I just signed - will you join me? our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/dema…

Don't miss this one: Damien Wilkins in conversation about his novel Delirious, winner of the 2025 Acorn Prize for Fiction in the Ockham NZ Book Awards, is the IIML's (free) Writers on Mondays event at Te Papa tomorrow, 1215 tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events/w…

Rita Dove for President

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

"O meticulous swivel cameras still registering events" Alice Oswald

Today in Writers on Mondays we return to the Kāpiti Coast with new novels by Jenny Pattrick and Jennifer Trevelyan - this should be a wonderful conversation between a first time novelist and an old hand. tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events... tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events/w…

Very timely. The NZ Children's Book Award was won by Ross Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) for The Treaty of Waitangi. nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-bo…

Ilya Kaminsky

From: The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Polygon, 2009). So wide-eyed and dexterous and fresh. One of my favourite writers.

Today in Writers on Mondays, editor Nick Ascroft introduces Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2024. Includes the poets pictured below and poems by the late Fleur Adcock, Vincent O’Sullivan and Paula Harris. tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events/w…

Join us to launch a vital new book by Sir Geoffrey Palmer: How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand. 🗳️ Wednesday 10 September, 6pm 🗳️ Unity Books Wellington 🗳️ Free event – all welcome! The book will be launched by Jonathan Boston. facebook.com/share/19cC7cWS…

Tonight! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/08/20/poe…

A useful reminder from Marianne Moore #NationalPoetsDay

“Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate 5 out of 6 #Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in #Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.” Yet the world watches: theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

And the winner of the National Schools Poetry Award is...Keiko Bruce from One Tree Hill College, with her poem 'Guilt Tank'! Judge Ruby Solly says this prose poem feels like an entire film captured in a single, carefully laid-out paragraph of poetry. wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/…

The 2025 Schools Poetry Award winner Keiko Bruce & the other 9 finalists will be doing a masterclass with Ruby Solly & essa may ranapiri at the IIML tomorrow. Ruby was a finalist twice & has published two books. Read all the finalists' poems here. schoolspoetryaward.co.nz

SEE YOU TONIGHT!

Ash Davida Jane recommends some red hot recent and forthcoming poetry, including It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft, Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy, and Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia. ketebooks.co.nz/en/reading-lis…

I first read this poem over 50 years ago. These days the fields don't stretch out quite as far as they used to. The poem does though.

The 2025 recipient of the Janet Frame Prize is acclaimed Ōtepoti Dunedin novelist and poet Emma Neale, who will receive a gift of $10,000 from an endowment fund that Janet Frame established in 1999 to support and encourage her fellow New Zealand authors.