Iona Winter

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  • Rejections and openings

    I’ve come to loathe the 17th each month, being the counter of moons that I am these days. 21 months last week since Reuben took his life, and despite meandering… Read more

  • Medical misogyny

    First, do no harm. Isn’t that what medicine dictates? Twelve years ago, I had a TVT-O (transvaginal tape through the obturator region) implanted to assist my bladder, after decades of… Read more

  • Birthing and grieving

    28 years ago I’d already been in labour for a day, then another before my tama ātaahua arrived. In the old days, we both would’ve died in the process. It… Read more

  • Art galleries as inspiration

    Last month I was invited to attend a workshop and respond to the Paemanu: Tauraka Toi – A Landing Place, exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Visiting art galleries… Read more

  • Liminal States

    Reading and reviewing Kurangaituku ~ by Whiti Hereaka was a privilege. Review is up on Landfall Review Online, for anyone who’d like a read…and then take yourselves off to the… Read more

  • Pacifist

    My annual ANZAC Day toikupu ~ remembering the ancestors, since time began, who fought and died in wars. With Reuben gone, to a different kind of war, I have a… Read more

  • Rage and Earth Bones

    I’ve been reflecting on my rage, its potency, and the things it contains. And I’ve realised that I’m exhausted from hiding invisible pain, in the forms of grief, disability, and… Read more

  • Poetry Shelf video readings: Iona Winter — NZ Poetry Shelf

    Last week I ventured back into the realm of video readings, because people have said that they’re helpful (for a variety of reasons). Kia rawa atu koe Paula Green, at… Read more

  • A Recital of Poems – Diane Brown, Robert Beveridge, Pris Campbell, Iona Winter & Vaughan Rapatahana — Love in the Time of COVID

    A Recital of Poems – Diane Brown, Robert Beveridge, Pris Campbell, Iona Winter & Vaughan Rapatahana — Love in the Time of COVID Today, a new toikupu Book of the… Read more

  • Absence and reconnection

    Absence is something we all walk with, as a part of life, and in numerous ways. Yet I’ve come to realise, that it absolutely does not ‘make the heart grow… Read more