To celebrate the arrival of Sylvan Spring’s debut poetry collection (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024), Sylvan shares three tracks from the collaborative album he made with friends – the album features poems from Killer Rack.

‘Exploding in Queer joy, this beautiful, visceral experience of a book is precise and magnificent in its craft, expansive and affecting in its content, somehow intimate and communal in the same breath, wild and compassionate. I fucking love this book and weep with gratitude and excitement every time I remember it’s in the world.’ —Pip Adam, author of Audition and Nothing to See

‘Dear Kim Sasabone from the Vengaboys’ Haz Forrester

‘if you were a body of water what would you be’ Jazmine Mary

‘colon’ Frazer Walker

Sylvan Spring is a Pākehā writer and occasional music maker who has been shaped by the lands and waters of Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. Their debut poetry collection, Killer Rack was released on February 8 by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

Te Herenga Waka University Press page

Bandcamp page – Sylvan performs poems from collection with friends. This is a collaborative album with a bunch of friends, featuring sonic interpretations of some of the poems from killer rack the book. any proceeds from the sale of the album will go to f’ine pasifika, to tautoko them in their support for mvpfaff+/pasifika lgbtqi+ people, particularly in navigating social services.

Sylvan in conversation with Pip Adam at Better off Read (Episode 138)