"Trailblazing women like Clodia have always, in the historian’s shorthand, been called 'ahead of their time.' But history deserves to be told from another point of view." My essay @time.com time.com/7326211/roma...

i love my trans whaanau they are everything / we will fight this a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves

Let's stamp this racist poll! 1/2 Link in thread #NZPol

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Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social

This conference programme looks spectacular.

One of the wonders of reading, writing and teaching fiction is seeing the truth that the supply of stories is inexhaustible. It's like discovering infinity in what might seem a finite space. There is always another fold in even familiar corners of the universe.

Climate friendly house, no pamphlets please, only kittens

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 love this series, where poets pick a favourite poem of theirs. How could Chris Tse choose just one? But this one is amazing, and revisiting it now after all Chris has written since, it seems richer and more riddled than ever: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/05/p...

An interview about what I love in the new poetry from Aotearoa, and a description of Te Whāriki, the book on NZ poetry I edited with Dougal McNeill and poet laureate Robert Sullivan: www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...

Anne Kennedy is a wonder.

Looking forward to seeing all those last minute applications for the 2026 MA workshop pouring in: if you're having any problems with yours, just contact us on [email protected]! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

1/2 If you wanna go and vote the shit outta this the link is in the thread #NZPol

Entries for the ABR’s Calibre Essay Prize are open. Prize money $10,000, closing 2 February 2026, essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject are sought. You can read the 2024 winning essay by Tracey Slaughter on the website.

The main stick Labour has had to beat Nats with for the last 20 months is "They gave $2.9Billion to landlords!" You will steal this insult from our cold dead hands! #NZPol

Should NZ spend $50B on roads to nowhere? E.g. 2nd Mt Victoria (car) tunnel in Wellington (3rd if you count the Mt Vic bus tunnel) has a BCR of 1.0, meaning that the government wants to spend $3.8 billion on a project with no net benefit. HT @thespinoff.bsky.social thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

Stuff doing a pretty big hatchet job on CGT, two separate polls! This one in the front page half way down, the link is in the Thread 1/2 #NZPol

This poll really needs attention too because they've been so obvious! 1/2 Link in Thread #NZPol

“Guidelines now focus on early adoption of the technology by students and schoolchildren. But what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot?" - Luc Steele, Professor of AI research

“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...

How are you struggling with your rates bill? Well don't you worry, Christopher Luxon is sorted! #NZPol

“The proposed desecration of a heritage area for purely monetary gain is an outrage to all of us, as it is to the citizens of Central Otago and to all New Zealanders.” - Gregory O’Brien

Crikey. 'the only holy land i know / is where life is.' poets.org/poem/ode-tho...

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!

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!

I was so moved to return to my Robin Hyde chapter and to support Mary Paul's drive to save Penham House. What can you do or add? nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...

Come vote for "Someone else" with me to mess up Bishop's numbers! #NZPol 1/2 Link in thread

I am spinning with excitement over this brilliant article!

In 2026 we are offering a new course on Climate Change Communication. You can study this important topic as part of a wider programme or as a standalone course, at undergraduate (SCIS 317) or postgraduate (SCIS 417) level. More info here, or ask me questions #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/scis...

Really so amazing to be reading alongside Erik Kennedy and Juanita Hepi!!!

NZ writers (and current MA students!), this is your reminder that the deadline for submissions to the 2025 edition of Turbine | Kapohau is coming up on 1 November. Please check out our submission guidelines and send us your work! turbinekapohau.org.nz

A petition to save art history as a school subject in Aotearoa, organised by high school students, but for everyone to sign (I have!): petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Been thinking it’s time to write your first book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction? Apply for the MA in Creative Writing at the IIML and have the support of a writing community, Deadline 1 November www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in. 📝166,000 submissions. ❌98.7% opposed. Yet National are going to continue supporting it. 🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

I love Oscar Upperton's idea of rhyme in poetry as a stealthy exclamation mark. But, I also like an unabashed exclamation mark! Or even a lot of ones! So beautiful! Like church bells! Just like they are supposed to be! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/4-p...

Beautiful dark twisty poem by Hinemoana Baker : “we live, which is / a dark disguise”

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). !

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

Poetry in Performance 2nd session Thurs 9 Oct with Gregory Kan, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective. Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-poet...

. The small god is still inventing himself Last week scarlet & pale then just a hint of blue always changing always a little overdue yesterday he was apples today mostly apples .

Sophie van Waardenberg on the sonnet: "For me, they’re good containers because you have to be a bit declamatory, a bit argumentative, and then you can betray yourself, you can cast doubt on the whole thing, you can shrug the whole thing off and go out into the sunlight." badapple.gay/2025/08/08/v...

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

Excellent launch speech for the new Nick Ascroft teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/i...

I always love a poem in which the poet names themself but this one is particularly brilliant: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...