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Yvette Thomas

Yvette Thomas has a Master of Creative Writing: First Class Honours (University of Auckland 2023). She won the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2022 for her poem “Not What You Wanted”, which featured in Landfall (Otago University Press, Spring 2022) and in the anthology No Time To Lollygag (Caselberg Press 2023). Her short story “The Lost One” was published in JAAM (NZ 2003) and Pendulum (Wishbone Press, Australia 2003). Yvette is also the winner of the Kendrick Smithyman Scholarship in Poetry 2023 and the Shimon Weinroth prize in Poetry 2023.

Three Poems 2024 SummerT3POETS

Three Poems

ALLEGIANCE   It takes patience to live with an octogenarian— would have been simpler to drop her at Fairway Gardens or Coronation Lodge, let her see out her days playing bowls, watching matinees, bingo on Tuesdays.   But our Filipino roots would not allow it— our customs, chromosomes, deoxyribonucleic acid;…
Yvette Thomas
November 17, 2024