Eliana Gray

Eliana Gray is a poet living in Ōtepoti. They like cold water and clouds. You can find their work around the internet and printed in various places, such as: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, Minarets, Landfall, and Mayhem. They’re not on social media, but carrier pigeons may be sent to: [email protected].
  • Poetry Review: Tung 

    Poetry Review: Tung 

    By Robyn Maree Pickens (Otago University Press, 2023) The immediacy of the body in nature is the root system from which Robyn Maree Pickens’ debut collection of poetry, Tung, springs. The book’s first acknowledgment goes to a tiny cottage and surrounding nature in Ōtepoti’s greenbelt, where Pickens lived while writing this excellent and engaging collection.…

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  • Recipe: Food for walks

    Recipe: Food for walks

    Eliana Gray shares a few trail-tested tramping recipes. We started the Rakiura Coast Track fresh off the morning ferry, by turns elated and nauseous from the late September strait. Beginning the morning wide-legged and wind-whipped on the deck, keeping pace with the gulls and pretending to be old-timey sailors fresh with adventure, we were ready…

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