‘That is what I keep coming back to: our lives and our futures are interdependent.’ ☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽

‘May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities.’ ☝🏽

‘Winter unbundles a sack of storms’ 💨

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 ‘Funny books can often be dismissed as fart jokes and silliness but look beneath, and you’ll find that these are stories that cleverly navigate tricky topics and emotions by intertwining the dark with the light.’ @swapnahaddow.bsky.social

‘And a fountain empties itself into the grass.’ 💦

‘A dead person passes through me’ ⚡️

‘you are most alive among those still in sight’ ❤️

‘it is animal’ ❤️

‘I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.’ 🫥

‘My mother wears her wrinkles the way an ocean wears a wave.’ 🌊

If only I was in ChCh! 🤩

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A great loss. 😔 ❤️ her kōrero: ‘The problem, now as then, is that when we know only one culture and one language we live in that world, like fish live in water, taking it for granted that this is the way that things are, and this is the way things ought to be’☝🏽

Pics from last night's Ngaio Marsh Awards and Murderous Mystery with the Court Jesters. www.flickr.com/photos/chris... #WORDChch #YeahNoir #Pukapuka ^DR Check out our lists of Ngaio Marsh Awards winners & finalists: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/ngaio-marsh-...

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‘A flurry of dancing lace’ ❄️

‘To be so lost in this radiant wilderness.’ 🍃

‘a reckoning is rumored on the wind.’ 🍃

‘I saw my reflection and it startled me’ 😳

‘Wild strawberries and cream in the morning.’ 🍓

‘The house is cold and the list is long.’ ❄️

All manu are winners #boty #BirdOfTheYear Here is a tauparapara that celebrates birds: Korihi te manu Takiri mai te ata Ka ao, ka ao, ka awatea Tehei mauriora The bird sings, the dawn unfurls. The day becomes brighter and brighter until the full light of day has dawned. Breath of life.

‘this white & provocative space.’ 📑

‘while the house sulked, the sky scolded’ ☔️

Insightful Radio NZ essay by uber-talented Aotearoa author, David Hill, on the importance of listening to stories. Check it out! ❤️🇳🇿📚 www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...

❤️ the Karalus ’āiga! ❤️ Kirikiriroa! 🥳

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/13/s... Story up!

‘ambush of amazement’ ☄️

Yes, folks, exciting times as the 2nd in my thriller series, titled 'Revenge and Rabbit Holes', is launched at Unity Books, Wgtn on 1st October 6-7.30pm. I'd love to see you there. Blurb and preorders at thecubapress.nz/shop/revenge... #pukapuka #aonzbooks #aotearoabooks #nzbooks #booksnz

Final session of the Storylines NZ Waikato Tour, with the fab new Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador, Kate Di Goldi. Best end to the best week! 🤩 ❤️🇳🇿📚

The Storylines NZ Waikato Tour writers & illustrators at Te Waihou Blue Springs yesterday. What a place! What a crew! 🤩🤩🤩 ❤️🇳🇿📚

Another great day on ⁦‪⁦‪Storylines‬⁩’ Waikato story tour. Thanks, Rototuna, Whatawhata & Raglan! 🤩 ❤️🇳🇿📚

Fun visits to Pekapekarau & Ōtorahanga South primary schools today, as part of the fabulous Storylines NZ Waikato Story Tour. Looking forward to tomorrow’s visits already! 🤩 ❤️🇳🇿📚

Just 13 hours to go! Please support this vital Storylines NZ mahi, connecting NZ writers/illustrators/storytellers with our tamariki & rangatahi. Storytelling by NZers, for NZers. Every little bit helps! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🥳 ❤️🇳🇿📚 www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/make...

Hello! My sixth book, and the second in the Violet and the Velvets series, illustrated by the talented Phoebe Morris, is out today in New Zealand and Australia in all good bookshops! It’s got punk rock, kids and ghosts. Who needs more? @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social #pukapuka #kidlit #middlegrade

WORD is on the street, literally! #WORDChch Festival is on next week, Weds 27 August to Sun 31 August 2025. A team of intrepid library bloggers will be reporting back, and they have made some session picks if you aren't sure what to go to. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/explore/?pos... ^DR

We Read Auckland is happening from tomorrow 1st August 2025! Free event listing here: www.eventfinda.co.nz/literary/eve... #pukapuka

‘The way we have been, the way we sometimes are.’ 🫶🏽

‘Between objects and desire.’ 🫶🏽

‘small flashing windmills cultivating an energy of their own.’ 💥

‘even a small child knows the affliction of language.’ 💥

‘Desires as round as peaches’ 🍑

‘A poem begins with a lump in the throat’ 🫶🏽

❤️ Kirikiriroa!

Why Not? by me, #DaronParton and #ScholasticNZ is out TODAY! 🎉🎉🎉 It’s our second picturebook celebrating the joy of libraries. Do support your local indie bookshop if you are buying a copy 🙏🏾 bookhub.co.nz/p/why-not-th... #pukapuka

‘The only sound’s the weep Of promises And sleep.’ 🤍

‘The world is already heavy enough.’ ☝🏽

‘We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power’ 🫣

Landing Press is calling for food poems. Join me for a couple of poetry workshops at Puke Ariki Library. Limited spaces. Check out more on Puke Ariki’s website and links below: 🍎🍇Wed 25 June | 3.30pm-5pm | bit.ly/43QO4Xn 🥦🥕Mon 30 June | 9.30am-11am | bit.ly/4kHcnhB

‘what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ 🔥