Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute

Book: Some Helpful Models of Grief

By Hana Pera Aoake

September 11, 2025

A composite chronicle of various lovesdesired, lost, or never realisedand their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake’s characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and humour, often all within the very same breath. The personal is the political is the personal.