UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is the author of a dozen poetry collections, and in his recently published series of Oxford lectures A Vertical Art: On Poetry,

Merging her work as an artist, mother and full spectrum doula, Holli McEntegart's project Inhabit brings together mothers and their infants to examine how community, cultural and whanau postpartum care has changed in Aotearoa.

The misconception that Māori have more privilege than Pākehā is kept alive today for the same reasons it evolved back in the 19th century – to maintain a cultural power imbalance, says historian Dr Peter Meihana. He explores how this centuries-old myth has been used to constrain Māori people in his short book Privilege in Perpetuity.

Have Maori been treated better than other indigenous peoples? Do they receive benefits that other New Zealanders do not? Many New Zealanders believe so, but it's something historian Dr Peter Meihana of Massey University challenges. The idea of 'Maori privilege', Meihana says, goes right back to the 18th century. It's used today, he argues in the same way it was in the 19th century: to maintain a power imbalance. Dr Meihana's short book Privilege in Perpetuity: Exploding a Pakeha Myth is published by Bridget Williams Books.

Cyclone Gabrielle resulted in major shifts in our waterways, causing significant damage - but it's in their nature for rivers to move.

As a beautiful young TV star in the 1990s, Gulchehra Hoja was important to the Chinese state: the acceptable face of China's Uyghur Muslim minority. Then in 2001, Hoja did an about-turn, fleeing to the United States and working with Radio Free Asia, reporting on human rights abuses. B

Whether it's the Auckland floods, European cultural erasure or youth crime Daniel Vernon's comics, art and music have become a go-to for smart, biting satire.

From humble beginnings as a teen dad in Heretaunga to heading Warren and Mahoney's Advanced Indigenous Design Unit, designer Whare Timu ( Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Arawa,  Ngāti Tuwharetoa) has come a long way.

In the race to create and release Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, are Silicon Valley companies such as OpenAI failing to fully consider the consequences of their work? The speed of development in the field is dizzying, with new tools such as ChatGPT and DALL·E offering a sneak peek at the potential of AI to work for us. Ethiopian born US computer scientist Dr Timnit Gebru is a leading researcher on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Swedish author Ann-Helén Laestadius is descended from a long line of reindeer herders, growing up in Kiruna, 145 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Her people are the Sámi, the indigenous people of Sweden and the wider region of Sápmi (formerly Lapland). Known previously as a young adult author, Laestadius' first book for adults Stolen has been a Swedish bestseller, and Book of the Year.