Lovely review from @franciscooke.bsky.social! landfallreview.com/my-word-agai...

Sign the petition: Keep Conservation Land in Public Ownership action.greens.org.nz/protect_cons...

My grape coloured boots get a mention! Along with Erik Kennedy’s paisley tie. And some books.

Brilliant live reporting by Claire Mabey - complete with remarks on what people were wearing (was my dress too nondescript??) - totally agree with best-dressed award going to Laura Vincent - she looked spectacular.

And I can make it more complicated. - Yanyi’s Catallus 85

Mad keen to read anything Jo Walton writes about science fiction and fantasy

A podcast PhD on the Gothic??? But why did no one tell me sooner??? This is very exciting.

Well look, you can attend Stephanie McCarter's talk on translating Catullus from the comfort of your own sofa! Complete with slides!

My favourite poem and why it is "drives and drops" by Amy Marguerite nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/05/12/p...

FREE EVERLEE WIHONGI "WE MUST SHOW UP! 📅 Sat 16 May ⏰ 1pm 📍 Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade – 23 Quay St, Akld DEMAND answers for Everlee. Demand Minister Peters ACT NOW. CAN’T ATTEND? Email the Minister immediately: 📧 [email protected] Tell him: Find Everlee Wihongi." @toitu_te_aroha

A reminder that no matter how daunting or big the problem might be, when people unite astonishing change is possible, via @amnesty.org #ClimateActionNow www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

"To be a Catullus person is to be almost violently opposed to Virgil...Was Virgil ever in complete misery at the sight of his cornfield, one wants to ask?"

winston peters told reporters that new zealander everlee wihongi has been in ICE prison for nearly a month because she didn't declare something on a form. the thing is - there *is no form*. please RT: www.webworm.co/winstonpeters/

Friday!!! At Britomart!!! Me interviewing Abi Dell’Avo and Jeremy Hansen and Abel Mercer and Emmy Rākete!!!

Not bored just thinking

"Poetic Architecture" by Harry Ricketts: If poems may be likened to rooms, and I think they can, some poets prefer walls and a door, others open plan.

“Because before I was a peer support worker, I was a patient.” amymarguerite.substack.com/p/on-lived-e...

I got to write about doing the MA last year, while hanging onto a job — just! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter... It can be done. For anyone that’s wondering. And it’s nuts, but you should do it!

Amber Esau: "language fuckery is one of the many ways we might shift the collective psyche towards learning how to sit with uncertainty and make space for each other."

If you read & loved "Charlie Tangaroa & the Creature from the Sea", please consider voting for the French edition www.generationmer.org/prix-littera... Google can translate the French so that you can read the citations. Here is the link to the voting page www.generationmer.org/prix-littera...

After the storm, the sunbathing

BOOM! This is a big win against destructive mining in the Coromandel. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Volume up for the tragedy of one minute away from dinner #cuddleUnit6

you do, really, really, want to see the twig houses

I’m smoking a CAMEL now and I have a big hole in my shoulder from washing away a lot of dirt. Are you there? there, are you? I am here and the storm is not enough, it should crash in and wet, there should be maelstrom where - Frank O'Hara, liszting

Sometimes the readings are even more starry than the poems

wild, wild poetry!

Sophie van Waardenberg on why her first books matters to her: "It’s a relief that it exists, because it means I never have to write my first book again."

Ok, so maybe you're not in the Metro Boston area and so can't do our Independent Bookstore Crawl, BUT there might be crawl near you! You can check here

Problems in part define the kind of work the writer chooses to do, and are not to be avoided but embraced. A writer, says Karl Kraus, is a man who can make a riddle out of an answer. - Donald Barthelme

Helen Rickerby's 'My Bourgeois Apocalypse' is full of intelligent passion and beautiful wisdom. Traces of Anne Carson, Lyn Hejinian, and so many marks of glorious engagement with life and its texts. One of my 2026 reading highlights, already, confidently so.

The Daily Not-Rothko is the line in the fallen leaves made by the wind from passing cars

The Daily Rothno is a weir on the River Tiber, Rome

The Walls of Trastevere as an alternative Daily Rothno #WallsOnWednesday

Whether you find asbestos exciting or frightening, its widespread use -- including in old buildings -- means we all need to learn how to breathe asbestos dust responsibly.

Ockhams Poetry category finalist Sophie van Waardenberg talks about her shortlisted collection #theockhams

But… how will we pay for it? (🧵 with words). This phrase is used to obfuscate, deflect and generally suppress progressive policy. Why don’t dentists help the thousands of people suffering with tooth ache? Why is shit pouring into the harbour when it rains? Why are people sleeping in tents... [1/n]

Dani Yourukova's brilliant review of Helen Rickerby's My Bourgeois Apocalypse: "trying to uncover its secrets is a bit like cracking open a disco ball: enormously pleasing, unlikely to work, and not entirely the point" www.takahe.org.nz/my-bourgeois...

This artwork is part of the "red series" of illustrations by artist and creative director Dora Abodi for her brand, ABODI Transylvania.

Broke: I am scared that bats will get in my hair. Woke: I know that bats are highly sensitive flyers who actively avoid getting in people’s hair. Bespoke: I want bats to lift up my hair in braids and fly me through the air. 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇

Thanks to Anne Kennedy for writing "Jewel's Darl" and to Georgina Beyer for embodying Jewel in the TV rendition. 💎 newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/04/c...

For any writers who use the English language, the Barbellion Prize is open for entries. There is no fee for entry. Please share with others who might be interested. barbellionprize.org

Easter could also be a great time to apply for the Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence with us: 3 months at the IIML with a mentor and a $15,000 stipend in the second half of 2026, deadline 30 May! (Picture shows 2025 EPWR Nafanua Purcell Kersel) www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Maeve, reading nzpoetryshelf.com/2020/01/30/p...

Here is my new series - need to work out how to get it back to normal size font for some reason it looks bigger like it is shouting!!! nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/04/03/p...

All the little fingertips and all the little toe-tips!

'Oxfam estimates that perhaps $3.55tn is still shielded from tax – Estimates from previous research suggest 80% of this wealth is likely to be owned by the richest 0.1% of households... this tiny group hold untaxed assets equivalent to the total wealth of the poorest half of the global population.'

Introducing this sparking book www.annajackson.nz/my-bourgeois...