Photo credit: Sally Bollinger

Transposium, Dani Yourukova, Auckland University Press, 2023

The readings

Dana reads ‘Dark Academia’

Dana reads ‘Date idea: you commit a crime and then I hunt you relentlessly for seventeen years in the single-minded pursuit of bringing you to justice’

Dana reads ‘Everything is going to be fine forever’

Dana reads ‘Love poem for the space you thought to occupy’

Dani Yourukova is a queer Wellington writer with great hair and a bad personality who completed their MA in creative writing at The International Institute of Modern Letters. Their poetry and essays have been published in places such as Starling, Sweet Mammalian, Bad Apple, takahē, Stasis, Turbine | Kapohau and The Spinoff. Their debut collection, Transposium, is part philosophy thesis, part ancient Greek psychosexual fever dream, and it was published by Auckland University Press in October 2023.

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