Anna Jackson
@flewoutof.bsky.social
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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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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Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social
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...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social
This conference programme looks spectacular.
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...
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
This conference programme looks spectacular.
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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
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.
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In times past, poets had a sixth finger on each hand
to better endure the ache of writing.
- Nasser Rabah, “Meditations”
to better endure the ache of writing.
- Nasser Rabah, “Meditations”
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In times past, poets had a sixth finger on each hand
to better endure the ache of writing.
- Nasser Rabah, “Meditations”
to better endure the ache of writing.
- Nasser Rabah, “Meditations”
Climate friendly house, no pamphlets please, only kittens
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Climate friendly house, no pamphlets please, only kittens
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?
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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?
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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...
Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
Peer Support Worker - Specialist Eating Disorders Service | Waikato | NZ Government Jobs
jobs.govt.nz
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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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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!
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
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!
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!
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...
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…
nzpoetryshelf.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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...
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/05/p...
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...
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
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...
www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/intervi...
Anne Kennedy is a wonder.
This is why I love doing Poetry Shelf - Anne Kennedy's incredible reading took me to a cafe. Have a listen! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/31/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Reading: Anne Kennedy
Anne reads a selection of her poems Anne Kennedy’s most recent books are The Sea Walks into a Wall, The Ice Shelf and, as editor, Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealan…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Anne Kennedy is a wonder.
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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...
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
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...
www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Entries for the ABR’s Calibre Essay Prize are open. Prize money $10,000,
closing 2 February 2026, essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject are sought. You can read the 2024 winning essay by Tracey Slaughter on the website.
closing 2 February 2026, essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject are sought. You can read the 2024 winning essay by Tracey Slaughter on the website.
Current 2026 Prize
Founded in 2007, the Calibre Prize is one of the world’s leading prizes for a new non-fiction essay.
www.australianbookreview.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Entries for the ABR’s Calibre Essay Prize are open. Prize money $10,000,
closing 2 February 2026, essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject are sought. You can read the 2024 winning essay by Tracey Slaughter on the website.
closing 2 February 2026, essays of between 2,000 and 5,000 words on any subject are sought. You can read the 2024 winning essay by Tracey Slaughter on the website.
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The main stick Labour has had to beat Nats with for the last 20 months is "They gave $2.9Billion to landlords!"
You will steal this insult from our cold dead hands! #NZPol
You will steal this insult from our cold dead hands! #NZPol
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The main stick Labour has had to beat Nats with for the last 20 months is "They gave $2.9Billion to landlords!"
You will steal this insult from our cold dead hands! #NZPol
You will steal this insult from our cold dead hands! #NZPol
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Should NZ spend $50B on roads to nowhere?
E.g. 2nd Mt Victoria (car) tunnel in Wellington (3rd if you count the Mt Vic bus tunnel) has a BCR of 1.0, meaning that the government wants to spend $3.8 billion on a project with no net benefit. HT @thespinoff.bsky.social
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...
E.g. 2nd Mt Victoria (car) tunnel in Wellington (3rd if you count the Mt Vic bus tunnel) has a BCR of 1.0, meaning that the government wants to spend $3.8 billion on a project with no net benefit. HT @thespinoff.bsky.social
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...
We’re spending all our money on roads that suck
At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.
thespinoff.co.nz
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Should NZ spend $50B on roads to nowhere?
E.g. 2nd Mt Victoria (car) tunnel in Wellington (3rd if you count the Mt Vic bus tunnel) has a BCR of 1.0, meaning that the government wants to spend $3.8 billion on a project with no net benefit. HT @thespinoff.bsky.social
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...
E.g. 2nd Mt Victoria (car) tunnel in Wellington (3rd if you count the Mt Vic bus tunnel) has a BCR of 1.0, meaning that the government wants to spend $3.8 billion on a project with no net benefit. HT @thespinoff.bsky.social
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...
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Stuff doing a pretty big hatchet job on CGT, two separate polls!
This one in the front page half way down, the link is in the Thread 1/2 #NZPol
This one in the front page half way down, the link is in the Thread 1/2 #NZPol
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Stuff doing a pretty big hatchet job on CGT, two separate polls!
This one in the front page half way down, the link is in the Thread 1/2 #NZPol
This one in the front page half way down, the link is in the Thread 1/2 #NZPol
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Guidelines now focus on early adoption of the technology by students and schoolchildren. But what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot?" - Luc Steele, Professor of AI research
“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
“Guidelines now focus on early adoption of the technology by students and schoolchildren. But what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot?" - Luc Steele, Professor of AI research
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“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...
Poetry Shelf Protest series: ‘Reading Poetry to Rare Lizards’ – Poetry in Defence of the Environment
Summit, Thomson Gorge Road (looking towards Mount Aspiring). Photo: Gregory O’Brien, October 2025 Backcountry Now and everthe mountain river. A fantail flits.Moss over branch,the trees hurry.…
nzpoetryshelf.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...
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“The proposed desecration of a heritage area for purely monetary gain is an outrage to all of us, as it is to the citizens of Central Otago and to all New Zealanders.”
- Gregory O’Brien
- Gregory O’Brien
This day of protest. And now this incredible gathering of voices speaking on behalf of the land: nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/23/p...
Poetry Shelf Protest series: ‘Reading Poetry to Rare Lizards’ – Poetry in Defence of the Environment
Summit, Thomson Gorge Road (looking towards Mount Aspiring). Photo: Gregory O’Brien, October 2025 Backcountry Now and everthe mountain river. A fantail flits.Moss over branch,the trees hurry.…
nzpoetryshelf.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“The proposed desecration of a heritage area for purely monetary gain is an outrage to all of us, as it is to the citizens of Central Otago and to all New Zealanders.”
- Gregory O’Brien
- Gregory O’Brien