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Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.

Our book is released today. It's edited following the "grand elementary principle of pleasure". I love all the poems and critical essays we've gathered together, found much insight & delight in my co-editors' insights as poets, & hope youse can too. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/

‘Scares the pants off me’: Toxicity surges in local elections This year’s council elections are turning into the nastiest in memory, with a growing fear that online abuse could spill over into real-world violence.

It's that time again, a #nzpol 🧵
What starts online doesn’t stay online.
The 2025 local elections have become the most toxic in memory, w candidates (esp women) harassed & forced to campaign from home. This is what happens when we treat online abuse as “just words”
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The coming of the Māori, and “this long uneasy history of being measured by someone else’s stick”: An essay on the first migration An essay by Talia Marshall, taken from her readings of two books published by Bridget Williams - the award-winning Tangata Whenua, and the condensed version, The First Migration: Maori Origins 3000BC-...

thespinoff.co.nz/books/10-08-...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa | the National Library of New Zealand is turning 60 and we're all invited to the party! Archive fiends can sign up for one of the rare back-of-house tours on 18 Oct. Or check out Don McGlashan's lecture (6 Nov), a poetry reading with 11 Laureates (27 Nov) and more.

Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: Winners of the 2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize The winners of the 2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its fifteenth year, and this year attracted 150 poems from New Zealand, the USA and…

nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/09/p...

Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: Laureates line up: a special poetry event with our most celebrated poets Image: Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh. Photo by Mark Beatty, 2021. Event by National Library of New ZealandCorner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand 6011Duration: 2 hr Ele…

Special Laureate event indeed plus tributes to Brian Turner and Vincent O'Sullivan nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/09/p...

Excellent tool for NZ'ers (and also, anyone from anywhere in the world). Created by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Highly recommend those in politics, public life, activism, journalism, media, and academia use this tool to determine risk of PII exposure. www.howexposedami.co.nz

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

‘The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of addictive properties, it might as well be stuffed with meth.’

Is that WAKE, Elizabeth Knox’s horror novel, on Jacinda’s bedside table during Covid? Almost yelled out in the theatre. Really good film anyway. PRIME MINISTER @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

Has this been published here?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Our Finance Minister putting her English Literature degree to good use, inspiring. #nzpol

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau signs off, and hits out Critics, colleagues and bullies: no one spared in Wellington mayor Tory Whanau’s parting shot.

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau hits out in final council speech
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

We'd love to have a huge turn out for Nic's talk. Please help spread the word. There are downloadable pdf adverts in the link below. They can be emailed or printed. If you work in a public space (e.g. Library) you could help by printing and posting one of the flyers. Ngā mihi nui!

Why We Write the Extra Details Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, p…

Why We Write the Extra Details: Kate Cayley, author of Property (out today), on the Intersection of Politics, Art, and the Private Self: lithub.com/why-we-write...

Taylor’s Version “With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit” (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry—and the celebrity—...

Publication day for Taylor's Version! I'm so happy for my baby and for all the work @hachetteus.bsky.social & @johnmurrays.bsky.social did to bring her out into the world. Consider an order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤

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These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

holla I am looking for manuscript assessment proofreading and editing mahi mostly because I'm pohara but also it stops me from losing my mind to entropy when I engage with other people about their work

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The small god is still inventing himself

Last week scarlet & pale
then just a hint of blue

always changing
always a little overdue

yesterday he was apples
today mostly apples

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‘the secret beauty
of the word ‘No’’ ☝🏽

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

Sophie van Waardenberg on the sonnet: "For me, they’re good containers because you have to be a bit declamatory, a bit argumentative, and then you can betray yourself, you can cast doubt on the whole thing, you can shrug the whole thing off and go out into the sunlight." badapple.gay/2025/08/08/v...

City is made of council Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

'So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant.'

Vote!

@haydendonnell.bsky.social

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Eager by Maia Armistead Eager It’s four o’clock in the afternoonand your face is red as sunset.You are eager like a young dog, chasing words for salivating feelings and day by day building a rockpool full of creatures and…

Wild winds outside - perfect time to linger with coffee and poem - nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/06/p...

We all have a stake in the future of this place | E-Tangata “For those of us who’ve been pressured to assimilate into Pākehā culture, it’s tempting to think that assimilating into Māori culture is respectful. But this is not what’s being asked of us.” — Mengzh...

Mengzhu Fu: We all have a stake in the future of this place
e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...

I've just realised that the Margaret Wise Brown who wrote the great Goodnight, Moon is also the MWB who commissioned Gertrude Stein's book for children, The World is Round. This is a delightful connection to make on the bedroom shelves. And this story about the amusing cake is the perfect footnote.