Lockdown
Nexus Mag

quaran-teen again

QUARANTINE DIARIES So I have spent over a week in self-isolation and I am coping a lot better than I thought I would. I didn’t expect to be doing as well as I am. I am not insanely bored as I have things to entertain me such as watching YouTube,

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Reo Tauira
Nexus Mag

Te Noho Mohoao

REO TAUIRA Last week Aunty Jacinda called it and now it is our new reality for the foreseeable future. Lockdown. But life goes on! UOW students have now come off the one-week semi breather known as teaching suspension and classes and assignments have ramped up again albeit all in an

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Columns
Nexus Mag

Spin VS Pace Bowling

THIS VS THAT SPIN BOWLING Listen, I’m not the most knowledgeable man about cricket, but from what I can gather spin bowling is the way to go. Shane Warne, Dan Vettori, Muttiah Muralitharan, all of them great New Zealanders. What do these men have in common? Putting. Revs. On. The.

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Horoscopes
Nexus Mag

Horoscopes – Issue 5

AQUARIUS JAN 20 – FEB 18 Your powers of conversation are effectively useless at the moment and your housemates are tired of your diatribes about 5G. If it weren’t for the internet you would be out looting. PISCES FEB 19 – MAR 20 When the going gets weird, the Pisces

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Mullet of the Week
Nexus Mag

Mullet of the Week – Issue 5

Mullet Of The Week Nexus: Hi! Do you want to run us through who you are and where you’re from? Hannah: I’m Hannah and I’m from Denver, Colorado. I’m living on a farm right now down in Maheno in the South Island. I lived in Denver for about 10 years,

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Recipes
Nexus Mag

Couch Potato – Issue 5

HUNGOVER + HUNGRY Has being on lockdown put you in a state of permanent couch-bound relaxation? Or are the rations getting low, forcing you into potato-based nourishment? Whatever the case, these recipes are sure to see you and the rest of the flat/family through these dark times by making use

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Lockdown
Nexus Mag

Leaving london

QUARANTINE DIARIES Friday 27th March  –  Until 12 days ago I lived in London and had no intention of moving back to NZ. I had a visa until July 2021. I had a stable job. I had a flat to live in. It was a normal Saturday. Saturday 14th March 

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Lockdown
Nexus Mag

Life as a Weak link

QUARANTINE DIARIES I’m built for disaster. I say that entirely from the safety of my first world existence, from the comfort of my desk, but most of me believes that should the world genuinely turn to shit, I’d be one of the rangers crisscrossing the wasteland.  In reality, no matter

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Poetry
Nexus Mag

Dadon Rowell

NEXUS CREATIVE SPACE I want my poems to hurt you  cut your cheeks like a Sheffield razor  make you cry like the day you punched   her bedroom wall –   she should have framed it  shown it to your mother  taken a photo with your Leica M3   and

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