Category: suicide bereavement
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Tarot Poetry Journal – new poems and audio
It’s been a while since my last post, May is a write-off, being the month of Mother’s Day and another birthing day for a no longer living child. I seem to become more of a hermit each year at this time, the build up often being worse than ‘the dates’.…
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Motherwort
Huge thanks to Underbelly Press (UK) for publishing a new poem Motherwort this week, in their inaugural Issue One! I doubt that I’ll ever stop writing about the absence of my son, and exploring the margins between the realms we inhabit. Grief accompanies love x https://underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/issue-one
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Audio and Review
Yesterday, Paula Green at NZ Poetry Shelf, posted a deeply moving review about In the shape of his hand lay a river. My gratitude to Paula for the review, and also for asking me to read three poems from the collection, that you can listen to via the link below.…
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In the shape of his hand lay a river
In the shape of his hand lay a river is Iona Winter’s fourth book, and part of a body of work written after her son, prolific musician, Reuben Winter took his life. Here, through a poetic lens, she asks unanswerable questions, embodying a multiplicity of emotions, and we are called to…
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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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Deathwalker’s Guide to Life Podcast
Last weekend I had the pleasure of taking with Kerry Sunderland, on her show Deathwalker’s Guide to Life, about coexisting with suicide bereavement, grief, and the Elixir & Star Press 2023 Grief Almanac. Link below, if you’d like a listen. https://www.deathwalkersguidetolife.com/s3-ep05-grief-and-creativity
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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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CLNZ/NZSA 2022 Writers’ Award
https://www.copyright.co.nz/about/news-and-event/25000-clnz-nzsa-writers-award-awarded-to-otepoti-writer-and-poet-iona-winter My deepest gratitude to Copyright Licensing New Zealand and the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa for the CLNZ/NZSA 2022 Writers’ Award. Thank you for seeing the importance of this mahi, and for facing into the subject matter alongside me. It’s particularly poignant being this…
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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…
Iona Winter 