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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Tusiata Avia’s ‘Covid in the time of Primeminiscinda’
Covid in the time of Primeminiscinda I’m not listening to Jacinda I’m going to my friend’s party and all the herbalists are there listing all the things: Thieves Oil, whiteywood, kānuka, honeysuckle,...
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Poetry Shelf plays favourites: Freya Daly Sadgrove’s ‘THIN AIR’
Freya Daly Sadgrove (Head Girl, Victoria University Press, 2020) Freya Daly Sadgrove’s debut collection, Head Girl, arrived in the world in February, and like a number of local poetry books missed a...
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Poetry Shelf review: Bill Manhire’s Wow
Bill Manhire, Wow, Victoria University Press, 2020 Excuse me if I laugh. The roads are dark and large books block our path. The air we breathe is made of evening air. The world is longer than the road...
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Poetry Shelf review: Tusiata Avia’s The Savage Coloniser Book
Tusiata Avia, The Savage Coloniser Book, Victoria University Press, 2020 I have just read Selina Tusitala Marsh’s brilliant review of The Savage Coloniser Book at the Academy of New Zealand...
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Poetry Shelf Lounge: Dylan Horrocks and Tara Black discuss This Is Not a Pipe
Tara Black makes comics and sits in the front row of book events so she can draw the writers. Her work appears on The Sapling, Stasis Journal and her website, taracomics.com. This Is Not a Pipe is her...
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Poetry Shelf: 8 Poets pick favourite 2020 poetry reads
For end-of-year Poetry Shelf wraps, I have usually invited a swag of writers to pick books they have loved. It has always turned into a mammoth reading celebration, mostly of poetry, but with a little...
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Poetry Shelf review: Hinemoana Baker’s funkhaus
Hinemoana Baker funkhaus Victoria University Press, 2020 A woman carries in her arms a heavy rectangle of sky – roofs and treetops. She places it in the back seat of her car to calm down. You and I...
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Poetry Shelf celebrates the Ockham NZ Book Awards Poetry Longlist: Natalie...
Natalie Morrison reads from Pins, Victoria University Press, 2020 Natalie Morrison has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she received the Biggs Family...
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Poetry Shelf celebrates Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry Longlist: A Bill Manhire...
Someone was Burning the Forest We did not know why the child was crying,nor why he stood bare-shouldered at the window.How had he come by those skimpy feathers?The mother had fallen from the towera...
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Poetry Shelf celebrates the Ockham NZ Book Awards Poetry longlist: Tusiata...
Tusiata Avia reads ‘Massacre’ from The Savage Coloniser Book (Victoria University Press, 2020) Tusiata Avia is an acclaimed poet, performer and children’s writer. Her previous poetry collections are...
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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: my review of Fleur Adcock’s at Kete Books
I woke in the middle of the night with an @RNZ earthquake message and held the radio to my ear until dawn, drifting in and out of advice, alerts and individual stories from mayors and locals, with the...
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Poetry Shelf Review: Eamonn Marra’s 2000ft above Worry Level
Eamonn Marra, 2000ft above Worry Level, Victoria University Press, 2020 Have you read Eamonn Marra’s 2000ft Above Worry Level yet? It is so good. It is so real it hurts, because there you are in the...
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Poetry Shelf review: Ruby Solly’s Tōku Pāpā
Tōku Pāpā, Ruby Solly, Victoria University Press, 2021 Over the past year, in all my musings and readings, books have felt so very precious. Books crossing myriad categories, books for adults and...
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Poetry Shelf review: Bernadette Hall’s Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems...
Bernadette Hall, Fancy Dancing: New and Selected Poems 2004 -2020, Victoria University Press, 2020 Campfires flicker in the night, ice masks the harbour. I’ve made up my mind at last. I’m going to...
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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Tracey Slaughter launches Devil’s Trumpet
Victoria University Press and Poppies Bookstorewarmly invite you to the launch of Devil’s Trumpetby Tracey Slaughter on Thursday 15 April, 6pm at Poppies Bookshop,Casabella Lane, Barton St,Kikiroa,...
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Poetry Shelf celebrates new books: Ash Davida Jane reads from How to Live...
How to Live with Mammals, Ash Davida Jane, Victoria University Press, 2021 Ash reads ‘water levels’ Ash reads ‘mating in suburbia’ Ash reads ‘transplanting’ Ash reads ‘carrying capacity’ Ash Davida...
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Poetry Shelf congratulates Tusiata Avia, the Ockham NZ Book Award Poetry...
Such heartfelt congratulations to Tusiata Avia, a much loved poet who has and who continues to inspire generations of poets. Yes Pasifika poets, yes young women writing, and yes, most importantly, yes...
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Poetry Shelf review: Ash Davida Jane’s How to Live with Mammals
How to Live with Mammals, Ash Davida Jane, Victoria University Press, 2021 Every poem in Ash Davida Jane’s new collection How to Live with Mammals is an explosion in the mouth; the intricacies and...
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