Tag: suicide bereavement
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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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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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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…
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Poetry Shelf video readings: Iona Winter — NZ Poetry Shelf
Last week I ventured back into the realm of video readings, because people have said that they’re helpful (for a variety of reasons). Kia rawa atu koe Paula Green, at NZ Poetry Shelf. Thank you so much for inviting me to read some recently published work, and for giving me…
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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)…
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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…
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Milestones
2022 blessings to you and your whānau WordPress peeps. Wishing you peace, as we traverse this ever-changing landscape which has become our world. 2022 has seen me complete my latest manuscript, and it’s gone off for some expert eyes to take a fresh look. This collection, started after Reuben’s death,…
Iona Winter 