Amy Marguerite
@amymarguerite.bsky.social
poet, library assistant & peer support worker. author of over under fed, out now with Auckland University Press. https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/over-under-fed/
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
— Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks (1964-1980)
— Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks (1964-1980)
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
— Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks (1964-1980)
— Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks (1964-1980)
as soon as blair made a lost cat post & popped it on our local facebook community page our lost cat jumped through the window almost as though she'd seen the post & realised we were worrying & that was really quite good of her & apparently she was squatting under someone's deck & not loving it
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
as soon as blair made a lost cat post & popped it on our local facebook community page our lost cat jumped through the window almost as though she'd seen the post & realised we were worrying & that was really quite good of her & apparently she was squatting under someone's deck & not loving it
i actually wrote a poem i actually really like it's actually because i was moving house this actually always happens why & actually why not
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
i actually wrote a poem i actually really like it's actually because i was moving house this actually always happens why & actually why not
"This should be an annual day of remembrance for the public, where survivors are honoured and everyone else is asked to remember what happened to them. It is the abusers and their enablers who should be reflecting on their actions and what changes are needed."
Lest we forget: One single day to remember New Zealand’s horrific abuse in care
Lest we forget: One single day to remember New Zealand’s horrific abuse in care
'Most New Zealanders will probably just head to work on November 12, unaware that the day of reflection is even happening.'...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
"This should be an annual day of remembrance for the public, where survivors are honoured and everyone else is asked to remember what happened to them. It is the abusers and their enablers who should be reflecting on their actions and what changes are needed."
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incoherent rambling aside please check out issue one of this journal, I'm so proud of it, issue two will be up in the new year!
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
incoherent rambling aside please check out issue one of this journal, I'm so proud of it, issue two will be up in the new year!
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
www.kuputoitakataapui.com/issue-one
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The Friday Poem: ‘As Fuck’ by Anny Trolove
The Friday Poem: ‘As Fuck’ by Anny Trolove
A new poem by Anny Trolove....
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November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The Friday Poem: ‘As Fuck’ by Anny Trolove
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Spend 5 minutes on LinkedIn and tell me unchecked capitalism is working. People desperately trying to leverage personal trauma for engagement, "professionals" airing half-baked + hateful political views, managers you've seen bully people for years dispensing trite leadership tips. It's cooked.
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Spend 5 minutes on LinkedIn and tell me unchecked capitalism is working. People desperately trying to leverage personal trauma for engagement, "professionals" airing half-baked + hateful political views, managers you've seen bully people for years dispensing trite leadership tips. It's cooked.
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I love Starling - some of my favourite poems in Starling I later saw into print when editing selections for the AUP New Poets series, others I have taught in class. These four poems from Starling are wonderful, surprising choices - which Starling poem would you choose?
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I love Starling - some of my favourite poems in Starling I later saw into print when editing selections for the AUP New Poets series, others I have taught in class. These four poems from Starling are wonderful, surprising choices - which Starling poem would you choose?
Have you fully recovered from an eating disorder and/or cared for someone with an ED? Would you like to use your lived experience to support other individuals in treatment/recovery? If so, come & join me as a peer support worker at the Specialist ED Service in Hamilton!! jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
jobs.govt.nz
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Have you fully recovered from an eating disorder and/or cared for someone with an ED? Would you like to use your lived experience to support other individuals in treatment/recovery? If so, come & join me as a peer support worker at the Specialist ED Service in Hamilton!! jobs.govt.nz/jobtools/jnc...
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HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!
"I hope lines from some of the poems will run randomly through their heads when they least expect them, and images from the poems will appear in their dreams."
An interview about what I love in the new poetry from Aotearoa, and a description of Te Whāriki, the book on NZ poetry I edited with Dougal McNeill and poet laureate Robert Sullivan:
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...
Interview: Anna Jackson talks about Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries 1915–1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland Uni...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"I hope lines from some of the poems will run randomly through their heads when they least expect them, and images from the poems will appear in their dreams."
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Didn’t quite make the deadline to apply for the MA in Creative Writing? Good news: we’ve extended it until Friday. It’s not too late to come and write your poetry/fiction/creative nonfiction/script with us next year!
Master of Arts in Creative Writing - Te Kohinga Auaha | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Join the Creative Writing programme with a national and international reputation for developing many of New Zealand's best writers.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Didn’t quite make the deadline to apply for the MA in Creative Writing? Good news: we’ve extended it until Friday. It’s not too late to come and write your poetry/fiction/creative nonfiction/script with us next year!
