Feana Tu’akoi
@feanatuakoi.bsky.social
Writer
2025 Convenor of Judges NZCYA Book Awards
2024 University of Otago CoE Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence
https://www.feanatuakoi.com/
2025 Convenor of Judges NZCYA Book Awards
2024 University of Otago CoE Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence
https://www.feanatuakoi.com/
Pinned
Final session of the Storylines NZ Waikato Tour, with the fab new Te Awhi Rito Reading Ambassador, Kate Di Goldi. Best end to the best week! 🤩
❤️🇳🇿📚
❤️🇳🇿📚
‘Away from the too-rough fingers
of the world.’ 🌤️
of the world.’ 🌤️
Saw this last night scrolling & was half asleep so didn’t register where.
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘Away from the too-rough fingers
of the world.’ 🌤️
of the world.’ 🌤️
Reposted by Feana Tu’akoi
First starred review - bit chuffed about that ❤️
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
First starred review - bit chuffed about that ❤️
‘I am smudged and chaotic’
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
‘I am smudged and chaotic’
‘He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy.’ 📦
that is too heavy.’ 📦
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
‘He manages like somebody carrying a box
that is too heavy.’ 📦
that is too heavy.’ 📦
‘What astonishes is the singing.’ 🎶
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
‘What astonishes is the singing.’ 🎶
‘Most things have vanished
while we were talking’ 🫥
while we were talking’ 🫥
I love how this poem expands a quiet moment.
Caribou Kitchen by Annie Finch in Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003)
Caribou Kitchen by Annie Finch in Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003)
December 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
‘Most things have vanished
while we were talking’ 🫥
while we were talking’ 🫥
Reposted by Feana Tu’akoi
An incredible shortlist! Vote for your fave and if you fancy it vote for How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train by me and @jessbradley.bsky.social 👵🏽🧪
The School Reading List Children’s Books of the Year 2025 shortlist is live! 🎉📚
Explore standout fiction, nonfiction & picture books and vote for your winners in each category.
👉 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-bo...
Explore standout fiction, nonfiction & picture books and vote for your winners in each category.
👉 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/childrens-bo...
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
An incredible shortlist! Vote for your fave and if you fancy it vote for How to Save your Granny from a Runaway Train by me and @jessbradley.bsky.social 👵🏽🧪
‘She was probably right about me getting
strange.’ 🦤
strange.’ 🦤
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
‘She was probably right about me getting
strange.’ 🦤
strange.’ 🦤
Reposted by Feana Tu’akoi
Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.
2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets ($9000) - Overland literary journal
About the prize Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets seeks poetry by writers who have published no ...
overland.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Heads up NZ poets with no more than one collection published: entries for the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets close this Friday! $6000 first prize, details here.
‘Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles’ ⚡️
#SundaySentence
~Lisel Mueller
found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes
~Lisel Mueller
found in the first few pages of The Paper Birds, a novel by Jeanette Lynes
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
‘Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles’ ⚡️
‘Tenderness does not choose its own uses.’ 🌼
A little Jane Hirschfield for a tender, tender Wednesday.
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
‘Tenderness does not choose its own uses.’ 🌼
Reposted by Feana Tu’akoi
We're delighted to be publishing What to Wear in February next year, a new poetry collection by Jenny Bornholdt, one of Aotearoa's most-loved poets.
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We're delighted to be publishing What to Wear in February next year, a new poetry collection by Jenny Bornholdt, one of Aotearoa's most-loved poets.
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...
More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/wha...
‘the terror
of being just one person’ 🍃
of being just one person’ 🍃
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
‘the terror
of being just one person’ 🍃
of being just one person’ 🍃
‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ 🪶
November 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ 🪶
‘Someone organizes hurt by color’ 🎨
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
‘Someone organizes hurt by color’ 🎨
‘A mower parted the bronze sea of corn’ 🌽
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
‘A mower parted the bronze sea of corn’ 🌽
❤️ Palmy!
After much editing behind the scenes, I suspect, the final result is excellent. I've included just a select few screenshots here but you should absolutely check out this short clip of me talking about my books and my wonderful local library:
Gavin's story
YouTube video by Palmerston North City Library
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 AM
❤️ Palmy!
‘all that was ever seen was a shoe’ 💔
been a while since I absolutely had my ass kicked by a poem...
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 AM
‘all that was ever seen was a shoe’ 💔
'What we need is here.' 🙌🏽
"And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here."
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
'What we need is here.' 🙌🏽
‘The world is not illusory, we are’ 🍃
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
‘The world is not illusory, we are’ 🍃
🥳🎉🎊
This is cool news from Read NZ Te Pou Muramura! www.read-nz.org/news/article...
"Thanks to our friends at Mātātuhi Foundation, we'll be leading some mahi for a national Aotearoa New Zealand Children's Book Week in 2026." ^DR
#ReadNZ #Booksky #pukapuka
"Thanks to our friends at Mātātuhi Foundation, we'll be leading some mahi for a national Aotearoa New Zealand Children's Book Week in 2026." ^DR
#ReadNZ #Booksky #pukapuka
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🥳🎉🎊
‘I lie here in a riot of sunlight’ 🔆
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
‘I lie here in a riot of sunlight’ 🔆
'Whistling their whims on a low fence-
wire’ 🐦⬛
wire’ 🐦⬛
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'Whistling their whims on a low fence-
wire’ 🐦⬛
wire’ 🐦⬛
‘dead leaves
On their way to the river
Scratch like birds at the window’ 🍂
On their way to the river
Scratch like birds at the window’ 🍂
I don't do this so much these days but a poem for a Sunday. Leaves by Derek Mahon, from this beautiful book.
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
‘dead leaves
On their way to the river
Scratch like birds at the window’ 🍂
On their way to the river
Scratch like birds at the window’ 🍂
‘My heart born naked
was swaddled in lullabies.’ 💞
was swaddled in lullabies.’ 💞
John Berger • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Peege
@bloodsigns
Peege
@bloodsigns
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
‘My heart born naked
was swaddled in lullabies.’ 💞
was swaddled in lullabies.’ 💞