Rebecca Hawkes is from a farm near Methven. She now roams the slopes of Wellington, occasionally painting but mainly ghostwriting PowerPoint slides. She writes poems about flesh industries, human beastliness, and joyous weeds.
Rebecca’s first chapbook ‘Softcore coldsores’ launched in 2019 in AUP New Poets 5, reviving the series alongside collections by Carolyn de Carlo and Sophie van Waardenberg.
She is a member of popstar poets’ collective Show Ponies and edits the online journal Sweet Mammalian. Rebecca was a 2018 Verb x Starling Micro-Resident and is the recipient of the 2019 Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship.
Rebecca comments: ‘This poem has gotten me serially informed that “vomitorium” (for the record) actually means “exit” rather than “puking room”, but that meaning doesn’t not work in the poem. Or the easy colloquial misconception may even make it work better, as a bonus joke for hot nerds. I love poems as a form of play and the gimme gimme repetition helps keep this rollicking like a giggly lullaby of hungers.’
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Photographer credit: Jasmine Chalmers