Poetry, essays, memoir (Loss Adjustment), fiction, journalism, suicide prevention. MAs at UEA, IIML. 2nd Mslexia, SL Bridport, Joy Harjo finalist.
Kakanui NZ
Joined August 2014
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#Throwback to moderating a panel about transcending geographies through writing--June 2025
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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
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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.
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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
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Franz Kafka; we need books that affect us like a disaster
ALT “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? … We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
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Reading Carrie in the new edition. Phenomenal, both in its simplicity (two parallel episodes - the shower, the prom) & complexity (the interpolated extracts from fictional books & articles). Can see its influence in everything from To Die For to The Virgin Suicides…
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@AustBookReview in 1999. Currently sitting in an unpublished collection of essays or hybrid prose
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OED #WordOfTheDay: poète maudit, n.
A poet rejected by the literary establishment or who writes outside the mainstream of poetry.
View the entry: oxford.ly/3FnpdST
ALT The OED definition of 'poète maudit', today's word of the day
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Congratulations to all poets shortlisted for the 2025 Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize, this includes Jane Bonnyman, @rainbow_poems, @catherine_redford, @lesleyksharpe, @_rosiejackson, @poetr_imi, @writer_bean, @jenlareine,@emmaelobeid...
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💜 Yes parents please do.
My mother told everyone she knew, I had my first period. I was mortified. I was a very shy withdrawn child anyway, after this I never told her anything else.
Privacy is everything for a child. 💜
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Check out Olivia Tuck's @livtuckwrites new poem. You'll never get disappointed.
Today on anthropocene new poetry by @livtuckwrites 🎓📏🍑
anthropocenepoetry.org/post/…
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R.I.P. Maggie Smith. Seen here on the Parkinson show with Kenneth Williams, reading one of John Betjeman's poems (Death In Leamington) to Betjeman himself.
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if you are high masking autistic person and you express your needs, people just think you are being controlling or difficult. when in reality you are attempting to bravely advocate for yourself and let your needs be known, quite possibly for the first time ever as an adult.
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Having to deal w/ your trauma symptoms alone, over time, becomes its own complex traumatic stressor.
Lacking the words to express what you're going through or an empathic witness to express it to is a special kind of hell.
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poems when I abandon them
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Thank you @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith for this fantastic spark of inspiration today. H.D is my source today, her love of Greek myth and her feminine moonly way suits the story of Circe as she watches Odysseus arrive on her island
