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New book: Neema Singh talks with Erik Kennedy about his third poetry collection Sick Power Trip and all things poetry | Flash Frontier Neema Singh: Kia ora Erik! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with us at Flash Frontier. Congratulations on your new poetry collection, Sick Power Trip — what a stunning collection! I believe…

'I try to work hard on every poem, but I also allow myself to give up if I am failing. I try to imagine what the poem would be like if it was translated into another language, or if it was read in 100 years. I try to be empathetic, because any idiot can be cruel.'
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How would you feel if you or family member missed out on treatment that could save your life because AI tool missed crucial notes from examination?

Would saving of a few minutes ease your concerns? Or would you prefer more support for doctors and better life outcomes for patients?
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This living cat.

A hobby of mine is reminding you you can read extracts from ‘A hobby of mine’ here.

Poetry Shelf conversations: Paula Green and Anna Jackson In 2022 I had a lifesaving bone marrow transplant and, since then, have been on a long and bumpy recovery road. To celebrate the arrival of my new collection, The Venetian Blind Poems (The Cuba Pre…

Paula and I talk about poetry, and her book The Venetian Blind Poems, made up out of "a mix of memory fragments and notebook drifts. It’s why there’s a strange rhythm sometimes, with miniature snags, jarrings and arrivals, along with sweet currents."
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u have till 12PM TODAY to get ur enrolment details sussed for this year's local elections or you'll have to cast a special vote

don't let the orange voting creature get u!!!!11!!!

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Dunedin Airport Art Protest Remember that it’s a climate emergency and in 2018 our government committed to halving emissions by 2030 under the terms of the historical Paris Agreement?

Trespassed from an airport for two years for wearing a sign reading 'It's a climate emergency'.

Insane.

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Tomorrow!!

Terrier, Worrier doesn't come out in the US till November so there's still time to forget you pre-ordered it and be surprised! www.skylightbooks.com/search/site/...

How do people without cats ever sit still long enough to read a book?

"Yes, these poems are fringed with scathing, cynical Erik-ness" - Claudia gives a good launch speech!

Pōneke friends, please come spend your lunchtime with two poets and an MP at Unity Books next Thursday, the 24th. The most Wellington you could possibly do, really.

Poetry Shelf supports Mandy Hager’s open letter demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire Here’s a placardHere’s a protest placardIt’s so big you can see it from the moon It’s made of oceans mountains forest bush I can see it from my backdoor I am squatting next to a small girl squattin…

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Meta's Zuckerberg pledges hundreds of billions for AI data centers in superintelligence push Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta Platforms would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology he has chased with a talent war for top engineers.

An AI data center the size of Manhattan demanding GW of new electricity. So fucked up for something most of us don’t want or need Such bad news for the planet. 🌎 www.reuters.com/business/zuc...

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TADPOLES A tadpole doesn’t know it’s gonna grow bigger. It just swims, and figures limbs are for frogs. People don’t know the power they hold. They just sing hymns, and figure saving is for god.

A copy of Andrea Gibson’s Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, sitting in a statue that is looking down at the flower of poesy it holds, foregrounded while the clocks and the tree of life in the background are blurred.

mountain poem 2XX/31: another day of rest for this series, i.m. Andrea Gibson. Listen to the short i’s in this one—even when they’re just there by sound, like “hymns”

Poetry Shelf Monday poem: How to lose your voice by Chris Price How to lose your voice I leave aside for the moment Ms. Kael’s incessant but special use of words many critics use a lot: “we,” “you,” “they,” “some people”; “needs,” “feel,” “know,” “ought”—as wel…

A small aria of editorial/poetic hysteria from Chris Price, inspired by Renata Adler
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NZ can't afford to be careless with its AI strategy Opinion from Victoria University: It’s not appropriate to use generative AI to produce national-level policy, especially the document that will define our approach to AI itself, writes Chris McGavin.

Hot off the press! My friend and colleague, Chris McGavin's latest oped on the govts AI Strategy and in particular its use of AI in its development (which undervalues the knowledge, expertise and good work of policy writers) #nzpol

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A Demand for an Immediate Gaza Ceasefire – Join Me in an Open Letter Explanation/Preamble: Like many of you, I have watched with increasing anger and despair the horrific actions being taken against the people of Gaza by the Israeli government, and the corresponding…

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well who wouldn't want to go to this????

For sale: red wheelbarrow, never depended upon

Applications for the UC / Creative NZ Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence positions for 2026 have opened today. Ōtautahi based, $84500pa pro rata across 2 x 6 month positions, closes 3 August. Please share with your writerly friends.

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I’ve said it before & Imma say it again cos worth repeating innit. Friends: LIBRARIES! HOW GOOD?! You just go & hang out! & read! & they let you take books away! & you just bring them back later! & then you take more away! & then more after that! ever onwards! Beautiful thing! Blessed places! Glory.

Kyiv is under such a crazy attack.
Drones. Now missiles.
I’m typing this -
which means I’m still here.

For those who care.

A Pitch for a new political best-seller! The Adventures of Hipkins: The Plight for Promising Policy! Read he full pitch here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-advent...

🎉 Happy publication day to ‪@erikkennedy.com‬, whose Sick Power Trip hits shelves today! This excellent poetry collection confronts an unwell world with unflinching honesty, wit and playfulness. It's so exciting to watch this angry, funny, urgent book meet its readers. Congratulations, Erik!

Ep 153: Erik Kennedy and Pip chat about a pair of slippers Image of Erik Kennedy by Meredith Henderson (Image Description: Erik wearing glasses looks at the camera with the hint of smile on his face. Erik wears a light coloured shirt with intricate designe…

Pip Adam on "that awesome feeling you get in the stomach when you realise, oh! it's a villanelle!"
(Erik Kennedy's voice drops to a whisper to admit "the villanelle is not for me, to be honest.)
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Poetry Shelf launch series: Lynley Edmeades launches Mikaela Nyman’s new book In order to widen the reach of new poetry books, Poetry Shelf is posting a series of launch speeches and photographs. Do get in touch if you have had a launch you would like featured. The Anatomy o…

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Paula is such an attentive reader, I love the way her review mirrors the way the book works, a record of her reading that moves through time.