Issue 7 / Spring 2017

Edited by Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle
Published August 2017
ISSN 2253-4873

Featuring: Craig Foltz, Anna Crews, Rachel O’Neill, Eden Bradfield, Ursula Robinson Shaw, Owen Connorsm Hana Pera Aoake, Rebecca Nash.

Art by Cat Fooks

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Editor’s note

A lot can happen in a month, & a lot can happen in 3 years. Whenever something goes on hiatus, I feel like there’s often a large chance it won’t resurface again. The last time an issue of Minarets came out it was autumn 2014. 3 years ago I was severely depressed, living in Auckland w/ my mum & then boyfriend. I remember reading poems for the launch of issue 6 in a Mt Eden park on a chilly afternoon. Shortly after, Chris (who edited Minarets & Compound Press) left for America to pursue an MFA, & things went quiet.

Minarets had built up into an alternative DIY outlet that championed openness & intensity in poetry, with a focus on but also including a few internat...