Looking forward to the Alandic Bookfair 2025 / Åländsk bokmässa 2025. Will be in conversation with Aino Waller about my poetry collection The Anatomy of Sand, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press this year. Organisers: Ålands Litteraturförening and Föreningen Norden på Åland 🇦🇽🇫🇮

This year's Sot Sot Storian (microfiction) competition saw sign language celebrated as a first for Vanuatu. 🇻🇺 Wonderful to be part of this initiative! Check out the latest issue of Flash Frontier at: flashfrontier.com/sot-sot-stor... flashfrontier.com/sot-sot-stor...

Taranaki festival time! ‘Ten artists, one location’ at the fabulous Gover St gallery in New Plymouth. Open 9 to 5:30pm all days during the Taranaki Arts Trail and Garden Festival weeks from 31 Oct to 9 Nov 😎

Delighted to announce that acclaimed poet Tusiata Avia MNZM has been appointed Creative NZ / Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence for 2026, and will be joining us at the IIML next year to work on her next book! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Inspiring collaboration with photographer Marcus Boman 4 years ago. Translated my granddad Valdemar Nyman’s poem and all the text into English for Boman’s artistic photo book I AM. Launched at the 2021 Helsinki Book Fair. Part of #Åland100, celebrating 100 years of autonomy 🇦🇽

At the 2025 Helsinki Bookfair with Helen Heath, in spirit. Or at least under/between cover(s). My 2022 essay & translation of Helen Heath’s poems from Are Friends Electric? Published in Ellips fabulous lilla-e (little e) series (pictured). If in Helsinki - swing by the Bookfair this weekend!

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

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!

Poetry in Performance / Final blast /Thursday 23 Oct with Frankie McMillan, Sara Qasem and I + open mic - can’t wait! Brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective. Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-9-oc...

Such a pleasure to run an ekphrastic poetry workshop at the beautiful Maia Gallery at Toihoukura in Gisborne today. A big thank you to Regina de Wolf-Ngarimu for organising and to artist Merle Walker for your stunning art and kōrero about your intention and thought process. 💜

Off on NZSA business! In awe of what Tairawhiti Writers Hub in Gisborne has put on over their ten day Hui Kaituhi writers festival. Teaming up w Reg de Wolf-Ngarimu for a fun ekphrastic poetry wshop at Toihoukura - School of Maori Visual Art & Design Sat 18 Oct events.humanitix.com/art-poetry-e...

Thrilled to hear that PhD grad Lynn Jenner has won the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for her manuscript ‘The Gum Trees of Kerikeri’, described as 'a collection set in Te Tai Tokerau Northland that reflects on place, history and belonging through finely observed details.' Congratulations, Lynn!

Poetry in Performance / Take 3 / Thursday 16 Oct with Anna Jackson, Juanita Hepi, and Erik Kennedy + 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-23-o...

Insightful on peacebuilding & healing on day 1 of the Collective Trauma Summit 2025. A political solution for Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine is not enough - people & communities need healing. The arts and creative thinking have a role to play in embodied healing, in bearing witness to victims’ stories.

Tomorrow at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 11:30 - 12: farewelling He Tukutuku Auahatanga: Maureen Lander & Community exhibition with a reading by our latest NZ Poet Laureate Robert Sullivan + free eco-poetry wshop at 2pm at Puke Ariki. Limited spaces. Book at pukeariki.com/event/E29794...

East coast, people - it will be epic! The 2025 Tui Tui Tuhia Tairāwhiti Hui 9-12 Oct is sold out but the Hui Kaituhi fringe fest continues next week 13-19 Oct. Looking fw to catching up w friends and being part of the fringe fest fun! 🤩 Check out the packed programme: authors.org.nz/about/tekait...

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...

Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque. Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol

Scored a typewriter - to go with my grandmother’s unpublished(!) novel manuscript. Who knew! Found the original MS for her novel Färjan (1954) published by Schildts in Finland. Of course journos had to ask if her husband had helped her… 🙄The answer was NO.

Poetry in Performance kicks off today 2 Oct with Open mic and a trio of poetic firepower - see Jake Arthur, Janet Charman and Melanie McKerchar live in Ōtautahi - or join via Zoom. More poetry for the people! 😎 Tickets $10 at the door or via Humanitix events.humanitix.com/poetry-in-pe...

That thing around our necks has a name. Stop genocide now! 🇵🇸

www.kuputoitakataapui.com/publications Also have put this up on the Kupu Toi Takataapui website - comes from some of the work I did for my thesis. Would love to build a more comprehensive list of queer Maaori fiction and poetry with you all <3

Delighted to be part of The BIG Exhibition w 30 artists at Gover St Gallery in New Plymouth - and part of the Taranaki Fringe festival (Ten artists, one location). OPENING NIGHT this Friday 26th Sept from 6pm at Gover St Gallery. All welcome! Bring your friends, it was a blast last year. 😎

Such inspiring speakers on politics, law, health & arts. Whakapapa, education & well-being and the importance of supportive partners, parents and grandparents of all genders came up again and again. On the Women in Arts panel, celebrating Women's Centre New Plymouth's 50th at Te Whare Hononga 💜

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 ‘rewarding’ poetry collection ‘with flashes of Nordic noir humour’ - a delightful review and reading of my ‘Mudlarking’ poem by Harry Ricketts on Radio NZ. You may keep the skates, Harry! 😎🙏 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

We're celebrating 50 years of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! Did you know takahē publishes short fiction & poetry in Te Reo Māori with English translation? You can also enter the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize with a poem in Te Reo with English translation. It closes at the end of this month, so kia tere!

