Iona Winter

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  • Milestones

    2022 blessings to you and your whānau WordPress peeps. Wishing you peace, as we traverse this ever-changing landscape which has become our world. 2022 has seen me complete my latest… Read more

  • In conversation

    A couple of weeks ago Sasha LaPointe, Rena Priest and I premiered on YouTube, in conversation, and via the Seattle and Dunedin Cities of Literature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdD4ImRC_s As Indigenous writers we… Read more

  • Two new toikupu (poems and audio)

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  • Indigenous Poetry & Perspectives

    It was an honour to be part of this discussion with wonderful poets Rena Priest and Sasha LaPointe, and our Cities of Literature Seattle and Ōtepoti Dunedin recently. The event… Read more

  • Inhabit

    This post may be seen as contentious, or a myriad of other labelling things. So if you’re someone who thinks that oppression, separatism and exclusion are okay, please feel free… Read more

  • ‘Each day’s same horizon to be faced’

    I am a gramophone on the subject. Each day’s same horizon to be faced. You long to fade out into it, yourself. I look doggedly after a missing figure. What… Read more

  • Sparagmos or Aroha?

    For a while I’ve been thinking about the ways I connect, and the risk I take in being unapologetically myself. It has become increasingly distressing to see how people treat… Read more

  • Not my best look

    I know. It’s not my best look. But I wrote a poem today entitled, ‘When did you ever ask me about my mental health?’ Recently I’ve been reflecting on my… Read more

  • My cheeky wee fulla…

    I wanted to write something last Friday but couldn’t, and then I asked myself who would I have been writing it for anyway? If I am honest, this past year… Read more

  • Toikupu / Poems please…

    Delighted to be the incoming Poetry Ed. for The Weekend Mix at the Otago Daily Times. Kia ora rawa Tom McKinlay for the mīharo interview and Diane Brown for the… Read more