[There’s a room]

There’s a room

that we keep finding ourselves in

and in that room

there’s a river

and in that river

there’s a voice

and in that voice

there’s a history of power

that we eat in black mouthfuls

barely coming up for breath.

Gregory Kan
from Under Glass, AUP, 2019

Gregory Kan is a writer and developer based in Pōneke/Wellington. His first collection of poetry, This Paper Boat, was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for poetry in 2017. Under Glass and Clay Eaters were longlisted for the award in 2020 and 2026. He was the 2017 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow.