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Anna Jackson
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Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
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When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
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flewoutof.bsky.social
dear world, riches await you
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Today (4/12) every dollar you donate to Orange Sky Aotearoa will be DOUBLED. Orange Sky does amazing work supporting individuals & whānau experiencing homelessness & hardship through access to free laundry & warm showers.
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Holiday Appeal 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.

“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."

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“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban
“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”
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December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
Interview with a poem, in which the poem declares itself proud of its semi-colons (I think they are rather like the triangular holes in the tin, personally): nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Murray Edmond
INTERVIEW WITH A POEM: ‘Night Shift 1’ (1970) Night-Shift 1 I get up at 4.00pm& buy a cheese3 tomatoes, an orange, & a tin of fruit juiceas usual;also a paper.I return to the kitchen& p…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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dimsie.bsky.social
It was a great privilege to live here and I am grateful
actuarialeye.bsky.social Jennifer Lang @actuarialeye.bsky.social · 2d
Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.
Graph showing excess mortality for the period 2020-2024 in 40 selected countries across the globe.
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
flewoutof.bsky.social
My brave and heroic daughter helped put together this open letter hoping to prevent others from suffering from Long Covid as she is, please sign
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/a-...
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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covidactionnz.bsky.social
New petition! Clean air and N95 masks in healthcare 😷
covidactionnz.bsky.social Aotearoa Covid Action @covidactionnz.bsky.social · 2d
A grim anniversary today - six years since the first identified Covid case.
In Aotearoa, we were lucky to have leadership that listened to the science in the early phases of the pandemic, saving thousands of lives.
However, subsequently we have not applied the science that
Blue graphic with black font. Header reads Healthcare shouldn't make you sicker. Body text reads: we're calling on the Ministry of Health and hospital leadership to restore clean air and N95 protections in all Healthcare settings across Aotearoa NZ. In a box, there is bulleted text stating SARS-COV-2 is still disabling patients and staff. 1 in 5 children develop long term symptoms. Healthcare workers have some of the highest Long Covid rates worldwide. Everyone deserves safe Healthcare. Read the open letter. Sigh your name before thd deadline. Mask up NZ and Aotearoa Covid Action.
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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David Need
I wanted to show you how to push your hand through my side if it had to be to push yourself push you make a sail push you out a long way, the hand plunged into my leg, reaches a river bed, you are that long I was reach or to turn it around the push you made That’s why I walk at night on water Why you see me in storms. What your poems made open. Its hard not to be you and be a stone you are searching to find to weigh yourself down.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
I am loving this
adeniro.bsky.social Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 7d
the beginning of Yet Another Long Poem(tm) that I've been working on
I’m Aphrodite, Bitches the sea… the stillness overhead and below… the sky is unfortunately an american library… the waves… the moth-eaten flame never dies… the doves… the doves flushed out of the thicket… the thorns… the sky… when summer dies the night needs a flower… I go home… my memories are a storage facility… where is home… I go home… home never dies… the claw machine scrapes at my hand… the claw machine asks for food… the claw machine grabs my hand… the hour is late… I feed the claw machine… in the dream I climb a cell phone tower until there is no more… fall in love with the signal entwined… just do one thing… just do one thing and it will be all right… then another thing can be done… that’s what the flame keeps saying… but the doves say other things… the wave-lapped doves…
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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"Trailblazing women like Clodia have always, in the historian’s shorthand, been called 'ahead of their time.' But history deserves to be told from another point of view."

My essay @time.com

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The Roman Republic Crumbled When Patriarchy Prevailed
Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.
time.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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i love my trans whaanau they are everything / we will fight this

a poem i wrote a year ago for my genderqueer loves
these bitxhes are shapeshifters watch a man turn into a woman watch a girl turn into a boy watch a kid turn into an adult (who journalists won’t stop saying identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns in parentheticals as barbed as the transphobic focus of the media outlet) watch a spider turn into a different bigger spider that is more poisonous (yes this is a threat) watch a mantis turn into a kaiju giant over highways (yup) watch as a snake pokes its balls in and out of its own sockets like the worlds stupidest game of whack a mole softly softly do snakes have balls? that is a question I’m not interested in answering in the least the spider spins a web the mantis gets an arm trapped in it cliff-hanger ending we’ll pick up if we get renewed watch as the slugs out on the deck leave trails for the sunlight to dry up watch as a butterfly dies in chrysalis pre-butterfly and then a whole army of red ants falls out three years later you never know what you’re turning into until it’s happened watch two friends egg joke each other into growing wings and clucking just waddling around pre-flight watch a man turn into another man’s wife an eagle any number of different kinds of birds a lizard watch him become the focus of the poem Maaui loves to be the centre of attention even in stories where shit just ain’t about him hooking a ride on #transawarenessweek cos this bitxh wasn’t going to be left out of a poem with the word shapeshifter in the title watch him get frisky with it and radical and violent watch him burn every Disney suit to the ground for trampling his reputation of being nasty fun watch watch watch Maaui get bored of the structure of the poem he’s in and demands the poem change into something else “well what do you want it to change into” the narrator asks the central figure of the poem “just wait and see” he says
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Let's stamp this racist poll!
1/2 Link in thread #NZPol
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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2/2
New poll shows Labour pushing 40% and likely leading a government
The Talbot Mills/Anacta Poll showed the centre-left bloc would have enough support to form a government, but only if Te Pāti Māori won an electorate seat.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social
elccprogramme.bsky.social English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 22d
We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here!

www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
This conference programme looks spectacular.
nikkihessell.bsky.social Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 25d
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.

I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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One of the wonders of reading, writing and teaching fiction is seeing the truth that the supply of stories is inexhaustible. It's like discovering infinity in what might seem a finite space. There is always another fold in even familiar corners of the universe.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
Climate friendly house, no pamphlets please, only kittens
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
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?
paulajoygreen.bsky.social Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 28d
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
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November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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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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Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
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November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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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!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
I love this series, where poets pick a favourite poem of theirs. How could Chris Tse choose just one? But this one is amazing, and revisiting it now after all Chris has written since, it seems richer and more riddled than ever:
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/05/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Chris Tse
(Biopsy) He is a man carved from witness woodand tonight they will cut him open. Whispers ate his tongueand people failed to ask after him. As they tear at his flesh to let in borrowed lighthis bod…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
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...
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...
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
flewoutof.bsky.social
Anne Kennedy is a wonder.
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Looking forward to seeing all those last minute applications for the 2026 MA workshop pouring in: if you're having any problems with yours, just contact us on [email protected]!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM