Just finished reading my first book of the year. ‘Northbound’ tells the story of @naomiarnold.bsky.social’s epic four-season trek on the Te Araroa trail. SO good, that I’m now listening to the audiobook, read by the author herself! 🥳 ❤️🇳🇿📚

shel silverstein was a prophet

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‘the inexpressible nothing’ ✨

‘The way I found Of opening a poem I took From the way he walked into a field.’ 🌾

‘So much light in what we call the dark’ ⚡️

A new grant! Te Waka Taki Kōrero – Māori Literature Trust invites submissions from mid-career Māori writers seeking to undertake development opportunities between February – May 2026. There are two grants available to the value of $6,000 each. Deadline 30 Jan 2026.

I visited the Penguin Books Australia studio recently and made a little video about how to draw Beans! Hope you like it :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALr...

‘like otters wrapped in kelp’ 🦦

‘poems skinned free of poets’ ⚡️

‘In a field I am the absence of field.’ 🦠

‘Time and instants glitter in the running stream’ ✨

‘and she’s still not coming home.’ 😮‍💨

A long journey for this book begun in the MA16 workshop and just published by OUP: 'the lively and frequently jaw-dropping story of Alan and Joan MacLeod’s 1963 journey from Dunedin to the Isle of Skye in Scotland with their six children, aged five to fifteen.' www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/interview...

‘But spooning is even better.’ ☝🏽

The judges for the 2026 NZCYA Book Awards have been announced! 🥳 www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

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Wow, the photo they selected was a *choice* 💀 Palmy Proud is described as “a brag book” highlighting “the best of Palmerston North” with new issues of the magazine coming out twice a year and being distributed around town and other major centres. [1/5] #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🌈📚🇳🇿📚💙🔎💀📚👀📚🌎🌈✒️

‘I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.’ ⚓️

‘bed of eyes and leaky pens’ 🖊️

‘at your bedside, scattered citrus rinds, the cat, the scent of clementines.’ 🍊

‘Only tremors, sweetness on the tongue’🍬

‘No one wants to talk about the hilarity after death’ ⚡️

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‘as though one bean could nourish us.’ 🫛

‘Away from the too-rough fingers of the world.’ 🌤️

First starred review - bit chuffed about that ❤️

‘I am smudged and chaotic’ 🫟

‘He manages like somebody carrying a box that is too heavy.’ 📦

‘What astonishes is the singing.’ 🎶

‘Most things have vanished while we were talking’ 🫥

An incredible shortlist! Vote for your fave and if you fancy it vote for How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train by me and @jessbradley.bsky.social 👵🏽🧪

‘She was probably right about me getting strange.’ 🦤

Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.

‘Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles’ ⚡️

‘Tenderness does not choose its own uses.’ 🌼

We're delighted to be publishing What to Wear in February next year, a new poetry collection by Jenny Bornholdt, one of Aotearoa's most-loved poets. More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...

‘the terror of being just one person’ 🍃

‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ 🪶

‘Someone organizes hurt by color’ 🎨

‘A mower parted the bronze sea of corn’ 🌽

❤️ Palmy!

‘all that was ever seen was a shoe’ 💔

'What we need is here.' 🙌🏽

‘The world is not illusory, we are’ 🍃

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‘I lie here in a riot of sunlight’ 🔆

'Whistling their whims on a low fence- wire’ 🐦‍⬛

‘dead leaves On their way to the river Scratch like birds at the window’ 🍂

‘My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.’ 💞