Clan Destine Press Blog — Lee Murray

Lee Murray talks with us about her Clamour and Mischief story "Kūpara and Tekoteko," while also offering a reading of "Kūpara and Tekoteko on our YouTube channel – have a listen! What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while researching your story? One interesting thing I learned was that here in Aotearoa New Zealand, our raven has no name of its own. The reason for this is because the large black songbird (of which there were three subspecies concentrated mainly in the lower South Island and Chatham Islands) has been extinct for several centuries, and its name lost to...