Pleased for my former UEA MA classmates imogen Imogen McHugh and Olivia Tuck ∞🌈 (she/her) Olivia Tuck - both fantastic poets and lovely people.

New Zealand poet Brian Turner has died. A giant, a huge loss. At a writers festival, he saw I was lost and invited me to his table. He understood grief, and endorsed my book, Loss Adjustment. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/06/bri…

I wish we could have saved my daughter Victoria with this knowledge. An important read.

Thrilled that friend Stuart Henrys (pictured with wife Estelle) has been awarded the 2025 Science NZ Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at Parliament. Stuart, a geophysicist, leads groundbreaking research on the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand's largest fault line.

Gutted that Meta pirated my book, Loss Adjustment, to train AI, according to The Atlantic journal, which provides a search box. My book is about my late daughter and her suicide, for god's sake. Is there no respect? theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Delighted that fellow MA poet Imogen Hughes is second in the Disabled Poets Prize, and that our wonderful Olivia Tuck Olivia Tuck ∞🌈 (she/her) is third. Literature@UEA New Writing

Faction Press Singapore has this ezine out soon. I've got a lyric essay about visiting the gutted flat I used to live in. Honoured to be amongst these beautiful writers. @kindofblugreen. ⁦Faction Press⁩

With poets Moata McNamara, Michelle Elvy and Sile J Mannion at NZ's Aramoana beach for a writers workshop for Wild Dunedin Festival of Nature. We made sandballs. A sea lion slept nearby.

Congratulations to all poets shortlisted for the 2025 Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize, this includes Jane Bonnyman, @rainbow_poems, @catherine_redford, Lesley Sharpe, Rosie Jackson, @poetr_imi, Bean Sawyer, Jen Feroze 💙,Emma Elobeid (she/her)...

I think Sonny Liew has pretty much summed up the Yale-NUS fiasco

OED #WordOfTheDay: poète maudit, n. A poet rejected by the literary establishment or who writes outside the mainstream of poetry. View the entry: oxford.ly/3FnpdST

Dan Sinykin Australian Book Review in 1999. Currently sitting in an unpublished collection of essays or hybrid prose

Thrilled to have a story in this bilingual English/te reo book, out this week from Massey University Press. Pic is of Michelle Elvy, co-editor with Kiri Piahana-Wong. Stories from the heartwood odt.co.nz/lifestyle/maga…

Excited to be on this panel discussing writing across geographies, tomorrow, Friday 13 1pm NZ time live on Flash Frontier YouTube channel. Akshita Nanda Ethos Books #LossAdjustment

Writers at last night’s Otepoti Dunedin launch of groundbreaking bilingual collection,Poto/Shorts, published by Massey Uni Press. They include David Eggleton (front) flanked by Lynley Edmeades, Claire Beynon, Lola Elvy (me next to her);left, Robert Sullivan. #dunedincityoflit

Honoured to be in this book on the supernatural by Dr Jesse Bering. Jesse interviewed me about incidents recounted in my memoir, Loss Adjustment. #lifeafterdeath UniversityofChicago Press.

Poets Gregory Kan (also pictured right with me), Cadence Chung, Nina Mingya Powles, Jiaqiao Liu, and New Zealand Poet Laureate Chis Tse were an amazing panel today at IIML's Writers on Monday event at Te Papa. Chris & Nina were fresh from zooms at #poetryfestivalsingapore

I'm presenting a paper on Saturday at the Singapore Literature Conference, 2pm S time, as a recording, on 'Unmaking the Lyric: Hamid Roslan and the new poetics of Singapore'. Just me, a poet wandering through the academic landscape. Register: forms.gle/mHRjRtHPaK5w82…

Reading Carrie in the new edition. Phenomenal, both in its simplicity (two parallel episodes - the shower, the prom) & complexity (the interpolated extracts from fictional books & articles). Can see its influence in everything from To Die For to The Virgin Suicides…