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Here’s a poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social I think about at least once a week:
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here’s a poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social I think about at least once a week:
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Not really scary, but it's witchy librarians! This photo was taken on Halloween 1975, so happy 50th to this image!
📷Witches at the library, 1975, © Christchurch Star, CCL-StarP-02476A.
www.canterburystories.nz/collections/...
📷Witches at the library, 1975, © Christchurch Star, CCL-StarP-02476A.
www.canterburystories.nz/collections/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Not really scary, but it's witchy librarians! This photo was taken on Halloween 1975, so happy 50th to this image!
📷Witches at the library, 1975, © Christchurch Star, CCL-StarP-02476A.
www.canterburystories.nz/collections/...
📷Witches at the library, 1975, © Christchurch Star, CCL-StarP-02476A.
www.canterburystories.nz/collections/...
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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse artsfuse.org/319349/weekl...
Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse - The Arts Fuse
The week's poem: Shira Dentz's "Foretold"
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October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse artsfuse.org/319349/weekl...
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Looking good at Unity @dougalmcneill.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Looking good at Unity @dougalmcneill.bsky.social
Totally agree. Another good thing Matt Doocey has done is introduce peer support roles into specialist eating disorder services across Aotearoa.
One good thing the government has done through Matt Doocey is put peer support specialists into ED for people experiencing mental health crises but also why are they triaging people through ED at all, they need a separate waiting area. The current situation is stigmatising and humiliating.
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Totally agree. Another good thing Matt Doocey has done is introduce peer support roles into specialist eating disorder services across Aotearoa.
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Te Whāriki launches this Friday! At Unity, Wellington, 6pm, with readings by poets including Chris Tse, Joanna Cho, Amelia Kirkness and Tru Paraha. There will be wine! And cheese! All welcome!
October 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Te Whāriki launches this Friday! At Unity, Wellington, 6pm, with readings by poets including Chris Tse, Joanna Cho, Amelia Kirkness and Tru Paraha. There will be wine! And cheese! All welcome!
As someone who deals with chronic pain, I think this piece of writing is wildly beautiful & important. Thank you so much, @drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social. ❤️ "Sometimes I suffer. Sometimes I don’t. Only I get to say if so. Though if I speak, stigma may follow."
New, old, percolating writing about pain, suffering and stigma pinchesofpain.com/2025/10/17/y...
“You hurt too much”: pain, suffering, and stigma
Ngā mihi nui, thank you very much, to family, friends, and colleagues who have read and responded to this piece over the last three years. Ngā mihi nui to the students of SCIS 314 whose feedback an…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
As someone who deals with chronic pain, I think this piece of writing is wildly beautiful & important. Thank you so much, @drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social. ❤️ "Sometimes I suffer. Sometimes I don’t. Only I get to say if so. Though if I speak, stigma may follow."
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Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa, edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert Sullivan will be launched at Unity Books (Wgtn) on Friday at 6. Enjoy readings from some of the featured poets and essayists, and some lively conversation about NZ poetry!
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa, edited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert Sullivan will be launched at Unity Books (Wgtn) on Friday at 6. Enjoy readings from some of the featured poets and essayists, and some lively conversation about NZ poetry!
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It makes me uncomfortable, my story—part insight, part anecdote—started by unreliable people at cross-purposes. And which photographs didn’t get saved? And which photographs didn’t get taken? I never figured out who named the cat but everyone took credit for it.
— Richard Siken, Hearsay
— Richard Siken, Hearsay
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It makes me uncomfortable, my story—part insight, part anecdote—started by unreliable people at cross-purposes. And which photographs didn’t get saved? And which photographs didn’t get taken? I never figured out who named the cat but everyone took credit for it.
— Richard Siken, Hearsay
— Richard Siken, Hearsay
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Grateful to Nicola Andrews for this generous and open review of our book. Love to follow the conversation as it goes along in the world . www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...
Review: Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
'This book encourages close reading and gifting - between poems, collections, poets, and generations. The writing is rich and complex, yet offered in a way accessible to anyone with an interest in lit...
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October 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Grateful to Nicola Andrews for this generous and open review of our book. Love to follow the conversation as it goes along in the world . www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/reviews/r...
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yeah im bisexual, im attracted to bisexuals and lesbians
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
yeah im bisexual, im attracted to bisexuals and lesbians
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we'll give ya something to exclaim about! 4 new Adam Soldofsky poems!
https://www.havehashad.com/c3nun
https://www.havehashad.com/c3nun
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
we'll give ya something to exclaim about! 4 new Adam Soldofsky poems!
https://www.havehashad.com/c3nun
https://www.havehashad.com/c3nun