So F ing cool!!

Join us on Sept. 16 at 2 pm to hear from UBC Creative Writing faculty who are publishing work this year. Relax while listening to readings from Billy-Ray Belcourt, Frances Koncan, Timothy Taylor and Tanya Kyi. Hosted by Anosh Irani. Free! Register: creativewriting.ubc.ca/events/event/u…

Lovely to see so many of our authors listed here, including in the honourable mentions and the comments down below. 🤗 theconversation.com/20-best-new-ze…

Congrats to CapU arts history instructor Megan A. Smetzer on being awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum for her book "Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork and the Art of Resilience." americanart.si.edu/press/2024/10/…

baby tomato / Hi, let me introduce you / Meet pasta and sauce #hahaiku #haiku

A reminder that two IIML residencies are open for applications RIGHT NOW: Writer in Residence (12 months, a salary and a room of your own, closes 30 Sept) and the Emerging Māori Writer in Residence (3 months, $15000 stipend and a mentor, closes 31 Oct) wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/…

So love #shogun and how "there will be a poetry competition" is one of the most portentous lines 😁

What it is, by davidslack.bsky.social "This is divisive, it's going to bring out and enable all those people who have hate-filled views and we don't need that in this country" open.substack.com/pub/subslack/p…

“All decked out like a cowgirl’s dream!” I haven’t smiled this much in a good while. I’m loving our shows at Dollywood Parks & Resorts Back Porch Sessions this week. Can I just live here forever, please? 🙏🏼🤩

I studied French and German at school. I love those languages but being able to speak Maori would have been a thousand times more useful in NZ. And still is! Sign the petition: Protect te reo Māori in kura action.greens.org.nz/protect_te_reo… #NZGreens

Her maiden speech lambasted the coalition for ‘ attacking my whole world from every corner ‘. Politician of the Year: Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori wins major international award - NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/po…

Magical mystery tour on bus with cool colleagues to check out new Capilano University campus in #squamish - Impressive buildings, incredible views, FIFA grade soccer pitch - great place for writing retreats...just saying...

The busker claps himself / Some kid chases a pigeon / Granville Island Blues #hahaiku #haiku

I am forever grateful to björk who helped me so immensely with my career. She’s staggeringly talented. When I was around her I could feel how music followed her. How it carried her and she carried it with such care. We recorded in Tenerife. I adore her. ❤️

"...You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretences. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another." #ifitreadsitleads

Lionsgate Licenses All Its Movies and TV For AI Mining... & There goes the neighbourhood... nofilmschool.com/lionsgate-ai-d…

Law can't protect world-leading te reo Māori AI database newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/12/new…

How I loved doing this. Thanks everyone 🙏Poetry Shelf celebrates Māori Language Week 2024 nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/09/20/poe…

Friday night read! the bone people is now an audio book, read by Ruby Solly; & Ruby wrote this beautiful essay about the experience. thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-09-20…

So this happened today in Vancouver BC where Johnny Marr and I are both doing gigs tonight (as is Paul Weller). We spent a lovely long lunch comparing notes about the joy of playing music and laughing uproariously about the old days. Love you Johnny.