essa may ranapiri

Guest writer

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.

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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.

By essa may ranapiri | 6th January, 2021

Seagulls at Raumati Beach, Kāpiti (Photo: Joao Inacio via Getty)

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

The poetry which pulled essa may ranapiri through a traumatic year.

By essa may ranapiri | 5th October, 2020

HM Bark Endeavour and Captain Cook setting out on his voyage in 1764. Image: Wellcome Collection

The Friday Poem: Hook & Cook by essa may ranapiri

A poem from essa may ranapiri's chapbook Polemic.

By essa may ranapiri | 4th September, 2020

An image from the book Te Manu Huna A Tāne (Photo: Jenny Gillam)

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

A diminutive book that thrums with power.

By essa may ranapiri | 8th June, 2020

Image: Steven Trainoff Ph.D/Moment via Getty

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.

By essa may ranapiri | 9th February, 2020

Photo: Wikicommons

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

A new poem by Kirikiriroa poet essa may ranapiri.

By essa may ranapiri | 17th January, 2020

The Friday Poem: ‘what the poem isn’t allowed to do’ by essa may ranapiri

The Friday Poem: ‘what the poem isn’t allowed to do’ by essa may ranapiri

New verse by Kirikiriroa writer essa may ranapiri.

By essa may ranapiri | 9th November, 2018