Join Enjoy at the Rita Angus Cottage for an event to celebrate the latest issue of Minarets journal, in conjunction with Tarika Sabherwal's summer residency. 

Minarets issue 15 is edited by Nirvana Haldar and connects the poetry and poetics of Aotearoa New Zealand with South Asia and its diaspora. Contributors to the issue will give readings of their work in Rita Angus' famous garden. Readings by Anisha Sankar, Faisal Al-Assad, Liam Jacobson, and Ya-Wen Ho.

This event is free to attend. Light refreshments provided. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please register here.

Minarets is a semi-annual journal of contemporary literature. With over a decade of issues featuring prominent and emerging writers and artists with a range of guest editors, the journal has sought to connect the poetry and poetics of Aotearoa New Zealand with international ideas.

Editor's note:

This one remains to be an ode for those who cannot sleep, for those who can and cannot grieve, and for those that live in interrupted durée.

In pursuit of generating a critical dialogue on borders, colonial nations and settler states, we have invited artists and writers to record their relation to these interrogations.

The fragmentation of the “South Asian” identity and its diaspora through the nation state’s homogeneity, has led to the erasure of spaces and its people. We have invited these interventions to ground themselves in Aotearoa, and in writing from this place, to understand borders, homogeneity, and the erasure of these spaces and people from “South Asia”.

We hope that this issue helps us arrive to the

memory of a place,

memory of a martyr,

memory of fleeing,

memory of reaching,

memory of a scent,

memory of a loved one,

memory of a home or many.

We hope that this issue holds space for all the grief that may come through this fragmentation, and together, creates an archive of spacio- temporal interventions by these poets.

—Nirvana Haldar