Rebecca Hawkes

Biography

Rebecca Hawkes is the author of Meat Lovers (Auckland UP, 2022) and the chapbooks Softcore Coldsores (AUP New Poets 5, 2019); Hardcore Pastorals (Cordite, 2021); and HIDE (Ngā Pukapuka Pekapeka, 2026). She edits Sweet Mammalian. Her forthcoming collection is Fool’s Spring (Auckland UP and Yes Yes Books, 2027).

See Work

POETRY / Summer 2026

Disco Inferno

By Rebecca Hawkes

The strippers threw an art show at the community gallery.
Apportioning the boxed wine at the opening, we all wore
protest stickers feminists had plastered on the windows—

POETRY / Summer 2026

Gelding Requiem

By Rebecca Hawkes

I rode him for years, my enemy.
That red horse fated to the back
paddock and dog food factory,

POETRY / Summer 2026

L’Origine du Monde

By Rebecca Hawkes