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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 13h

Come vote for "Someone else" with me to mess up Bishop's numbers! #NZPol

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Chris Bishop received the highest percentage of votes with 38%.
Erica Stanford and Christopher Luxon followed with 18% and 17% respectively.
"Someone else" received 21% of the votes, which is the second-highest result.
Nicola Willis and Simeon Brown each received 3% of the votes.

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 18h

I am spinning with excitement over this brilliant article!

Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 18h

Philip Larkin was trans (sort of). Let me explain: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... (thanks to @rlgoldberg.bsky.social for the opportunity)

Project MUSE - Philip Larkin, Egg

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Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social · 1d

In 2026 we are offering a new course on Climate Change Communication. You can study this important topic as part of a wider programme or as a standalone course, at undergraduate (SCIS 317) or postgraduate (SCIS 417) level. More info here, or ask me questions #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/courses/scis...

SCIS 317 Climate Change Communication | Course | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Examine how scientists, writers, Indigenous advocates, artists, and activists engage public audiences with the realities of climate change and the need for mitigation and adaptation. You will explore ...

www.wgtn.ac.nz

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 1d

Really so amazing to be reading alongside Erik Kennedy and Juanita Hepi!!!

Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 1d

Poetry in Performance / Take 3 / Thursday 16 Oct with Anna Jackson, Juanita Hepi, and Erik Kennedy + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective.
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-23-o...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 1d

NZ writers (and current MA students!), this is your reminder that the deadline for submissions to the 2025 edition of Turbine | Kapohau is coming up on 1 November. Please check out our submission guidelines and send us your work! turbinekapohau.org.nz

Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY Jessica ArcusFrancis AschoffRebecca BallNathaniel CalhounDavid EggletonRebecca HawkesJacksonLilly KelleherBrent KininmontRata Lee 🔈Winshen LiuMargo Montes de Oca 🔈Mikaela Nyma...

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 1d

A petition to save art history as a school subject in Aotearoa, organised by high school students, but for everyone to sign (I have!): petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.

petitions.parliament.nz

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 2d

Been thinking it’s time to write your first book of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction? Apply for the MA in Creative Writing at the IIML and have the support of a writing community, Deadline 1 November

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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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 2d

I love Oscar Upperton's idea of rhyme in poetry as a stealthy exclamation mark. But, I also like an unabashed exclamation mark! Or even a lot of ones! So beautiful! Like church bells! Just like they are supposed to be! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/4-p...

4 Poems by Adam Soldofsky

Just Like it’s Supposed To! The church bell sounded so rich in the old movie! So beautiful! In the cool dark of the theater! It caused a stir! The bell rang out in one life! And echo...

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful dark twisty poem by Hinemoana Baker : “we live, which is / a dark disguise”

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 2d

nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/13/p...

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: RUMBLE STRIP by Hinemoana Baker

RUMBLE STRIP The verb to beis not, in Māori.How, then, would wetranslate that soliloquoy? We had the choice.We said not.Is this why they (me)tried so hard to kill us (we)?We need be not.We live, …

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 6d

Out in the world, our book celebrating the swerve poetry has taken towards exuberance, intimacy, eroticism, artistry and a gaudy beauty! I especially love the artist statements by the featured poets (Oscar Upperton: a rhyme is a way of getting an exclamation mark into a poem by stealth). !

Dougal McNeill @dougalmcneill.bsky.social · 6d

Our book is released today. It's edited following the "grand elementary principle of pleasure". I love all the poems and critical essays we've gathered together, found much insight & delight in my co-editors' insights as poets, & hope youse can too. aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/te-whariki/

Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa

Chris Tse to Tayi Tibble – what New Zealand poetry looks like now.

aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 8d

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 8d

Poetry in Performance 2nd session Thurs 9 Oct with Gregory Kan, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective.
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-poet...

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 8d

And that's why GDP is an absolute bullshit metric for gauging the "prosperity" of an economic system. GDP measures how well the billionaires are doing, and it ignores what AI costs the average resident or their communities. Fuck billionaires. Fuck AI. And fuck GDP.

We need a universal income ASAP

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 8d

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The small god is still inventing himself

Last week scarlet & pale
then just a hint of blue

always changing
always a little overdue

yesterday he was apples
today mostly apples

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 9d

Sophie van Waardenberg on the sonnet: "For me, they’re good containers because you have to be a bit declamatory, a bit argumentative, and then you can betray yourself, you can cast doubt on the whole thing, you can shrug the whole thing off and go out into the sunlight." badapple.gay/2025/08/08/v...

Very Good, In Fact – bad apple

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 10d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 14d

Excellent launch speech for the new Nick Ascroft

teherengawakapress.co.nz/blogs/news/i...

'What more could you ask for, really?'

A new Nick Ascroft collection is always a thing to celebrate. On Wednesday 3 September we launched the excellent new book It's What He Would've Wanted, which has received advance praise by readers lik...

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 14d

I always love a poem in which the poet names themself but this one is particularly brilliant: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Jackson McCarthy

Uniform Louis and I had this theory that nobody knewwe were fucking. Uniforms could do that to a bloke — help him blend in with a crowd. Only once, at a party,did I ever see him without the shirt, …

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 14d

So loving this new series! A Tuesday toast to the wonderful Jackson! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Jackson McCarthy

Uniform Louis and I had this theory that nobody knewwe were fucking. Uniforms could do that to a bloke — help him blend in with a crowd. Only once, at a party,did I ever see him without the shirt, …

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 14d

I was at that reading Jackson talks about where we all caught our breath at that volta!

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 15d

Going to the theatre is like being somewhere else
Reading memoir is like being someone else
Reading novel is like being sometime else
Poem is all banana moonlight spills on the sidewalk

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 15d

Waiting for the moment when the lightbulb goes on at Labour HQ & Hipkins stands up and says “ you know the billions this Govt has promised to the oil companies? Well, we’re going end that & invest it in YOU with subsidised solar on every roof in 10 years.”

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 16d

when times are hard sometimes you just need yeasty yeasty fry bread. and poetry. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/29/p...

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Rejuvenate’ by Aroha Witinitara

Rejuvenate Sometimes you reach a pointtipping breakingwhere you’…

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 17d

Yes

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