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This new collection from @assscroft.bsky.social will blast you into the sun
11.05.2025 23:40 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Hoping to die before it comes out to give the marketers a humorous angle. π
12.05.2025 02:08 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Minimums or minima? Synonyms or cinema?
12.04.2025 22:38 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0We've been waiting for the media release to show up on our website, but can contain ourselves no longer: Εrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2024 has gone live this morning, and it's giving the Bird of the Year competition a run for its money! Editor Nick Ascroft talks about his selection here.
30.03.2025 21:29 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks so much @modernletters.bsky.social for the opportunity. Very pleased New Zealandβs Bluff-most poet is next.
31.03.2025 19:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Great piece argh! Also have to thank Talia for putting me onto the Selina Tusitala Marsh poem and Carin Smeatonβs Hibiscus. Would send hotel room if I had one.
31.03.2025 03:36 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0OK why isn't Talia at every festival she's like a very funny, very cool Maaori oracle
30.03.2025 23:03 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Also an honour not to have been selected by this middle-aged middle-of-the-roadster.
31.03.2025 03:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The thing I feared the most, judging Εrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems, was that people would feel they had to be nice to me all year. Luckily none did. www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/2024-content...
31.03.2025 02:40 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Loved your book!
31.03.2025 02:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Well, tomorrow it may rise.
24.01.2025 10:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Today, my least favourite word is βfiligreeβ. That is all.
24.01.2025 09:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
New collection out next year. Nearly none of it is like this.
22.12.2024 03:51 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My not entirely disingenuous best poetry books of 2024 newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/11/x...
10.12.2024 19:39 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
2023 Riot Dad. Playlist at last of my 31 favourite βsinglesβ of last year. open.spotify.com/playlist/533...
05.05.2024 07:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βThere's shoot-outs and fist fights by night in the graveyard, multi-car pile-ups by day. And the freight train derailed and sank in the lake. Like a lobster it bubbles away.β Grandaddy, βIn the Town Where Iβm Livin Nowβ (2023). m.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOH...
17.04.2024 20:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'The expiry date on our promise had passed, and we knew it' - poet Nick Ascroft turns 50 (and gatecrashes the 60th birthday party of Damien Wilkins as research). Happy birthday @assscroft.bsky.social!
04.12.2023 20:04 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1<cough> I may appear briefly if not cut. Was miked up and filmed.
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