Iona Winter

Category: Aotearoa

  • Elbow Room Vol.18

    Kia ora WordPress whānau, I’m super stoked to say Elbow Room (UK) have (re)published my story ‘Karanga’ in Vol.18 of their gorgeous art journal http://www.elbow-room.org/about/ I love their commitment to hand binding these limited edition journals that are housed in places like The Poetry Library in London and The Scotland National…

  • Publication link

    Kia ora WordPress Whānau, Here’s the link to a non-fiction piece published by Corpus today. It’s about my journey this year managing a TBI/Concussion. https://corpus.nz/wairoro-unwired-on-being-concussed/#comments

  • Vibrant Rubies

    Beneath her split lip vibrant rubies swing over hidden truths and bargained myths. Rāmere Shorts Twitter 1/9/17 – 6 words: lip, vibrant, swing, hidden, bargained, myth

  • vital

    infinite time to reflect on vital things sentient and alive as the sun carves beneath my skin and mandarin segments linger on my tongue, to the tune of childhood lunch-boxes i am like a blackbird lingering at an empty water trough with the promise of being satiated, desire imprinted upon…

  • wairoro

    wairoro brain eggshell taonga how often were you shaken? i lost count at ten now you halt me completely an uneasy witness to a pared back life of overflowing shoeboxes screaming ‘more odds than ends’ with fragility poised on silken threads of broken-up highways that reside in my head  

  • Micro Madness

    Kia ora WordPress whānau, It’s not a freshly created post today, but rather a shared link for a micro/flash published yesterday. Stoked that I made it into the Top 22 of Micro Madness, an offshoot of National Flash Fiction Day.  And I love the idea of less being more. Day…

  • Thinking outside the box

    Kia ora WordPress whānau, Sharing today an essay I’ve written for Corpus—a wonderful digital forum where ‘conversations about medicine and life’ take place. It speaks to a shared journey with fibromyalgia, cancer, chronic pain and managing conditions holistically, to include our indigenous perspectives and practices. http://corpus.nz/thinking-outside-box/#more-3610 Please share, if you feel it might…

  • the three

    life love loss exactly the same regardless of where they sit be it lap or throat all three peel back the folds of me exposing a core of bruised and hidden truths

  • keen

    i walk the mist swathed whenua into light captured spiderwebs lakeside swans poke their arses in the air to remind me of what has been stripped bare   homeless people sleep near the bubbling springs at night but come morning are moved on—make way for the tourists, this is not your home  …

  • waterfall

    unobscured mists met the junction of my skin lovingly constriction becalmed   a waterfall-salve of rivulets ran thick with purpose and the promise of you (Picture taken at McLean Falls, Southland, Aotearoa)