Futa Helu / "The ocean of humanity is fed by the rivers of many cultures."

Murray Edmond, Caxton Press, 1988 Scott Hamilton Talks with Murray Edmond about His Eighties Masterpiece Town and Country Players perform Games We Play, a piece about the turmoil around the 1981 Springbok Tour of Aotearoa. From left to right: Murray Edmond, Anne Hunt, Ralph Johnson, and Janet Elepans. For five and a half decades Murray Edmonds has been one of Aotearoa's most innovative and interesting writers. This is part of an interview I did with the man during his recent

Andre Breton and Keiji, with notes by Scott Hamilton RS: This new translation of Andre Breton's poem Rano Raraku was supplied by Indonesian-Australian activist and linguist Keiji, whose translated documents from Indonesia's 2025 uprising were featured in an earlier Reef Shark post. Notes by Scott Hamilton follow the poem. Rano Raraku How beautiful the world is when Greece never existed when the Persians did not pass My horse is grazing at the bottom of a crater The bird-men f

Murray Edmond RS: Reef Shark will be running an interview next week with the important Aotearoan poet, scholar, fictioneer and dramaturge Murray Edmond. This is a new work by the author of Fool Moon and Shaggy Magpie Songs. A Ballad of 2026 Nostalgic for the mess we made and have now lost mud deep water brown white skins kauri logs floating down the little town’s beginnings materialized at 2am as if the 1970s were back in sepia in the motel of dreams my eyes pirouette a drown