BEHOLD THE ORB, by abey sparks 12 track album

New album release from our eldest (23) . . . who is a drummer. I've listened to it so much, I woke up at 3 a.m. hearing whole songs unspooling in my mind's ear (comforting: like the soft glow of a night light) . . . Free to sample here! #aotearoa #jazz #newzealand #wellington #dunedin

So briliant. Hard to choose what to read to follow it.

A piece commissioned a couple of months ago & just published. 📚📖 #pukapuka #aotearoa #fiction #poetry #Ireland #Ukraine www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3606...

Protect Pay Equity – stop scrapping equal pay claims and law Sign the petition: Protect Pay Equity

Sign the petition: Protect Pay Equity www.together.org.nz/fbt_for_pay_...

Just read the interview btwn Paul Little & Kiwi linguist Nicole Jamieson in the 26 April issue & was thinking similar things! Life's rich & intricate tapestry & all.

Photo of two young girls balancing on a ledge or slope together, against a sunset.

I have a new essay/memoir piece, centering around a childhood friendship, up at North & South magazine.
I hope it finds the readers who need it. 💛🌟💛🌟
#pukapuka #memoir #aotearoa #creativenonfiction #nonfiction

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The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...

Thank you for pointing this out. Signed. 🙏

Sign the Petition Reinstate Healthy and Nutritious School Lunches

The current school lunch programme is effectively worsening poverty in Aotearoa. Please help stop the slop. Petition below.
#schoollunches #socialinvestment #education

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Fantastic news for @louisewallace.bsky.social !! Very proud and delighted to see, and share, and shout about this news. Giddy with it! #pukapuka #Aotearoa #NZ #writers

Biodegradable ones!! 🎈🎈🎈🎈

Letting go a little party balloon here... #poetry #pukapuka #aotearoa #ockhams #writing #NZauthors

Huge job for you judges, Tania! (I can barely imagine what it was like in the years judges had to do all categories...🫨) Thank you so much for your delight. 🌼🌸

Fabulous, Paula! Congratulations!! 💝🎁🎊💐🥳🎊

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Hazmat Monkey - Cosmic Trash YouTube video by Hazmat Monkey

Music, satire, primates, & even some fairy lights! #aotearoa #music #jazz #kidsthesedays youtu.be/4oGqYvweedI?...

Poetry Shelf summer readings: Emma Neale Over the summer months Poetry Shelf is hosting a series of readings from the incredible range of poetry collections published by mainstream and boutique presses in Aotearoa in 2024. It’s my P…

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#poetry #pukapuka #aotearoa #authors #books #writers
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Epic fail at RNZ A stinging report on RNZ's failure to uphold its charter obligation to support local writing

#pukapuka #books #nz
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The Spinoff brings facts, joy, wisdom, comedy, and tbh I've donated to support these things but also in the hope it reconsiders its decision to cut The Friday Poem!!

Not much leading going on, that's for sure.

ACT wielding 'disproportionate' influence in government - David Seymour ACT's leader says his party has an outsized say in government, but the Prime Minister says he "wouldn't describe it that way".

A guy who calls a spade an instrument for support & betterment, even as he bludgeons us with it. May such weasel words flop. #nzpol
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First was Ruby by Rosa Guy, when I was 12 or 13; and most recent (currently reading) Inciting Joy, essays by Ross Gay.

That's very kind of you, kia ora, Tania!!! He tino atawhai koe☺️

Cover image of Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit: poems by Emma Neale

My new book of poems, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit is launching this Thursday. Published by Otago University Press. Gorgeous cover art by Laura Williams. Design by Fiona Moffat. Edited by Anna Hodge. #pukapuka #Aotearoa #poetry #otagounipress

I'd never seen that before, thank you!!

In some situations, as many of us are! The one time I saw her in person was actually at a really crowded literary event in Dunedin/Ōtepoti, where she was having a whale of a time, laughing and chatting and watching on with family and friends.

Janet, 100 A visit to Ōamaru to mark the centenary of Janet Frame, born August 28, 1924

Janet Frame's 100th birthday celebrations continue all week! 🎂 This article raises several glasses to her writing and her steely determination. Thank you, Janet Frame, for your extraordinary example. 📚. #pukapuka #aotearoa #writers #JanetFrame #authors #fiction #poetry newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/28/j...

Would a collective of halls be a haul? Attentive, lyrical, and memorable National Poetry Day to all who celebrate it!

Short story: Hitch, by Emma Neale A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale

The image illustrating this story is definitely worth a share! Photo by Ivan Rogers. Story first published by Fish Publishing and now online at Reading Room. #pukapuka #fiction #shortstories newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/03/s...

Image of 'Cirque d'Hiver' by Elizabeth Bishop: the page is pinned down by a small ceramic figurine of a unicorn.

Apopros of nothing other than the love of an Elizabeth Bishop poem (and the fact that it's winter here in the southern hemisphere):