Category: Aotearoa
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Three years without summer
Three years without summer. A new poem marking three years since my beautiful tama decided to be somewhere else. Miss you every day bub x Reuben Samuel Winter 20/05/1994 – 17/09/2020 https://fb.watch/n5Q1Pvodjp/
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a liminal gathering
We are currently fundraising for a liminal gathering, the Elixir & Star Press 2023 Grief Almanac https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/a-liminal-gathering a liminal gathering is a loving collection of poetry, prose, essays, photography, visual art and music, from 103 New Zealand based artists, addressing their personal experiences of grief. As an almanac reflects seasons, planetary alignments, the…
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Elixir & Star Press fundraising
The Elixir & Star Press Boosted campaign is now launched https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/a-liminal-gathering Kia ora, in advance, for your support with our fundraising. This will enable the inaugural Elixir & Star Press Grief Almanac to be printed, our multimedia contributors from New Zealand given a koha, and to hold two book launches…
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Intuit gets a makeover
I am beyond humbled that my poem ‘Intuit’ graces the top of this stunning mural in Ōtepoti Dunedin. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/wet-weather-no-match-mural-strong-‘wahine-vibes’?fbclid=IwAR0u1Qbi5iNlhlu7EIav9LguWOAnaCDFQjUCWd9G8Y9sk-P1TOwAJNKsx6g Much aroha to these incredibly talented wāhine artists, to everyone who posted pictures of the mahi in progress, to the Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature for using my toikupu for the…
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Tarot – NZ’s Online Poetry Journal
Thank you to Kit Willett at Tarot – NZ’s Online Poetry Journal for publishing three new poems today: Forgotten Paths, Whare pūrākau tāuhu (the house of serial stories) and Your voice in concentric circles. These three poems will be part of my next poetry collection…watch this space, but it’ll be…
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May; the coexistence of grief and love
It’s been a busy time: a massive move from one end of the South Island to the other, finishing my manuscript for A Counter of Moons, and opening for submissions with Elixir & Star Press (ESP*). If you’re a creative, located in Aotearoa New Zealand, we’re open for submissions until…
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Open for Submissions
Originally posted on Elixir & Star Press: Today’s the day we open for submissions, from NZ based creatives, for the Elixir & Star Press 2023 Grief Almanac. We look forward to reading your work.
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Foulden Maar ~ Rare Earth
In October 2022, good friend and poet Kirstie McKinnon and I co-facilitated a creative writing workshop at Middlemarch, Otago. Our focus was on the fossils at Foulden Maar. I can now share two new poems, Galaxiid and this precipitous embrace, which sit amongst a host of other fantastic work relating…
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Elixir & Star Press Interview
Whakawhetai ki a koutou New Zealand Society of Authors for this interview on Elixir & Star Press x