Starling

11/07/2025

mauatua fa’ara reynolds (), ‘firm-breasted young raiatean girls’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

04/07/2025

rachel lockwood (). ‘a.s.’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

01/07/2025

sofia drew (.g.drew), ‘how to build a bird (a timeline)’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

27/06/2025

freya turnbull (), ‘mussel mass’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

21/06/2025

alexandra cherian (), ‘submarine revolver solstice’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

19/06/2025

lilly kelleher (), ‘a funeral in pāuatahanui’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

17/06/2025

bella sexton (), ‘other lives’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

13/06/2025

neve hopman (), ‘santorini’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

13/06/2025

AUP New Poets 11, featuring Xiaole Zhan, Margo Montes de Oca and JA Vili is in stores now, and Poetry Shelf has a set of interviews and audio readings with all three authors up today!

AUP New Poets 11: Xiaole Zhan, Margo Montes de Oca, J. A. Vilieditor Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press, 2025 The AUP New Poet series has launched the careers of many poets, consistently showc…

10/06/2025

hinemoana baker (), ‘medicinal’ // starling issue 19 // summer 2025

06/06/2025

"And now at 4am we are more still
than the late-summer night where the ticks hide in long grass

and wild dogs dream of running through unpaved streets
kicking up dust along the river. My body

that can jump and slide and twist and love
is silent in its sleep

but the dance is in my bones"

- Weichu Huang, 'becoming/unbecoming'
https://www.starlingmag.com/issue-19/weichu-huang

03/06/2025

"On the bus and suddenly aware of tendons. The obviousness of tendons.
Or just their weightlessness. All movement compressed down

to the conditions of the image—held like the tension on the surface of the eye."

- Calvin Smith, 'Compression #2'
https://www.starlingmag.com/issue-19/calvin-smith