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Erik Kennedy
@erikkennedy.com
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.

📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch

http://www.erikkennedy.com
Pinned
Not long now, and this big-budget trailer is proof of that.

'Sick Power Trip' hits shelves on 10 July.

teherengawakapress.co.nz/sick-power-t...
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"Close reading grounds and extends an argument, reasoning from what we all know to be the case to what the close reader claims is the case. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖, I would say."
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Gonna start an Insta called “The White Mannequins of Africa”
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We have about eleven and a half hours to stop this somehow.
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Enjoyed revealing a little about how the cover for @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip came together for the @christchurchlib.bsky.social blog. Erik’s collection was one of my highlights from @thwupbooks.bsky.social this year.
Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I’m just finishing off the third in the Violet and the Velvets series and it has inadvertently become an anti-AI manifesto that I hope will sow some seeds of distrust in children who are future adults (and encourage them to call shit out).
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This is very reasonable.
More of this please
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Haunting new study reveals why hundreds of dolphins were found dead in Amazon lake

focusingonwildlife.com/news/hauntin...
Haunting new study reveals why hundreds of dolphins were found dead in Amazon lake | Focusing on Wildlife
Scientists have finally discovered why hundreds of dolphins mysteriously washed up dead on the shores of an Amazon lake.
focusingonwildlife.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Yeah, I’m sure going on a massive drug bender is all quite thrilling, but you know what is also exciting? Going on an estuary walk and finding the sunken mud-caked exoskeleton of an old boat.
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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By the way: 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", the film, is on YouTube.

You should watch it. In memory of Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Textured Paper
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I had missed this write-up about the insanity of Neom.

'The pace of expected deliveries was extraordinary. The senior construction manager said that for 12 modules to be built by 2030, a 40ft container would need to arrive "every eight seconds", 24 hours a day.' Lol.

ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Wait, what? So does that mean weekend trips per train to Christchurch? 😱😍

#dunediniswinning🙌

www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
'Huge win': Passenger train to link Dunedin and Christchurch
Dunedin's decades-long wait for passenger rail to return is almost over with a new service set to link with city with Christchurch and Invercargill...
www.odt.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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you're going to prison // there's a prison hospital
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Issue Twelve is here! Launching tonight at Bedlam & Squalor, and available online all shiny and new right now at www.sweetmammalian.com/issues/issue-twelve
Issue Twelve — Sweet Mammalian
www.sweetmammalian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What can you even say?
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM