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How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sir Geoffrey Palmer is coming September 11, 2025.

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‘They invented cuneiform and gunpowder and rotary blades, and now here in the 21st century, I can write the sentence “the monkey extracted the pearl-handled revolver from the senator’s unattended handbag, and climbed into the waiting helicopter,” and have you understand me perfectly.’

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Not a profound insight about this lovely poem, or poetry, but I do appreciate poetry among much else as being one of the few places left where you can really, genuinely excavate all the corners of a language and let them play entirely unselfconsciously and that's the point

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The poet inside the speaker of the poem realises they are not in control of its direction.

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It’s been a long and hard journey, but this letter I received today has made every heartache, smear campaign and sleepless night more than worth it!

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Reading Hamlet and nodding my head to show that that's exactly how I would have written it

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Very sad news that the poet Rae Varcoe has died

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In use at many UK universities right now

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Three of the best fictioneers feature on the latest Writers on Mondays episode!

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brilliant

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My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —“George Square”, by Jackie Kay LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social: poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...

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Is the problem that we can't see, or is it that the problem is beautiful to me? Birds of Virginia are flying within you Like background singers, they all come in threes Like background singers, they all come in threes

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yeah that is just not how it generally works

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So excited to see the ever-perceptive @robrubsam.bsky.social writing in @theatlantic.com today on @pipadam.bsky.social's "extraordinary" Audition, out in North America this month www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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I need to be more like the sassy canister

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Mōrena e te whānau - Winter has arrived. Winter Solstice Southern Hemisphere Shortest day Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 2:41 pm · New Zealand Time

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Since the English Heritage solstice livestream is down, here’s an old post on the poetry of Stonehenge someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/last-admis...

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'He wished his children could be with him at the end, “however a cruel and intrusive law prevents this”. ' www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

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The rumours are true: Writers on Mondays is back at Te Papa from 7 July, featuring award-winning fiction by Damien Wilkins and Michelle Rahurahu, boundary crossing books by Anna Jackson and Rachel O'Neill, spectacular short stories from Michelle Duff and poets galore! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

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Great news that Ralph Hotere’s monumental Black Phoenix is back on show at Te Papa: check it out for Matariki! In celebration of its return here’s a poem about it from Chris Price’s 2016 collection, Beside Herself

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Mānawatia a Matariki mā Puanga! Ngā mihi o te tau hou! Hail, Matariki and Puanga! Happy Māori New Year! To celebrate the new lunar year I created this piece of Te Whānau o Matariki and Puanga, who both form part of the great constellation, Te Waka o Rangi. ✨✨✨🌙✨

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Crown Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees. You can touch parts you have no right to— places only birds should fly to. Kay Ryan

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. After Sappho Matariki just out of sight, the moon lost at sea. Darkening night: minutes and hours embrace the lonely sleeper. .

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"In the beginning there were days set aside for various tasks. On the day He was to create justice God got involved in making a dragonfly and lost track of time."

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"Why should I let the larkin 'work' Squat on my life?"

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I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed Science depends on the humanities 🧪

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In some lighter news and for something wholesome for the timeline….here’s Steve Carrell yesterday at Northwestern University's class of 2025 commencement 🤣

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The neighbourhood

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And there it is, quietly and executed through a Letter of Expectations - the privatisation of our health system. Not voted on. No consultation - just admin. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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👍 i said 👍 i will 👍

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"It is true that tragedy arouses pity and terror," said Nance. "In me terror is getting the upper hand."

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Happy Bloomsday, to all who read Ulysses. Here's a post from the archives about how Joyce's novel has inspired poetic fan fiction, from Tom Paulin to Colm Toibin to Kate Bush someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/owed-to-jo...

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What do we want? The 'Ulysses' cat! When do we want it? Mrkgnao! Happy Bloomsday

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Matariki is the perfect time to embark on something new as you farewell the year that was. So apply by this Friday for: Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing | Te Hiringa a Tuhi Poetry | He Rotarota Short Fiction | He Kōrero Paki Writing for Theatre | He Tuhinga Whakaari Special Topic: World-Building

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Auckland launch for Terrier Worrier tomorrow night, Tuesday, at the Women’s Bookshop, if you are in Auckland please come along! Amy Marguerite is going to give the launch speech and anything she ever says or writes is always a work of art!

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Elizabeth Smither in top form

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I think I have read The Priests of Ferris at least a hundred times. Or imagined I had a big blue bear and a lethal red cat. If there is another world I can conjure in a second, it will always be O. His adult stuff was also pretty great. Maurice, gee

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I wrote a brief piece on Maurice Gee’s Under the Mountain for The Spinoff. RIP you legend of children’s fiction. thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-12-...

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