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“Your your voice had to be that ‘40s wartime voice” A poem by Jean Valentine.

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to Poetry Foundation for letting me try to restore this healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. poetryfoundation.org/articles/17056…

Excellent read. And I'd forgotten about Brothel Creepers! newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/22/mau…

Take note NZ.

Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

Jon Stewart responded to CBS bowing down to Trump and canceling Colbert

No one has had the heart to rebuild Nuku'alofa's gothic Church of Tonga. God has judged it with cyclone, eruption, tsunami. I crawled & climbed through its ruins, which have only been made more permanent by scaffolding.

Winter warmth in a hospital waiting room

Wellington.Scoop: Food trucks? Fountains? Civic Square confusion ift.tt/GglmYBs

. Small Child Tying a Shoe He looks up with a happy smile, totally pleased with his failure. .

Laura Kasischke

Husband is chuffed to bits. He has been whistling the same whistle for months at our resident big boy tui and now tui is repeating same whistle. Tui does his own whistle, click click etc, now adds husband's whistle when he sees him.

Shock, horror! English Honours graduate from Victoria University doesn't know what 'fulsome' means.

Wrote a little piece on the slashing of historian roles at MCH and the wider war on history. buttondown.com/unsettling/arc…

"Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, receiving a telegram reading: *All is discovered: fly*, will snatch a toothbrush and make for the garage.." Josephine Tey, born July 25 1896

‘I’m very fond of the dailyness of life. I like getting up, and going to work, and opening the post, and answering letters offensively, and coming back in the evening, and having a drink and settling down to listen to records or to try to write poetry.’

Left: the poem in my mind Right: the poem on my page

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4 of the 5 senior historian roles at Ministry for Culture & History are being cut. This cannot fail to have a significant impact on its responsibility to research #NZ history & maintain & update critical online platforms like Te Ara. Ministry for Culture and Heritage⁩ rnz.co.nz/news/political…