My cat is voluntarily sitting in my lap for only the second time ever while I sit up in bed and I want to lie down and go to sleep but I don’t want to ruin the moment.

“The Grimmelings is a book I would have devoured and made my entire personality as a young person.” Same! Thanks Cassie Hart aka Nova Blake for this beautiful review in The Sapling ❤️

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Ian’s ghost will now be managing his social media account.

From our recent rally..

Good morning, I’m a paperback writer #TheStirrings is out now, ⁦W&N⁩ ⁦PEW Literary⁩

The Department of Conservation’s chief science advisor is among the roles proposed to be disestablished, The Post understands.

‘I loved reading about one writer’s life through and beside another writer’s life,' says award-winning poet Lynn Davidson of Sarah Laing's 'funny, honest, relevant and heart-warming' graphic memoir MANSFIELD AND ME
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Channelling all thoughts and prayers and, frankly, anger to friends and everyone at Sunday FairGoNZ Re: News and Newshub today. How is it the right response to this crisis to cut the very things we need the most, just because it's easier?nzherald.co.nz/business/tvnz-…

Oof.

An extraordinary essay about horses by Ōtautahi author Rachael King newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/10/a-f…

What matters in these times - Poetry Shelf on Claire Mabey's Domestic Animals at Substack and doing a blog nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/04/10/poe…

I wrote an essay about rediscovering horseriding as an adult, plus horses as stress relief, and sources of beauty, wonder and terror. newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/10/a-f…

Go you good readers! 😊 Allen & Unwin NZ

Hardest scene of all time and nobody has posted it

Helen Garner on sentimentality vs emotion

will living in any main centre help you win big at the ockhams? I did my own research and it appears that no one who currently lives in christchurch has ever won the big prize and the last time an aucklander won the #1 song was whistle by flo rida
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New Zealander of the Year nominations are now pointless. It’s this girl, who will also be the coolest kid at her school pretty much forever. #hesadickso