Tag: suicide bereavement
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New Book: A Counter of Moons
Kia ora friends, whānau and writerly colleagues. Today’s news is that my new book A Counter of Moons has been printed and published with Steele Roberts Aotearoa. A Counter of Moons shares my initial grief experiences, after my son Reuben Winter took his life in 2020. Each chapter explores a…
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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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Mid-year update
For those who’ve followed me on social media, you may (or may not) have noticed my absence. After much deliberation; due to the onslaught of AI driven technology and the concerns it raises for creatives worldwide, I decided to leave Meta platforms. While many of us creatives have been told,…
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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 hushed silence…
In the hushed silence since the book launch, I imagine many things… Perhaps In the shape of his hand lay a river merely serves as a reminder, of the deep and lasting grief that accompanies the suicide of a loved one. Or perhaps the rawness contained within serves as a…
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Book launched
Massive aroha to everyone who joined us yesterday, for the online launch of In the shape of his hand lay a river. Thank you to Michelle Elvy, Vaughan Rapatahana and Rushi Vyas for your support with the launch, for sharing your thoughts on grief, and for reading some of the…
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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/
Iona Winter 