I think we just passed oops.

'This is a bold, fearless show that has a thoughtful vulnerability to it, as well as a seething undertone of fury and bite....How glorious that a book of poetry has been transformed into such a vivid and original piece of New Zealand television.' thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

'Best thing about reading: You get to be in your own world. No actors, no voices, no camera angles, no edits. It’s just you and some map to another world you can follow.' Enjoyable reckons from Delaney Davidson in the books confessional today.

Always grateful for plain speech descriptions of serious matters. Thanks @rjme.bsky.social ✊

Great to see three members of our 2022 MA Workshop on the Coalition for Books' 2026 New Voices of Aotearoa list: congratulations to Amber Esau, Nafanua Purcell Kersel and Jennifer Trevelyan! www.facebook.com/reel/1755285...

Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigat...

Join us to celebrate the publication of Watching Television in a Love Motel, an unforgettable first book of poetry by Haro Lee. The book will be launched by Jenna Todd. 💜 Friday 17 July, 6pm 💜 Upstairs at Time Out Bookstore: 432 Mount Eden Road, Mount Eden, Auckland 💜 Free event — all welcome!

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Still time to apply for the two-year Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, working with my stellar colleague Professor @maebhlong.bsky.social in the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies @universityofotago.bsky.social…🍀

Same dude, same. From the age of 10 the library was my refuge and my safe space

“What a pleasure of baskets! Trugs, creels, pottles and punnets, heppers, dorsers and mounds, wiskets and whiskets. And if these are not the proper words, they should be.” If you’ve never read Dylan Thomas’ rhapsody on the 1951 Festival of Britain, I’ve reprinted the whole thing with pictures here.

Never mind the weather - curious minds and lovers of unclassifiable books will love this!

Indeed. #BookSky

Dame Jacinda Ardern receives honorary degree from Oxford University, via @nzherald www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dame-jaci... .

Over a decade on from 'The Piketty Phenomenon: New Zealand Perspectives', contributor Max Rashbrooke reflects on a new global report that challenges conventional thinking on economic growth and draws on Thomas Piketty's work to do it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Writing is, or at least should be, a social activity. You need to be in a community of writers and/or readers. You need an audience. All of this requires human interaction. You won't improve your writing by relying on an AI product and sidestepping the very human beings who make writing worthwhile.

Tomorrow in Newtown!

the Transition Research Fund, which replaces New Zealand's storied Marsden Fund, allocates just $6.2 million for science research relating to 'healthy people and a thriving society' that's less than my one single lab has spent in the last few years, but for all NZ basic science about humans #nzpol

Something I tried to get across on Checkpoint but is still met with surprise, some genAI content is unlawful if "objectionable" under the Classifications Act. Usually, that's going to be extreme content or child sexual abuse material www.classificationoffice.govt.nz/news/blog-po...

Whakamihi Nafanua! 💐

RIP one of our favourite visitors

we are clearly biased but seeing art live - a punk show, a symphony, an art exhibit, whatever - is a beautiful opportunity

The hype machine

'The first gift this poem gave me was the enjoyment of hearing Bill read it; the second was the unexpected pleasure of reading one of the classics for the first time, and the third was how it led me down so many fascinating rabbit holes (perhaps, a bit like Bill on social media).'

“I think the idea of any kind of art is profoundly connected to the idea that a human being is speaking to me.” Daniel Kehlmann, in conversation on AI and writing. yalereview.org/article/ai-a...

It’s the 10th anniversary of the biggest self-own in British history and I’m still as angry about it as when I wrote (my contribution to) this www.theguardian.com/books/2017/n...

Coming up this Friday lunchtime at Te Matapihi

Mōrena

pretty bleak perspective on music and the sham and grift economy from James Blake on IG (posted by Pigeons and Planes on FB)

A lack of books coverage, including book reviews, “hurts everyone in the books ecosystem: readers, writers, publishers, and, of course, bookstores...” and so they launched their own review, including posting them to Bluesky at @portersqbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 🪐📚 www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/book...

Dreams make good poetry. I love the red sandals that the dreamer - and the poet - call her saviours, and I love Serie Barford's reading of Albert Wendt's soaring poem.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a viable basis for system of government

'Like the Guardian list, we hope this Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 will spark both discovery and dissent. Let’s all read more books, from more places, from more writers.' www.anzliterature.com/feature/the-...

$25,000 CLNZ NZSA Writers' Award for nonfiction writers, to assist with research and associated costs, open for applications till 4pm 17 July

‘It’s bitterly ironic that these language models – trained on the written work of real people and often taken without permission and authorisation – are now enabling authors and creators to be exploited all over again.’ The new age of literary scams - writer, beware!

Collapsed timelines, floods of new titles and a low-paid workforce under pressure. @catrionamp.bsky.social examines what's happening in contemporary Australian publishing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

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Heads up Aotearoa New Zealand writers: applications for our 2027 Writer in Residence position are open until 30 September. Come and join us at the IIML!

🐎 Coming 13 August 2026! It Gets in Your Blood: Lives of a Racecourse, by Marty Smith.

If I had to pick between shadows and essences, I’d pick shadows. They’re better dancers. - Dean Young

Happy Winter Solstice Kiwis @ today (Sunday) at 8:24 pm! 📍 Scott Base 0.00.00 📍 Auckland Island 7:57:13 📍 Invercargill 8.35.00 📍 Dunedin 8.39.12 📍 Christchurch 8.56.22 📍 Wellington 9.11.23 📍 Nelson 9.11.30 📍 Hamilton 9.32.36 📍 Tauranga 9.33.12 📍 Auckland 9.37.54 📍 Kerikeri 9.46.43 c/- NIWA

Ashburton is the site of one of the most effective ways I’ve seen art used to strengthen social cohesion and build community specifically around recently settled asylum seekers themigranttimes.org.nz/stories/2016...

Tell me how I should live, Kevin Hart

For your solstice weekend: how poets have written about Stonehenge

‘Poetry is one way that we practise our language and it’s how we connect to each other, how we connect to the world, and how we connect to our cultures. It’s a way to keep yourself open to what might come.’ A deep dive into the making of Ockham Award winner Nafanua Purcell Kersel (MA22).