iti te kupu (small words in a vast universe)

Iti te Kupu is a newsletter slash e-zine published by me, Nadine Hura. I am Ngāti Hine (Ngāti Kahu o Torongare ki Waiōmio) and Ngāpuhi (Ngāti Tautahi) and Pākehā (Irish/Scottish). I live on the unceded stolen lands of Ngāti Toa Rangatira in Te Upoko o Te Ika, Aotearoa. (Wellington, New Zealand).

I publish essays, reviews of reviews, poetry, curated recommendations and occasional forays into comedic auto-fiction. Kaupapa is creative resistance is radical practice. Views are intersectional, anti-colonial, striving for re-indiginisation. Topics weave Te Tiriti justice, land back, climate change, literature, healing and reconnection through the arts.

I basically try to explain and demystify complicated stuff through story, guided by ancestral knowing (arā, te taha wairua).

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I am member of an indigenous publishing collective Taraheke Press and released my first chapbook, Narrating the seasons of Grief in 2023. This book is hard to find (you can try Unity Books in Wellington) but mostly it travels its own free path, proudly unconstrained by the demands of capitalism. I am working on a collection of essays on climate and connection for publication with BWB in 2024.

You can find my writing in some lovely physical books like Woven, Rapture, No Other Place to Stand, Te Awa o Kupu, Ngā Kupu Wero, We Are Here, as well as the Huia anthologies 13, 14, 15, and online in Guernica, Pantograph Punch, and e-Tangata.

I think this is my favourite of all my published essays.

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