Iona Winter

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• Aotearoa Elixir & Star Press grief Grief Almanac love New Zealand New Zealand Literature NZ Books publisher

  It’s launch week!

  November 20, 2023
• Aotearoa grief love poetry suicide bereavement

  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/

  September 17, 2023
• Aotearoa aroha Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Elixir & Star Press grief love Reuben Samuel Winter surgical mesh women women’s health

  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…

  May 13, 2023
• Aotearoa aroha consciousness grief love New Zealand Reuben Samuel Winter social issues suicide bereavement

  Birthing and grieving

  28 years ago I’d already been in labour for a day, then another before my tama ātaahua arrived. In the old days, we both would’ve died in the process. It was arduous to say the least. Yet this miraculous pēpē I was told I couldn’t have (because of cancer) still…

  May 19, 2022
• Aotearoa

  A Recital of Poems – Diane Brown, Robert Beveridge, Pris Campbell, Iona Winter & Vaughan Rapatahana — Love in the Time of COVID

  A Recital of Poems – Diane Brown, Robert Beveridge, Pris Campbell, Iona Winter & Vaughan Rapatahana — Love in the Time of COVID Today, a new toikupu Book of the dead has been published with Love in the Time of COVID. The poem references Reuben’s Totems album Bardo Thodol (2013)…

  March 1, 2022
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  Absence and reconnection

  Absence is something we all walk with, as a part of life, and in numerous ways. Yet I’ve come to realise, that it absolutely does not ‘make the heart grow fonder’. I love Reuben as unconditionally as I did before he died. Nothing will alter that. But this experience has…

  February 15, 2022
• Aotearoa consciousness environment injustice Mother Earth New Zealand social issues social media

  Inhabit

  This post may be seen as contentious, or a myriad of other labelling things. So if you’re someone who thinks that oppression, separatism and exclusion are okay, please feel free to unfollow me. What has become clear is that I can no longer remain quiet, in response to what I…

  November 22, 2021
• Aotearoa

  Sparagmos or Aroha?

  For a while I’ve been thinking about the ways I connect, and the risk I take in being unapologetically myself. It has become increasingly distressing to see how people treat one another, particularly online — despite the ‘be kind’ messages that are trotted out. Every day I observe divisive and…

  November 2, 2021
• Aotearoa aroha grief love poems poetry suicide

  a new poem…

  The wonderful poet Gail Ingram of Ōtautahi Christchurch, has a new poem of mine I count chimneys up on her (virtual) fridge this week. I’m infinitely grateful for my ability to write, even when dealing with overwhelming emotions such as grief and love. I count chimneys speaks to one of several…

  August 7, 2019
• Aotearoa aroha mental health poetry responsibility social issues

  Ode to You

  I remember when you were young so full of tenderness and wonder a deep chuckle far beyond your years you knew things that we’d forgotten but now an enraged beast resides hacking away beneath the surface of your beautiful skin religiously I bargain with gods grateful when my outstretched hands…

  February 19, 2018