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The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
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What I read in 2025 (4):
Maggie Nelson's Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
'I get up first to be alone, and also because my jaw hurts too much to stay in bed.' What she writes is what I live, since 17 July 2020. πάθηματά μαθήματα, learning through suffering. A chronic pain fellow. I'm not crazy.
Maggie Nelson's Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
'I get up first to be alone, and also because my jaw hurts too much to stay in bed.' What she writes is what I live, since 17 July 2020. πάθηματά μαθήματα, learning through suffering. A chronic pain fellow. I'm not crazy.
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
What I read in 2025 (4):
Maggie Nelson's Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
'I get up first to be alone, and also because my jaw hurts too much to stay in bed.' What she writes is what I live, since 17 July 2020. πάθηματά μαθήματα, learning through suffering. A chronic pain fellow. I'm not crazy.
Maggie Nelson's Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
'I get up first to be alone, and also because my jaw hurts too much to stay in bed.' What she writes is what I live, since 17 July 2020. πάθηματά μαθήματα, learning through suffering. A chronic pain fellow. I'm not crazy.
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What I read in 2025 (6):
Anna Jackson's Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts
A splendid prose poem about affirmative doubt, in five seasons, from summer to summer, because you can only be aware of summer when you get back to it. A focused, feeling exploration of thinking. Somewhat fearless.
Anna Jackson's Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts
A splendid prose poem about affirmative doubt, in five seasons, from summer to summer, because you can only be aware of summer when you get back to it. A focused, feeling exploration of thinking. Somewhat fearless.
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What I read in 2025 (6):
Anna Jackson's Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts
A splendid prose poem about affirmative doubt, in five seasons, from summer to summer, because you can only be aware of summer when you get back to it. A focused, feeling exploration of thinking. Somewhat fearless.
Anna Jackson's Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts
A splendid prose poem about affirmative doubt, in five seasons, from summer to summer, because you can only be aware of summer when you get back to it. A focused, feeling exploration of thinking. Somewhat fearless.
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RMA out: fewer plans, fewer consents – Expert Reaction
RMA out: fewer plans, fewer consents - Expert Reaction - Science Media Centre
Two Bills to replace the Resource Management Act are being introduced to Parliament today by the Government. The Planning Bill is to "enable development and regulate land use", while the Natural Environment...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
RMA out: fewer plans, fewer consents – Expert Reaction
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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting back
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December 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe
Eva Brunel is the winner of the IIML’s David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting Prize for 2025, presented this evening by Dame Gaylene Preston!💐
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Eva Brunel is the winner of the IIML’s David Carson-Parker Embassy Prize in Scriptwriting Prize for 2025, presented this evening by Dame Gaylene Preston!💐
Heidi’s bullet summaries are 🔥
What I read in 2025 (1):
Damien Wilkins' Delirious.
Like reading King Lear; domestic routines amidst physical, emotional, mental deterioration; the loss of personhood; the effect on survivors; violent gusto of voice in Pete's mother, one word gurgling in Claire, no voice in Wil. Tough read. Genius.
Damien Wilkins' Delirious.
Like reading King Lear; domestic routines amidst physical, emotional, mental deterioration; the loss of personhood; the effect on survivors; violent gusto of voice in Pete's mother, one word gurgling in Claire, no voice in Wil. Tough read. Genius.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Heidi’s bullet summaries are 🔥
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No ifs no buts no maybes, says a politician just now on the radio. But maybe that’s what poetry does all the time.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No ifs no buts no maybes, says a politician just now on the radio. But maybe that’s what poetry does all the time.
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Heatwave? hard rain? Blame #climatechange
Sea Surface Temp anomalies out in the Tasman: 2.7˚C above normal
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#nzpol
Sea Surface Temp anomalies out in the Tasman: 2.7˚C above normal
earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
#nzpol
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Heatwave? hard rain? Blame #climatechange
Sea Surface Temp anomalies out in the Tasman: 2.7˚C above normal
earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
#nzpol
Sea Surface Temp anomalies out in the Tasman: 2.7˚C above normal
earth.nullschool.net#current/ocea...
#nzpol
Excited to read the final version of this collection that began in the 2022 MA workshop!
✨ We're thrilled to announce Hungus by Amber Esau (Ngāpuhi / Manase) is coming 12 March 2026 – the arrival of a dazzling new voice in Aotearoa poetry.
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December 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Excited to read the final version of this collection that began in the 2022 MA workshop!
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Comment: The Government is enabling ministers to have the final say in wide areas of NZ public policy – with risks to our democracy, writes Sir Geoffrey Palmer.
Geoffrey Palmer: Ministerial power vs democratic values in New Zealand
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December 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Comment: The Government is enabling ministers to have the final say in wide areas of NZ public policy – with risks to our democracy, writes Sir Geoffrey Palmer.
