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Neither
Neither is the first collection of poems from Liam Jacobson (Kai Tahu). Written among the shadows of Tāmaki Makaurau, it honours fog and bus-rides, being broke, and public dreams. It's an intimate attempt to chronicle a long remembering among the city's blurring romance.
52 pages
Published January 1, 2023
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November 15, 2025Jacobson is a thrill, at best. He always seems at his best. Although even better when he gets up to read.
‘Day Melts Among Me.’
Knockout evocation of an Auckland flat, its flowery details, and how he’s paying for it.
WINZ fraud as an idea takes on more relevance than what I’ve heard from someone on the far opposite side of the income spectrum say of it, without loved experience.
In ‘Days Melt Among Me’ here’s the beautiful life (perspective) one on WINZ can afford. Magical surrealism, that allows everyday details to take on splendour.
(Read in L.J.’s thoughtfully lax cadence. This one was read at The Dowse with connection to place—Wellington’s got shitter shit damp flats like Auckland.)
‘Where’s the Day Gone?’
“Dont worry the rich’ll die poor as well, pour another bottle of piss, and piss it all over your day job.”
This one deserves to be adapted to hip-hop. Use of the phrase “the cause” Is like to be expanded so it’s clear what the cause is (I’m guessing “causeway”).
“Back thru the mosh pit that swallows me up like vomit.” A successful image, something many local poets can struggle to realise. Maybe I’m stricken by its strangeness, but you could get a lot of odd looks quoting it at a function. Here’s hoping L.J. has semen metaphors to… come.
‘Bus to K.’
Encyclopaedic exploration of the space between K road and L.J on a bus stopping and starting toward it. K Road reduced to a mythical “K.”
“Until the band stops playing.” Read as if ending a Bob Dylan song. And it rocked.
‘Day Melts Among Me.’
Knockout evocation of an Auckland flat, its flowery details, and how he’s paying for it.
WINZ fraud as an idea takes on more relevance than what I’ve heard from someone on the far opposite side of the income spectrum say of it, without loved experience.
In ‘Days Melt Among Me’ here’s the beautiful life (perspective) one on WINZ can afford. Magical surrealism, that allows everyday details to take on splendour.
(Read in L.J.’s thoughtfully lax cadence. This one was read at The Dowse with connection to place—Wellington’s got shitter shit damp flats like Auckland.)
‘Where’s the Day Gone?’
“Dont worry the rich’ll die poor as well, pour another bottle of piss, and piss it all over your day job.”
This one deserves to be adapted to hip-hop. Use of the phrase “the cause” Is like to be expanded so it’s clear what the cause is (I’m guessing “causeway”).
“Back thru the mosh pit that swallows me up like vomit.” A successful image, something many local poets can struggle to realise. Maybe I’m stricken by its strangeness, but you could get a lot of odd looks quoting it at a function. Here’s hoping L.J. has semen metaphors to… come.
‘Bus to K.’
Encyclopaedic exploration of the space between K road and L.J on a bus stopping and starting toward it. K Road reduced to a mythical “K.”
“Until the band stops playing.” Read as if ending a Bob Dylan song. And it rocked.
May 5, 2024
the perfect companion to my longstanding one sided love/hate affair w auckland
September 15, 2024
"I'd leave my body for you."- Liam Jacobson
Well! This took me by the most absolute surprise I have ever felt. It's at once a dizzying, dazzling, distressing, depressing, deliberately detailed, diabolically funny work. Just like Auckland, I must agree. Ode to all our invasive thoughts ever. And to loving infrastructure, places and people in all their "soapy wishing well" imperfections.
"I love everywhere I've hated this city from."- Liam Jacobson
Also ...damn. They got BARS!
Well! This took me by the most absolute surprise I have ever felt. It's at once a dizzying, dazzling, distressing, depressing, deliberately detailed, diabolically funny work. Just like Auckland, I must agree. Ode to all our invasive thoughts ever. And to loving infrastructure, places and people in all their "soapy wishing well" imperfections.
"I love everywhere I've hated this city from."- Liam Jacobson
Also ...damn. They got BARS!
December 21, 2024
I <3 Liam !
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