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Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
3.0

3.5 - a powerful collection of poetry about being Māori in a settler colonial state - the writing style packs a punch, but there’s still both wit and aroha woven. The poems also flow between english and te reo, which I love.

Some faves of mine are “ielts”, “a new generation of historians on flight nz449”, “waitangi day 2019”, and, the best one of all, “an indigenous woman scholar’s prayer”.