Poetry Shelf celebrates Airana Tikao’s Pepeha Portal – a review and a reading

By Poetry Shelf - Paula Green | Posted: Wednesday Jun 10, 2026

To read Pepeha Portal is uplifting. The poetry offers an experience that nourishes the air I breathe, the physical ground I stand upon, the metaphorical paths I navigate, the way I move between past present future, the way poems can hold me in prolonged and vital embrace.