Kelly Ana Morey’s final novel to be published on first anniversary of her death The acclaimed author promised Ordinary People Like Us would be 'the most bougie Māori novel ever written'....

Kelly Ana Morey’s final novel to be published on first anniversary of her death

Ardern inches ahead as people's choice author

The last chance for readers to win all 16 books shortlisted for the Ockham awards.

How did we not know before today that a group of kea is called a circus? Because of course it is! Anyway, Bruce is now The Boss.

Tamara Tulitua’s conversation with Eva Wyles in (MA21) about Eva’s UK-published collection Deliverywoman is now available on Better Off Read - thanks Pip!

Kate Zambreno Symposium Join Porter Square Books: Boston Edition for a celebration and exploration of the work of Kate Zambreno. The Kate Zambreno Sympoisum is a gathering of readers, critics, writers, & scholars featuring presentations of essays on Zambreno’s work and a conversation between Kate Zambreno and the presenters.

Readers of #BookSky Our third annual Symposium is now open for submissions! This year we are celebrating the work of Kate Zambreno! All the info including links to RSVP, register for the crowdcast if you ain't local & submit essays here:

'A storm every eight days' - country's biggest insurer calls for systemic response IAG's Wild Weather Tracker recorded 46 storms in the last 12 months - and the company says the level of concern among ordinary people is also rising.

A storm every eight days needs a systemic response- I could not agree more - and hope people are ok here in NZ in the Wellington region after last night - www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Extreme weather scientists warn of impending funding drought 'Some nerd sitting in an office' doesn't seem like exciting research to fund but it's answering urgent questions about severe weather, a climate scientist says.

Just as the impacts of climate change are really starting to bite, AoNZ as a nation is busy 'deprioritising' research funding into it. You can probably tell from some of the quotes how chill I'm feeling about this.

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Hardyesque

What’s that at the window,
hitting against the windowpane?

The weather, Maureen, I hate it.
Weather and war. Those twain.

Then what?
Then more and more of the same.

And later on, more rain, Maureen.
More rain.

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This thread is amazing, full of creative humans helping someone be creative by offering dozens of beautiful, practical variants on "you've got this! Let yourself mess around & fail! Do something else! It's all good."

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

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Rehabilitating the Active Imagination: Samantha Harvey on How to Be a Reader in the Age of Fractured Attention A habit is a spell you cast upon yourself that only you can break. “We are spinning our own fates, good or evil,” William James wrote in his pioneering treatise on the psychology of hab…

‘Fiction… opens up the possibility of other consciousnesses, other spaces, other ideas — and not just the ones that the author provides by telling you information, but the ones that are opened up in your own psyche through your own memories…’ Samantha Harvey on active reading vs passive consumption

"An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes."
~ John Cassavetes

Reading is magic What will happen in our second peasanthood

'The end of literacy is the end of public reason. A post-literate world will be unreasonable, irrational, full of anger and madness, and people eating each other in the streets.' Sam Kriss on the future of reading.

SERVED WITH RICE PODDY SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4 YouTube video by served with rice poddy

Have you watched/listened to the new episode of SERVED WITH RICE? We chat with Uruguayan author Natalia Figueroa Barroso about the colonised history of empanadas, why she was a selective mute when she was 8, decolonising our author bios, and more 🥰 servedwithricepoddy.com

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State of local emergency declared in Ruapehu District amid possible ‘life-threatening’ flooding Civil Defence made the declaration at 4.43am after heavy rain caused slips and flooding overnight.

Over the past ten years NZ has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, NZ averaged only 13.4 days per year.

Consider the implications of central government continuing to refuse to believe in climate change.

llms are in the business of providing answers, whether they're good or not. humanists are in the business of asking questions. yr strength is in yr mind! some of the great joys of life are striving to understand, to feel out the edges of concepts, to expand rather than narrow our worlds+minds. <3

AI email text excerpt: "The algorithm is showing your book to people searching for literary awards contenders. Those people want serious and grounded. You are neither of those things. You are strange and playful and sad."

Savage email received from an AI this morning. I'll take "strange and playful and sad" as a compliment. But I feel this should not preclude writing from also being serious and grounded or literary 💀😂

Writing week 0 A new kind of week, in which nothing happens again – but a different kind of nothing.

A Sunday treat you didn’t know you needed: Eyelashroaming is back with a daily chronicle of writing, not writing and getting trapped in the bathroom. There’s also a sighting of Jerry.

And on 9 May there’s a collaboration between Nick Ascroft and Eve de Castro-Robinson - Alchemy & Annunciations - at Featherston Booktown

Little Prayers — Lōemis

You can hear Little Prayers, a new song cycle from Bill Manhire and Norman Meehan, in the Loemis Festival on 13 June

Poetry as Music, 1 - Article | AudioCulture Some of this country’s best-known songs began as poems. ‘God Defend New Zealand’ was originally written as a poem in the 1870s by Irish-born Thomas Bracken. ‘There Is No Depression In New Zealand’ sta...

Nick Bollinger on poets in NZ music, from Katherine Mansfield, Hone Tuwhare and Sam Hunt to Bill Manhire, Hinemoana Baker and Ruby Solly. There are two new music/poetry collaborations coming up soon in Wellington and the Wairarapa🧵https://audioculture.co.nz/articles/poetry-as-music-1

"It's the golden age for hyperscaled, badly-automated bullshit, overseen by the least ethical assholes America has to offer."

This is phenomenal writing about under appreciated and underrated music.

Somethinge ys happeninge wyth poetrye. It ys showinge up more yn unexpectid places. People are talkinge about it more. Walke downe the streete and a poeme will fly above you. Somethinge ys goinge to happen wyth poetrye, somethinge goode. Poetrye ys on the move.

Long Covid has high prevalence and impact: Where is the Government response? Long Covid's impacts on health, social, and economic justify a well-coordinated national response focused on prevention, people-centred care, and research.

Here’s the report.

Electric vehicles pass tipping point, breaking the link with oil prices $120 oil didn’t start this EV transition. And cheaper oil won’t stop it.

The economic case for electric vehicles is now improving on its own terms, not because of the spike in oil prices but because of what has happened to batteries. theconversation.com/electric-veh...

Eve de Castro-Robinson: exploring colours in a new album — Five Lines A new album of chamber works from composer Eve de Castro-Robinson reveals her as an explorer of subtle musical colours.

A great new Rattle album of chamber music from NZ composer Eve de Castro-Robinson - exploring colours and textures. Played by the musicians of NZTrio. My review: #classicalmusic #chambermusic #nzmusic

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock