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Oh brilliant, I will try it! The Max Key house-sitting poem underneath is very excellent too, won me immediately with the 86% chance of getting fish food up your nose.

I love Starling - some of my favourite poems in Starling I later saw into print when editing selections for the AUP New Poets series, others I have taught in class. These four poems from Starling are wonderful, surprising choices - which Starling poem would you choose?

Have you fully recovered from an eating disorder and/or cared for someone with an ED? Would you like to use your lived experience to support other individuals in treatment/recovery? If so, come & join me as a peer support worker at the Specialist ED Service in Hamilton!! jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.

Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Chris Tse (Biopsy) He is a man carved from witness woodand tonight they will cut him open. Whispers ate his tongueand people failed to ask after him. As they tear at his flesh to let in borrowed lighthis bod…

I love this series, where poets pick a favourite poem of theirs. How could Chris Tse choose just one? But this one is amazing, and revisiting it now after all Chris has written since, it seems richer and more riddled than ever:
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/05/p...

Interview: Anna Jackson talks about Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries 1915–1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland Uni...

An interview about what I love in the new poetry from Aotearoa, and a description of Te Whāriki, the book on NZ poetry I edited with Dougal McNeill and poet laureate Robert Sullivan:
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...

Anne Kennedy is a wonder.

Looking forward to seeing all those last minute applications for the 2026 MA workshop pouring in: if you're having any problems with yours, just contact us on modernletters@vuw.ac.nz!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

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If you wanna go and vote the shit outta this the link is in the thread #NZPol

Current 2026 Prize Founded in 2007, the Calibre Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new non-fiction essay.

Entries for the ABR’s Calibre Essay Prize are open. Prize money $10,000,
closing 2 February 2026, essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject are sought. You can read the 2024 winning essay by Tracey Slaughter on the website.

The main stick Labour has had to beat Nats with for the last 20 months is "They gave $2.9Billion to landlords!"

You will steal this insult from our cold dead hands! #NZPol

We’re spending all our money on roads that suck At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.

Should NZ spend $50B on roads to nowhere?
E.g. 2nd Mt Victoria (car) tunnel in Wellington (3rd if you count the Mt Vic bus tunnel) has a BCR of 1.0, meaning that the government wants to spend $3.8 billion on a project with no net benefit. HT @thespinoff.bsky.social
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

Stuff doing a pretty big hatchet job on CGT, two separate polls!

This one in the front page half way down, the link is in the Thread 1/2 #NZPol

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“Guidelines now focus on early adoption of the technology by students and schoolchildren. But what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot?" - Luc Steele, Professor of AI research

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Poetry Shelf Protest series: ‘Reading Poetry to Rare Lizards’ – Poetry in Defence of the Environment Summit, Thomson Gorge Road (looking towards Mount Aspiring). Photo: Gregory O’Brien, October 2025 Backcountry Now and everthe mountain river. A fantail flits.Moss over branch,the trees hurry.…

This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...

Premium Home / New Zealand Christopher Luxon gets rates relief after challenging luxury Waiheke property valuation Chris Knox Data Editor and Head of Data Journalism NZ Herald 23 Oct, 2025 05:00 AM 4 mins to read

How are you struggling with your rates bill? Well don't you worry, Christopher Luxon is sorted! #NZPol

“The proposed desecration of a heritage area for purely monetary gain is an outrage to all of us, as it is to the citizens of Central Otago and to all New Zealanders.”
- Gregory O’Brien

"unexpected imagery and fast-moving one-liners" isn't bad though

Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges teach us there can be movement / in stillness. in every broken syllable

Crikey. 'the only holy land i know / is where life is.'

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

Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa, edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert Sullivan will be launched at Unity Books (Wgtn) on Friday at 6. Enjoy readings from some of the featured poets and essayists, and some lively conversation about NZ poetry!

Te Whāriki launches this Friday! At Unity, Wellington, 6pm, with readings by poets including Chris Tse, Joanna Cho, Amelia Kirkness and Tru Paraha. There will be wine! And cheese! All welcome!

Poetry Shelf supports saving Robin Hyde’s Penman House: A plea from Mary Paul and my Wild Honey chapter What would the response be in Wellington if you were waking up to find that the Katherine Mansfield house had fences and a demolition sign on it? Would important people reverse the decision with in…

I was so moved to return to my Robin Hyde chapter and to support Mary Paul's drive to save Penham House. What can you do or add?

nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/20/p...

Chris Bishop received the highest percentage of votes with 38%. Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon followed with 18% and 17% respectively. "Someone else" received 21% of the votes, which is the second-highest result. Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown each received 3% of the votes.

Come vote for "Someone else" with me to mess up Bishop's numbers! #NZPol

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I am spinning with excitement over this brilliant article!

SCIS 317 Climate Change Communication   | Course | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Examine how scientists, writers, Indigenous advocates, artists, and activists engage public audiences with the realities of climate change and the need for mitigation and adaptation. You will explore ...

In 2026 we are offering a new course on Climate Change Communication. You can study this important topic as part of a wider programme or as a standalone course, at undergraduate (SCIS 317) or postgraduate (SCIS 417) level. More info here, or ask me questions #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/scis...

Really so amazing to be reading alongside Erik Kennedy and Juanita Hepi!!!

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NZ writers (and current MA students!), this is your reminder that the deadline for submissions to the 2025 edition of Turbine | Kapohau is coming up on 1 November. Please check out our submission guidelines and send us your work! turbinekapohau.org.nz

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

A petition to save art history as a school subject in Aotearoa, organised by high school students, but for everyone to sign (I have!): petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...