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@NewsroomNZ has this creative nonfiction
piece by me up in ReadingRoom about #lossadjustment, my late daughter Victoria, & also poet #CyrilWong. @AwaPress @maryvarnham @modernletters @jongresham
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#Throwback to moderating a panel about transcending geographies through writing--June 2025
Read my comment in this @HeadlandJournal blog.
"We asked our submitters to send us statements about what Headland means to them—and then we worried. What would our readers have to say?"
headland.org.nz/blog/tell-us…
RIP Peter. You were so kind to me when I did the Poetry MA in Norwich.
The late poet Peter Pegnall (1949-2026) reading in the @thelinenhall Belfast in September 2019 at a celebration of Lapwing Publications @ArtsCouncilNI @somaticon
Thanks so much for this @HeadlandJournal
Meet Linda Collins! Linda is the author of 'Galloping at the Estuary' in Issue 25.
headland.org.nz/issues/issue…
🖼 Author photo: Malcolm McLeod
#literaryjournal #nzwriters
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If there's one thing I learned from Dr Nazir it's this: metaphors don't have to make sense. In fact they shouldn't make sense. For far too long they've been subjugated to the secondary status of having to stand for something other than themselves.
The genius of Dr Nazir is that he made metaphors self-sufficient and if there's any justice in this world, one day they'll reward him with the Nobel Prize for this. This prize was a good and well-earned start on this path, no matter what the hoards of the envious say
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Headland's Issue 25 is out now!
Have a read on our website headland.org.nz/issues/issue…
We are so excited to share this incredible writing!
📷: Cover image: Sophie Gwynne-Robson
My essay, Galloping at the Estuary, is in the latest issue of Headland journal. So happy to be in this. And such a pleasure to work with the editorial team. Thank you. headland.org.nz/issues/issue…
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A sitcom about Thomas Pynchon winning a $600,000 literary prize and then gradually losing his mind as the prize committee forces him to create a series of short-form Instagram videos promoting the award and showing off his morning routine.
I've got a review of Jac Jenkins' collection, Moon too Heavy, in the NZ Poetry Society's latest magazine, a fine line. Jenkins was a poet at the same IIML workshops when I was memoirist. The review draws on that experience, and mutual domesticity😆. @nzpoetrysociety
Sad to read this.
UCL will close its Institute of Advanced Studies this summer, stating the interdisciplinary research centre is no longer financially sustainable, reports @jgro_the
timeshighereducation.com/new…
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When you realize that graduating before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022 was like taking the last chopper out of Vietnam
I have this piece in The Straits Times today on what would have been Victoria's 29th birthday. RIP darling. #Lossadjustment
Angie, our cat, connects me with Victoria, my late daughter straitstimes.com/opinion/ang…
Congrats to friend Olivia Tuck, one of three poets selected for Primers Volume Eight published by prestigious @NineArchesPress.
We're delighted to introduce our three PRIMERS Volume 8 Finalists. Congratulations to:
Carl Alexandersson
Rachel Jeffcoat
Olivia Tuck
Huge thanks to all our shortlisted and highly commended poets and everyone who submitted work in the PRIMERS 8 call-out. ninearchespress.com/primers
So true. RIP Victoria.
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This is such a good read: The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.) - review by Jeremy Noel-Tod literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen… via @Lit_Review
Health NZ trying to put a positive spin on the rise in suicides this year from 2024: 'The rate of suspected self-inflicted deaths in the 2024/25 financial year was 3.1% lower than the average rate over the last 16 financial years.' Sixteen years! wtf? #SuicidePrevention
'Move then, in circles'.
Congratulations to Paul Guyer and Allen Wood, whose benchmark edition of #Kant’s great First Critique now becomes available in a second edition — with corrections, expanded annotation, and translations of all the notes made by Kant in the period between his two versions
So damn pleased my mate Olivia Tuck is on this Nine Arches Primers shortlist.
🥁PRIMERS VOLUME EIGHT.
Announcing our SHORTLISTED and HIGHLY COMMENDED poets.
Hearty congratulations to those listed and our thanks to all who submitted entries.
Head to ninearchespress.com/primers for full details.
Congrats to my friend Olivia Tuck who has just won the Winchester Poetry Prize! Judged by one of the UK's greatest contemporary poets, Fiona Benson. Liv is only 29. A fantastic future ahead of her. We did the UEA Poetry MA together.


























