essa may ranapiri
essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Te Arawa, Ngaati Pukeko, Clan Gunn) is a poet who lives on Ngaati Wairere whenua. Author of ransack (VUP, 2019) and ECHIDNA (THWUP, 2022). Co-editor of Kupu Toi Takataapui | Takataapui Literary Journal with Michelle Rahurahu. They have a great love for language, LAND BACK and hot chips. They will write until they’re dead.
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Culture
Essa Ranapiri and Joshua Whitehead: a kōrero of Indigiqueer proportions
essa may ranapiri17 May 2023
Ātea
Erotica in te ao Takataapui is a tradition as old as time
essa may ranapiri10 Nov 2022
Culture
Making love with the land: Three new queer Indigenous poetry collections
essa may ranapiri09 Oct 2022
Culture
The Friday Poem: Māui & Prometheus Have a Meet-Cute, by essa may ranapiri
essa may ranapiri06 May 2022
Culture
Transformation: a takatāpui response to Whiti Hereaka’s novel Kurangaituku
essa may ranapiri25 Jan 2022
Culture
An extraordinary, tender response to Witi Ihimaera’s memoir Native Son
essa may ranapiri06 Jan 2021
