Iona Winter

Category: Aotearoa

  • Poetry Shelf review: Iona Winter’s gaps in the light

    Originally posted on NZ Poetry Shelf: gaps in the light, Iona Winter, Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021 ‘Gaps in the Light uses form in innovative ways to express deeply the experience of loss and joy in ways I can’t remember reading anywhere else. Nothing is binary here – everything feels multidimensional,…

  • Podcast Series

    Kia ora WordPress whānau, I’m excited to share my new three-part podcast series with you, recorded at Otago Access Radio last month. The first episode airs tonight at 9.30pm, with the other two following on consecutive Sundays. https://oar.org.nz/gaps-in-the-light/ Each episode contains a selection of readings from Gaps in the Light,…

  • More ancient than any of us

    Here’s the first video, ‘More ancient than any of us’, as read at the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland launch for Gaps in the Light (Ad Hoc Fiction 2021). https://fb.watch/66eMECumpS/ Video credit: Tony Dunn. Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting more videos, and am also recording a Podcast series with…

  • Post launches…and residencies

    Last week I spent time in residence on Quarantine Island / Kamau Taurua ~ and this enabled me to complete the first pieces of writing since Reuben died My gratitude and aroha to the Trust for the opportunity, and their patience, while I navigated the last 12 months of COVID,…

  • Change…the only constant

    Last week, while preparing for book launches and album releases, I ended up collapsing on the floor at home. Ambulance called, and a lengthy wait in hospital to have an infected gallbladder removed. Sadly, I had to cancel my first launch of Gaps in the Light in Ōtepoti Dunedin ~…

  • Gaps in the Light events

    Gaps in the Light book launch events are happening around Aotearoa New Zealand during April. Thanks to the wonderful people at Dunedin Libraries, the Ōtepoti event will be filmed for those who cannot make it. Books will be for sale at all events (please bring cash). Gaps in the Light…

  • Gaps in the Light

    Ata mārie whānau, may I present Gaps in the Light, my new collection (and interview below) with Ad Hoc Fiction in the UK Available for pre-order (at a discounted rate) or you can purchase one in person (fingers crossed COVID behaves) at Book Launch events in Ōtepoti Dunedin / Tāmaki…

  • The abyss of deafening silence

    (CW: suicide bereavement) Five months today, since Reuben died — I have become the mother who counts weeks, moons and months. On days like this, where I’ve had very little sleep, and there are demands upon me that feel irrelevant and unimportant in the face of my grief, I want…

  • 2021

    Kia ora rawa atu koutou, thanks so much for the aroha since my world shifted on its axis ❤️  To those who’ve wept with me beneath the shelter of strong-limbed trees, and been unafraid to meet me in this wilderness ~ I am blessed to know you. And if you’ve…

  • Offline for a while…

    Twelve weeks ago this week, my beautiful tama Reuben died. I’ve decided it’s vital to take a social media break for my hauora ~ although unlike the Victorians I won’t be wearing black every day. There are some incredibly exciting things to announce…but whānau you’ll have to wait until 2021.…