Iona Winter

Category: loss

• Aotearoa grief loss New Zealand Literature poetry

  Grief Dialogues reading

  Here’s my second audio for 2023 ~ a reading of Zealandia and October in your māra as published with Grief Dialogues in December. Massive thanks to Elizabeth Coplan and Halle Williams for publishing my work.

  February 17, 2023
• Anthology Aotearoa creative writing Elixir & Star Press grief loss love New Zealand Literature

  Q&A with Elixir & Star Press (aka me)

  I’ve had a few people ask, ‘Where did the name Elixir & Star Press come from?’ ‘Elixir’ was Reuben’s 2015 Totems album, and ‘Star’ was his first word.  The other question has been, ‘How come you’re doing this?’ After researching (a lot) about grief whilst writing A Counter of Moons, I…

  January 17, 2023
• Aotearoa creative writing grief loss love mental health New Zealand poetry suicide suicide bereavement

  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 through the day fully aware of it, it wasn’t until I checked messages from him, in the weeks before he…

  June 21, 2022
• Aotearoa loss love poetry women

  lean

  on the last day she leaned into me   i captured the impact a weightless fall of loosened limbs   and the blessed embrace of words that lay forever unspoken between us  

  May 27, 2016