Machine-generated contents note: Introduction -- Road Trip / Freddie Gormack-Smith -- Our Generation / Megan Foster -- In the 2000s/ Blue T-bars and Bubble Yum / Georgia Jennings -- Purple is a Relaxing Colour / Amelia Kirkness -- Good Times / Arishma Prakash -- The Happiness Problem / Finlay Langelaan -- Option Choices / Luca Frame -- Standardising Schools / Derrin Smith -- How it Feels when People Ask Me What I'm Going to do when I Graduate / Charlotte Boyle -- Cactus Towns / Amelia Fairlie -- Two-Shot Caramel Latte / Helaina Witten -- Seasons / Annalyse Welford -- Fingerpainting / Linea Simons -- The Princess and the P / Cuba Rust -- Alright / Jordan Rogers -- aWake / Finlay Langelaan -- The Path of Water / Kyla Lee -- Waiting / Kendra Fleming -- Sherlock Holmes' Wife / Xavier Dickason -- But Satisfaction Brought it Back / Charlotte Boyle -- The Bird in the Tree / Charlotte Williams -- The Grey Truck / Aria Oliver -- Service Stations and Other Liminal Spaces / Cian Sutherland -- Neck Deep / Isabella Hadlow -- The SentientLexicon / Rebecca Kingswell -- Eight Ways of Looking at the Moon / Zoe Roche -- Astronauts / Zoe Ambrose -- The Astronomer / Cadence Chung -- A Tarot Reading for the Distracted / Gilbert Levack -- Pisces / Olivia Wong -- The Cellist / Isabella Radka -- Blue-Eyed Superpower / Isla Thomas -- The Island / Teo Rezende -- A Three-Part Disharmony for Tinfoil Hats / Elizabeth Steel -- The Werewolf Game / Zachariah Marshall -- Sweet Dreams / Samantha Jory-Smart -- Arguing Against Association / Brigit Kelly -- The Recipe / Amina Khalid -- Eco Chamber / Kate Twomey -- Nibbles / Freddie Gorrnack-Smith -- Reduce, Re-use, Recycle / Elizabeth Steel -- Sonnet -- 18: Shall I compare Thee to a Monday Morn? / Miru Shimaoka -- Ophelia / Nicola Bicknell -- Fears / Michelle Skovlund -- From the Vantage Point of a Couch / Brigit Kelly -- Rare Earth / Isabella Hadlow -- Mrs Gren / Shaneka Munslow -- His Name was Edwin, when I Knew Him / Cuba Rust -- The Power We Hold / Jonathan Brook -- The Puppeteer / Zoe Roche -- The Avalanche / Zoe Ambrose -- The Loud and Silent Night / Adelaide Perry -- Rest in Paddock / Georgia Prosser -- Scuff Marks on the Kitchen Floor / Charlotte Boyle -- Bitter Lemons / Arishma Prakash -- Envy in Orange / Freddie Gormack-Smith -- 29,000 Feet / Celia Allen -- Precious Metals / Sasha Finer -- A Graveyard for a World / Kyla Forbes-Kean -- Concrete Bones / Isabella Hadlow -- The Supermarket / Zachariah Marshall -- No Barricades in these Civilised Places / Caitlyn Penney -- The Most Ordinary Person in the World / Grace White -- Greed / Gilbert Levack -- A Litany of Autumn Leaves / Adelaide Perry -- Lord Highly Commended / Miru Shimaoka -- The Fountain of Contemporary Youth / Sasha Finer -- Oxygen / Bella Perano -- Brown Study / Amelia Kirkness -- Hold on to Anything / Cian Sutherland -- Memoryall / Charlotte Williams -- Ads / Zachariah Marshall -- Cage in the Wall / Arishma Prakash -- Bootleg Buffy / Simon Brown -- Dear Vincent / Myah Kemsley -- (untitled) / Valentina Turner-Buchanan -- The Rain that Poured/The Sun that Shone / Eve Reihana -- When You Left / Valentina Turner-Buchanan -- Waltz / Gabriella Cumming -- Can I Borrow Your Jacket / Elizabeth Milne -- I Met her in the Fabric Aisle of Daiso / Isabel Chen -- When She Burns / Meche Phillips -- To Burn Bridges / Elizabeth Milne -- Waves / Alice Park -- Sonder / Alex Leckie-Zaharic -- How to Wear Blue Jeans / Kyla Lee -- Keep in Touch / Isabel Li -- Starcrossed / Ananya Ahluwalia -- About a Girl / Mia Venmore -- Daisy Chains / Olivia Bradfield -- Alive, Alive, Alive / Elena Hadlow -- 'The Second Time / Sophie Armstrong -- Base 2 / Jojo Lee -- Seven Words / Pieta Bouma -- Garden of You / Aimee Norrie -- Mirrors, Raindrops, and Kyoto Jones / Cadence Chung -- Here I Sit / Taylah Collinson -- Sol -- Selene -- Andromeda / Olivia Bradfield -- Deerly Departed / Celia Allen
Summary:
Collection of poetry and short stories written by teenagers conveying the attitudes of young New Zealanders. Suggested level: senior secondary.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.