‘Duff sees New Zealand better—its power dynamics between men and women, its social settings—than any writer publishing fiction in 2025’ - Steve Braunias in praise of Michelle Duff’s Surplus Women
Xmas gifts: best fiction of 2025
Literary editor Steve Braunias selects the top 10 works of fiction of the year
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December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘Duff sees New Zealand better—its power dynamics between men and women, its social settings—than any writer publishing fiction in 2025’ - Steve Braunias in praise of Michelle Duff’s Surplus Women
Interesting to catch up on the career of our former Iowa Workshop convenor Ben Shattuck, who has written the screenplay of his own book, The History of Sound. The film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, and opens in NZ later this month.
Ben Shattuck: The History of Sound
The History of Sound is the award-winning book by Ben Shattuck, set to hit the big screen this month with its highly anticipated film adaptation.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Interesting to catch up on the career of our former Iowa Workshop convenor Ben Shattuck, who has written the screenplay of his own book, The History of Sound. The film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, and opens in NZ later this month.
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Comment from Victoria University: The easiest way to prevent others contracting Long Covid is to stay home when sick, and for govt to increase paid leave
Long Covid's long reach
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December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Comment from Victoria University: The easiest way to prevent others contracting Long Covid is to stay home when sick, and for govt to increase paid leave
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Alongside the many critiques of government policies that we published in 2025, we also ran many pieces about fortitude, accomplishment, and optimism. These are the stories that we’d like to leave you with over the summer. Stories of restoration, resistance, and hope.
Summer reading: A year of resistance and hope | E-Tangata
Alongside the many critiques of government policies that we published in 2025, we also ran many pieces about fortitude, accomplishment, and optimism. These are the stories that we’d like to leave you ...
e-tangata.co.nz
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Alongside the many critiques of government policies that we published in 2025, we also ran many pieces about fortitude, accomplishment, and optimism. These are the stories that we’d like to leave you with over the summer. Stories of restoration, resistance, and hope.
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"Writing is the art of disorganizing an order and organizing a disorder."
– Severo Sarduy, Cobra
– Severo Sarduy, Cobra
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Writing is the art of disorganizing an order and organizing a disorder."
– Severo Sarduy, Cobra
– Severo Sarduy, Cobra
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‘Elephants so big you could see them for nothing’: Inside Mr Ward’s Wellington
‘Elephants so big you could see them for nothing’: Inside Mr Ward’s Wellington
A glimpse inside a stonking new book that brings historic Wellington alive, one map at a time....
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December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
‘Elephants so big you could see them for nothing’: Inside Mr Ward’s Wellington
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The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The kind of preface that makes me want to keep reading. From Bellamy the Magnificent: An Extravaganza (1904) by Roy Horniman.
‘It says almost nothing about how the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) will contribute, despite the fact that the strategy’s objectives cannot be met without them.’
Opinion from Auckland University: The Govt’s boldest tertiary policy shift in years barely mentions the arts, humanities and social sciences. That’s a problem.
New tertiary plan blind to some of our most valuable assets
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December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘It says almost nothing about how the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) will contribute, despite the fact that the strategy’s objectives cannot be met without them.’
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The Bridport Poetry Prize 2026
Competition deadline: 31st May, 2026 You don’t have to be Tennyson to enter the Bridport Poetry Prize - just talented! All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. You can, of course, write less. In addition to the prize money, our top three winning…
Competition deadline: 31st May, 2026 You don’t have to be Tennyson to enter the Bridport Poetry Prize - just talented! All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. You can, of course, write less. In addition to the prize money, our top three winning…
The Bridport Poetry Prize 2026
Competition deadline: 31st May, 2026 You don’t have to be Tennyson to enter the Bridport Poetry Prize - just talented! All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. You can, of course, write less. In addition to the prize money, our top three winning poems are automatically entered into the Forward Prize For Poetry’s competition, with the chance to win a further £1000.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The Bridport Poetry Prize 2026
Competition deadline: 31st May, 2026 You don’t have to be Tennyson to enter the Bridport Poetry Prize - just talented! All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. You can, of course, write less. In addition to the prize money, our top three winning…
Competition deadline: 31st May, 2026 You don’t have to be Tennyson to enter the Bridport Poetry Prize - just talented! All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. You can, of course, write less. In addition to the prize money, our top three winning…
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
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Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
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December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Prompted by the Self and Sequence: Lyric Diary symposium, Volume Books has put a page of books together that use fragments as form
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Volume Focus: FRAGMENT AS FORM — VOLUME
A selection of books from our shelves that use the accumulation of fragments as a literary form. Click through to find out more: Garments Against Women Terrier, Worrier Flickerbook ...
volume.nz
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Prompted by the Self and Sequence: Lyric Diary symposium, Volume Books has put a page of books together that use fragments as form
volume.nz/volumebooks/...
volume.nz/volumebooks/...
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newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a... Good news! All publishers need is enough notice to abide by the rules.
AI cover ban overturned for book awards
Ockham reverses its ban on two books with AI covers
newsroom.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a... Good news! All publishers need is enough notice to abide by the rules.
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These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.