i made a substack & i think i am going to make it my new blog? i have missed blogging. helene appel's dirty sink paintings are the only thing on there right now & that seems right. substack.com/@amymarguerite

Q&A with my beautiful mother in the summer issue of Multiple News Magazine. 💗

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody. — Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks (1964-1980)

as soon as blair made a lost cat post & popped it on our local facebook community page our lost cat jumped through the window almost as though she'd seen the post & realised we were worrying & that was really quite good of her & apparently she was squatting under someone's deck & not loving it

i actually wrote a poem i actually really like it's actually because i was moving house this actually always happens why & actually why not

"This should be an annual day of remembrance for the public, where survivors are honoured and everyone else is asked to remember what happened to them. It is the abusers and their enablers who should be reflecting on their actions and what changes are needed."

incoherent rambling aside please check out issue one of this journal, I'm so proud of it, issue two will be up in the new year! www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one

The Friday Poem: ‘As Fuck’ by Anny Trolove

Spend 5 minutes on LinkedIn and tell me unchecked capitalism is working. People desperately trying to leverage personal trauma for engagement, "professionals" airing half-baked + hateful political views, managers you've seen bully people for years dispensing trite leadership tips. It's cooked.

I love Starling - some of my favourite poems in Starling I later saw into print when editing selections for the AUP New Poets series, others I have taught in class. These four poems from Starling are wonderful, surprising choices - which Starling poem would you choose?

Have you fully recovered from an eating disorder and/or cared for someone with an ED? Would you like to use your lived experience to support other individuals in treatment/recovery? If so, come & join me as a peer support worker at the Specialist ED Service in Hamilton!! jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website. Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

"I hope lines from some of the poems will run randomly through their heads when they least expect them, and images from the poems will appear in their dreams."

Didn’t quite make the deadline to apply for the MA in Creative Writing? Good news: we’ve extended it until Friday. It’s not too late to come and write your poetry/fiction/creative nonfiction/script with us next year!

Here’s a poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social I think about at least once a week:

Not really scary, but it's witchy librarians! This photo was taken on Halloween 1975, so happy 50th to this image! 📷Witches at the library, 1975, © Christchurch Star, CCL-StarP-02476A. www.canterburystories.nz/collections/...

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse artsfuse.org/319349/weekl...

Looking good at Unity @dougalmcneill.bsky.social

Totally agree. Another good thing Matt Doocey has done is introduce peer support roles into specialist eating disorder services across Aotearoa.

Te Whāriki launches this Friday! At Unity, Wellington, 6pm, with readings by poets including Chris Tse, Joanna Cho, Amelia Kirkness and Tru Paraha. There will be wine! And cheese! All welcome!

As someone who deals with chronic pain, I think this piece of writing is wildly beautiful & important. Thank you so much, @drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social. ❤️ "Sometimes I suffer. Sometimes I don’t. Only I get to say if so. Though if I speak, stigma may follow."

Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa, edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert Sullivan will be launched at Unity Books (Wgtn) on Friday at 6. Enjoy readings from some of the featured poets and essayists, and some lively conversation about NZ poetry!

It makes me uncomfortable, my story—part insight, part anecdote—started by unreliable people at cross-purposes. And which photographs didn’t get saved? And which photographs didn’t get taken? I never figured out who named the cat but everyone took credit for it. — Richard Siken, Hearsay

J. H. Prynne

Grateful to Nicola Andrews for this generous and open review of our book. Love to follow the conversation as it goes along in the world . www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

yeah im bisexual, im attracted to bisexuals and lesbians

we'll give ya something to exclaim about! 4 new Adam Soldofsky poems! https://www.havehashad.com/c3nun

“And does she still write poems? Not a whole one since I had been ill. Five years. I kept saying I was Doing it privately. So private even I didn’t know about it.” From “Cave Painting” by Patricia Lockwood in our Fall issue. buff.ly/hakZf32

Out in the world, our book celebrating the swerve poetry has taken towards exuberance, intimacy, eroticism, artistry and a gaudy beauty! I especially love the artist statements by the featured poets (Oscar Upperton: a rhyme is a way of getting an exclamation mark into a poem by stealth). !

Our book is released today. It's edited following the "grand elementary principle of pleasure". I love all the poems and critical essays we've gathered together, found much insight & delight in my co-editors' insights as poets, & hope youse can too. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/

We do owe each other a living! Like the planet doesn't care but the world as it is made up of humans SHOULD CARE. I find it so repugnant that we are giving 18 and 19 years olds more reasons to think we don't care about them.

A gorgeous new Maia Armistead poem! "Is it possible / to be wrong about a world you don’t / believe in?"

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Nice piece in today’s Post … #nzmusic www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

We seem to be awash in book launches here at ELCC! Please join us on 24 October for "Te Whāriki," edited by Dougal McNeill, Anna Jackson, and Robert Sullivan

Our book gets launched in Wellington in a few weeks and youse are all welcome. The Tokyo launch is in November!

Applications are now open for the Toi Pōneke d/Deaf and Disabled Artist Development Residency 2026. This eight-week residency (16 Feb – 12 April 2026) offers a studio space, stipend, and mentor support. Applications close 5pm, Monday 17 November 2025. Find out more and apply here:

Daylight saving is here, it feels like spring, maybe you should grab a copy of the Sunday Star Times and catch up on what the ELCC programme's poet and lecturer Anna Jackson has been reading? www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3608...

A new release is available from Hon Matt Doocey.

Ahem - we'd just like to point out that if you would like to write your book alongside a cohort of supportive others, and with the guidance of a supervisor (aka mentor), applications for our 2026 MA in Creative Writing are open until 1 November.... www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Writers of Aotearoa, his is your reminder that Turbine | Kapohau 2025 is open for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction until 1 November - check out the submission guidelines and send us your work!

Spring has sprung 😎Canterbury is the place to be! Featured poets Janet Charman, Jake Arthur, Gregory Kan, Anna Jackson, Mikaela Nyman with local legends Melanie McKerchar, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong, Erik Kennedy, Juanita Hepi, Frankie McMillan and Sara Qasem. canterburypoets.org.nz/tickets/

"A poem can / survive things a body / can’t." !!! ❤️

i will hold this review of over under fed, this rush of feeling, courage & understanding, in my body forever. thank you, lovely hebe 💗 & thanks also to the nz poetry society for publishing this review in the winter issue of a fine line. 🪿 www.poetrysociety.org.nz/2624-2/

"There's no next life just this little mouse." From Eileen Myles's Instagram.

Writing is just what I do to frame my longing. Eileen Myles, Inferno

You don’t have to destroy yourself to write a poem. You can pretend you have a field in your chest. Unbutton your shirt to better hear the birds singing. Oh no what is your mom doing there. Why is she driving away in a teal car. And the trees are filled with fathers weeping.

My winter reading highlights - from Solvej Balle to Karl Ove Knausgaard: www.annajackson.nz/enthusiasms....

Poets Amy Marguerite (MA22) and Sophie van Waardenberg are in town to join Emma Barnes in conversations and readings from their new books in Writers on Mondays at Te Papa, 1215 today!

Starling Issue 20 out now!! New work from 20 writers under 25! Plus one of our OG favourites Sophie van Waardenberg as guest author, a look back on 10 years of Starling writing with 20 more all-stars, and cover art from Loretta Riach (also a featured poet)! All live here: www.starlingmag.com