Tag: Aotearoa
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Book Launch Invitation
Thank you again to all our wonderful supporters. The almanac is currently being printed, in preparation for our launches in November. Please save the date, I’d love to see you at one of the launches if you can make it. If not, copies of the almanac will be available from…
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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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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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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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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
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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.
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NZPS Anthology Reading
Here’s my first audio recording for 2023 ~ thanks for tuning in! Heavy-limbed tree after rain and Ara Toi were selected in the 2022 NZPS International Poetry Competition, and published in their anthology alarm & longing. Audio is below, as is the link for the anthology if you’d like to…
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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…
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