Age oƒ Orpah

Age oƒ Orpah is a collection of poetic narratives & dissident poetry. She's the final fantasy - last bastion - fierce pōtiki - lil sister of a beautifully polemic trinity & now she's following her big sisters Hibiscus & Dea†h Goddess into the infinite centre! 

Our tīmā is

• Rin Smeaton (that's me folks)
• Titus Books (that's our girls' publisher)
• Kansas Smeaton (our stunning artist)

We're raising money to cover basic publication costs.

• Paper
• Ink
• Printing
• Editing
• Art
• Design and layout
• Cover design
• Marketing
• Publicity
• Distribution costs

Orpah scoops up our fragile world gasping for air into her loving arms & spits out its denials into the depths of te moana-nui-a-kiwa

Rabbi might call her a lil hussy but she's more than that - much much more! She remembers resistances  to injustice in Aotearoa, Canaan and Red Crescent camps

Through Orpah you can watch these far flung worlds converge 

Punk press - Titus Books - wants to publish Orpah early next year :) we're humbly asking you to hustle with us & help raise funds for our new girl on da block x times are tight x money is even tighter but lil Orpah is still hard out weaving land sea & sky & with a lil awhi she might just hitch up her skirtz into her shiny tiny golden bikini & take us along 4 the ride!

An ocean too deep?

A river too wide?

A Mission impossible?

Kao! Never!

4 ever & always

it's over to us 

the world x

Orpah resists and challenges the status quo in style, form and language like no other hussy! 

She's relentlessly political, unashamedly global, undeniably femme, proudly river to the sea, sufficiently armed (with a pen of course) and she will stand up to anyone who does her dirty like the Oslo accord. 

Here's what cool literary influencers & reviewers say about her big sister Death Goddess Guide To Self Love:

“This is poetry that knows who its ideal readers are, and it is not afraid to say that some people are not its ideal readers. And this determination is one of many reasons why it really should be read.”  - Erik Kennedy, Landfall Review Online

“Smeaton effectively wields and expands the potential poetic meaning even in locked down narratives throughout this collection” - Josiah Morgan, Bad Apple Gay

“This was pure magic! I read it from cover to cover and then repeated the entire experience over again! ” - ns510reads, Instagram