The Anatomy of Sand - now available in Finland! 🇫🇮 It sold out in Mariehamn 🇦🇽 but through Boklund (thanks to Ellips) it’s now possible to order my first English-language poetry collection online in the Nordic countries. Limited copies available though. 😊 www.boklund.fi/bokhandel/ly...

In good company! 😎Catherine Chidgey was so inspiring last night. Our writers’ talk on writing stories - and poetry! - with an eye on climate &nature for survival starts at 11:30am at Puke Ariki Library. Come join us! #StoryWorlds

‘Fiction for Survival: Storytelling in the Face of Ecological Crisis’ - reflecting our changing world while holding space for hope, resilience and action. Join authors Clare Moleta, Mikaela Nyman, Tim Jones & Cassie Hart (Kāi Tahu / Kāti Māmoe). Sun 14th Sep 11:30am, Puke Ariki Library. Free event!

Nyman warns us how flawed our methods of prediction are: ‘Our technological fortress is built on a waning moon, / our sense of control but a chimera.’ — Sophie van Waardenberg reviews The Anatomy of Sand in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books. www.nzreviewofbooks.com/ten-thousand...

The takahē staff are deeply saddened at the sudden passing of our Essays Editor, Kelly Ana Morey, and send heartfelt condolences to her whānau, friends, and all those in the writing community who will feel this great loss.

The Women’s Centre New Plymouth celebrates its 50th w discussions on women in politics, women in law, women in art, heroic bitches etc on Saturday 20 Sept. For the full programme and to register, see: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or email the fab admin person at [email protected] (she’s real)

“Literature has a democratic function only because it doesn’t preach – if you preach then you become authoritarian” — Lea Ypi Ypi’s memoir ‘Free‘ detailed her experience of growing up in Albania. Can’t wait to read her new book! theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Nästa helg är det dags för Konstrundan Finland - Open Studios i hela landet! 🇫🇮Maria Rosenlöf visar fotografier & video i Vårdö, inkl vår gemensamma poetiska videofilm med 2 av mina dikter. Kom till Grundsunda och kolla utbudet! ❤ På Åland är det 39 konstnärer som deltar i år! 🇦🇽

Driven to total silliness by a month of packing and posting 1500 books sold in the August sale, the THWUP team are shown here cowering together in a stairwell with various volumes of Selected Poems on their heads. Buy some Selected Poems! Half price! teherengawakapress.co.nz/collections/...

Meeting my fabulous publisher Ralf Andtbacka, Ellips, in Vasa, Finland. Award-winning Finnish-Swedish poet and critic who has supported the lifeblood of poets and poetry in Finland and internationally for decades.

The Anatomy of Sand in Mariehamns Bokhandel in the Åland Islands 😎

Join renowned Sámi artist Inga-Wiktoria Påve for an illustration workshop that explores image, symbol, memory. Rooted in her Sámi heritage and duodji (craft), Inga will guide you to connect with your own culture through mark-making. No experience needed. Book at pukeariki.com/event/E29080...

Going back to 1949 you can find some treasures. Fleur Adcock, for example. teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/col...

'In this book, Nyman has done what the best poets do: taken unsettling truths and embedded them deep within the text, amongst an accurate and vivid picture of our imperfect and broken world.' Erica Stretton reviews The Anatomy of Sand for Kete. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

“In this book, Nyman has done what the best poets do: taken unsettling truths and embedded them deep within the text, amongst an accurate and vivid picture of our imperfect and broken world.” A short capsule review in Kete. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...

A celebration of connection between people, places and ideas. Presented by Puke Ariki and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, the Story World festival invites you to listen deeply, speak honestly, imagine boldly. Climate fiction (SADO) for me! 😎 Tickets & info at pukeariki.com/story-worlds

An eclectic gathering of illness poems to help Poetry Shelf celebrate Paula Green’s The Venetian Blind Poems

Men vad roligt att vi fick sån stor publik på Kulturnatten i Mariehamns bibliotek! Tack alla som kom och lyssnade på Katarina och mig i ett samtal om skrivandet som både process och besatthet. Lite dikter hann vi också läsa.

Delighted to have a poem in the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook, edited by Tracey Slaughter, published by Massey University Press.

The siege of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands as reported in London newspapers in August 1854. Hordes of Russian, French & British troops fighting over strategically placed rocks in the Baltic Sea and world dominance…

A sprawling conversation with Rachel Smith about poetry, translation and cross-pollination across art disciplines in the latest Flash Frontier flashfrontier.com/new-book-rac...