Paula Green
@paulajoygreen.bsky.social
poet, blogger, children's author
find a sweet spot this weekend and delight in poetry nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/12/p...
Poetry Shelf cafe readings: Sue Wootton
Poet and novelist Sue Wootton’s most recent poetry collection is The Yield (Otago University Press, 2017), which was a finalist in the 2018 Ockham New Zealand book awards. She has held the Robert B…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
find a sweet spot this weekend and delight in poetry nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/12/p...
so moved by these poems by Jillian Sullivan as she starts the South Island section of Te Araroa trail - a new poetry shelf dispatch nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/11/p...
Poetry Shelf goes hiking: Te Araroa poems by Jillian Sullivan
Gillian at the Bluff signpost Jillian Sullivan has just started walking the South Island section of the Te Araroa trail. I invited her to send poems whenever she felt inspired to do so, internet ac…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
so moved by these poems by Jillian Sullivan as she starts the South Island section of Te Araroa trail - a new poetry shelf dispatch nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/11/p...
I'm so chuffed -thanks @philippaw.bsky.social An A to Z of The Spinoff’s best books of 2025 thespinoff.co.nz/books/10-12-...
An A to Z of The Spinoff’s best books of 2025
The year's best reads, as chosen by our panel of experts.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I'm so chuffed -thanks @philippaw.bsky.social An A to Z of The Spinoff’s best books of 2025 thespinoff.co.nz/books/10-12-...
running on empty so barely touched the depth of this incredible book nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/10/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aotearoa
Te Whāriki: Reading Ten New Poets from Aoteatoaedited by Anna Jackson, Dougal McNeill and Robert SullivanAuckland University Press, 2025 Auckland University Press page The poets: Sam Duckor-Jones, …
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December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
running on empty so barely touched the depth of this incredible book nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/10/p...
sheez I love this collaboration - we need more of this as someone once said nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/09/p...
Poetry Shelf review: 28 days by Janet Charman and Elizabeth Anderson
28 days, Janet Charman and Elizabeth Anderson Skinship Press, 2025 I am sitting at the kitchen table, the doors wide open, feeling the wind rustling in from the Waitākere ranges, the bird song rack…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
sheez I love this collaboration - we need more of this as someone once said nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/09/p...
Reposted by Paula Green
"Poetry is rarely displayed, let alone at the forefront of any bookshop. And here’s where we shine, featuring chapbooks and limited editions which readers rarely get a chance to hold/fondle elsewhere." - @itsakirby.bsky.social #KFBarchive Circa 2017.
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BOOKSTORES WE LOVE : TORONTO : KNIFE|FORK|BOOK
an interview with (Jeff) Kirby
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December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Poetry is rarely displayed, let alone at the forefront of any bookshop. And here’s where we shine, featuring chapbooks and limited editions which readers rarely get a chance to hold/fondle elsewhere." - @itsakirby.bsky.social #KFBarchive Circa 2017.
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David Eggleton has a new book out! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/07/p...
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: David Eggleton, Richard Wallis, Emma Neale, Claire Beynon and others – an Ōtepoti reading
Visit the post for more.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
David Eggleton has a new book out! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/07/p...
Just added in terrific Vincent O'Sullivan poem selected by his son, Dominic. Read then listen to Selina read her Vincent poem. Perfect weekend interlude. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates a Laureate evening
Poetry Shelf celebrates our Poetry Treasures Laureates: Chris Tse, Elizabeth Smither, Karl Stead, Michele Leggott, Cilla McQueen, Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, David Eggleton. Image: Miro King An …
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December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just added in terrific Vincent O'Sullivan poem selected by his son, Dominic. Read then listen to Selina read her Vincent poem. Perfect weekend interlude. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
AI cover ban overturned for book awards newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a...
AI cover ban overturned for book awards
Ockham reverses its ban on two books with AI covers
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December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
AI cover ban overturned for book awards newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/05/a...
An incredible evening - Poetry Shelf celebrates with a collage of poetry treats nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates a Laureate evening
Poetry Shelf celebrates our Poetry Treasures Laureates: Chris Tse, Elizabeth Smither, Karl Stead, Michele Leggott, Cilla McQueen, Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, David Eggleton. Image: Miro King An …
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December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
An incredible evening - Poetry Shelf celebrates with a collage of poetry treats nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/a-...
A Call for Safe Air and Masking in Healthcare Settings
We, the undersigned clinicians, scientists, and health professionals, call for the urgent reinstatement of basic airborne-infection-control measures—clean indoor air and appropriate airborne respirato...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/a-...
This is laugh out loud!!! 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 7:35 PM
This is laugh out loud!!! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
This is why I do Poetry Box, why I work with & for children. Today I'm overflowing with poetry JOY. Thank you! I'm posting book reviews over summer and back with new blog ideas 2026 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/p...
Poetry Box November challenge: some favourite poems
Urgent: A boy sent me an incredible poem about his mum on about Nov 5th, 6th or 7th and it has gone missing in my email box. If it was you, can you resend please as I want to post it. WOW! this has…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is why I do Poetry Box, why I work with & for children. Today I'm overflowing with poetry JOY. Thank you! I'm posting book reviews over summer and back with new blog ideas 2026 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/p...
Caught this again yesterday! So good! Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds
If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a dist...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Caught this again yesterday! So good! Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘doe-eyed’ by Zia Ravenscroft
doe-eyed we’re all just kids riding bikes throughquiet neighbourhoods where all the housesare identical and the colour of sand.we’re all just the distant sounds of laughter,sometimes crying.we’re a…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
heck yes nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/01/p...
If anyone goes to the National Library Poet Laureate event tonight and want to send me a few sentences for a post-function feature please do! Would so love to be there but am soaking the Waitākere bush bliss - people would pay to see our extraordinary native birds sing and dance!
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If anyone goes to the National Library Poet Laureate event tonight and want to send me a few sentences for a post-function feature please do! Would so love to be there but am soaking the Waitākere bush bliss - people would pay to see our extraordinary native birds sing and dance!
A special event tonight, and a special new Poet Laureate nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/27/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates Aotearoa’s new Poet Laureate: Robert Sullivan
This evening, on 27 November, the National Library is celebrating 60 years of the Library with a ‘Laureates line up’ — a rare gathering of nearly all living New Zealand Poets Laureate. …
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November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A special event tonight, and a special new Poet Laureate nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/27/p...
really feeling the poetry love this week! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/26/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Richard von Sturmer
My recent book, Slender Volumes, is made of 300 seven-line poems. Really they are 300 stories, told in different modes: the realistic, the autobiographical, the historical and the surreal. One, pop…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
really feeling the poetry love this week! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/26/p...
love this poem starting the week
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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘volume turned down to 7’ by Kay McKenzie Cooke
volume turned down to 7 Slowly it dawns, the need to listento the faint grief of a mourning cello, the sky’s blue jugpouring out a second helping of custard sun,this music that vies with a lost bee…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
love this poem starting the week
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