my brother to send me drawings for it. He said most of them were half finished; I said that’s OK, I’d finish them.

My brother sends me pictures

When somebody dies we keep them alive with stories. It's the same with incarceration.

By Semira Davis | 27th March, 2021

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The Friday Poem: ‘Into the garden’ by Semira Davis

New poetry by Semira Davis.

By Semira Davis | 1st March, 2019