ABOUT

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.

The Minarets are two peaks of the Southern Alps, located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park in the South Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Summer 2025

Issue 15

Edited by Nirvana Haldar

Special issue connecting the poetry and poetics of Aotearoa New Zealand with South Asia and its diaspora.

Featuring:
Ana Iti, Anisha Sankar, Arielle Walker, Fazal Rizvi, Frances Libeau, Imaad Majeed, Jasmin Singh, Liam Jacobson, Priyanka Chhabra, Shivangi Mariam Raj, Shripad Sinnakaar, Ya-Wen Ho.

featured Authors

LITERATURE · POETRY

Hana Pera Aoake

(Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Tainui/Waikato) Artist, poet, writer, and curator; author of A bathful of kawakawa and hot water (Compound Press, 2020) and Blame it on the rain (No More Poetry, 2025). Hana lives in Kawerau in the shadow of Pūtauaki maunga, and is a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology.

LITERATURE · POETRY

Craig Foltz

A writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and galleries. He has previously released two books on Ugly Duckling Presse. He currently lives and works in New Plymouth, pinched between the wild and remote west coast and Mt Taranaki. More info at craigfoltz.com

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Issue 14 / 2024

Edited by Niamh Hollis-Locke
Published April 2024
ISSN 2253-4873

Featuring: Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor, Gabriel Curtin, Eartha Davis, Ronia Ibrahim, Loretta Riach, Ruben Mita, Margo Montes de Oca, Mark Prisco, Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Elizabeth Welsh

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