Nice to have a "My Wellington" feature in The Post this morning, celebrating the publication of my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies"!

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Get your copy at Unity Books Wellington, other independent booksellers, or The Cuba Press #poetry #books #aotearoa

My new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" is launching tonight, 1 October, at Unity Books Wellington! A double launch with Mandy Hager.

It would be great to see you there - no need to RSVP - just turn up at 6pm! Drinks, nibbles, speeches, readings, books.

www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/

One week to go till my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" is launched! You and your friends are warmly invited to the launch at Unity Books Wellington on Weds 1 October, starting 6pm.

Full details including a couple of lovely book endorsements: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/ #poetry

It's a double book launch!

@mandyh.bsky.social and I are launching our new books on Wednesday 1 October at Unity Books, Wellington - my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" and her new novel "Revenge and Rabbit Holes"! Check out the details here: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/09/04/y...

I reviewed Vivienne Ullrich's new poetry collection Halfway to Everywhere - a thoughtful, skilful collection of poems: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/09/03/b...

#books #poetry #Aotearoa #nz #nzlit #nzpoetry

Very happy my story "Crossing the line | Whiti ana te rārangi" is included in Poto | Short, the new anthology of flash fiction in English and Te Reo edited by Michelle Elvy & Kiri Piahana-Wong. If you're in Wellington, come to Unity Books at 12.30 on 8 July for a lunchtime reading of Poto stories.

All round Aotearoa, we're telling ANZ Bank to stop funding coal mining on the Denniston Plateau. And it's not just in the main centres. This is Invercargill, yesterday. #keepthecoalinthehole #climate #nzpol

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Here's my review of Strays & Waifs: A Chasing Ghosts Mystery, by Mandy Hager - a well-written, vivd mystery for adults that starts with #climatechange but goes to some surprising places: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/04/23/b... #mystery #thriller #climatefiction

"Autocrats and body doubles go together like Elon Musk and Nazi salutes..."

From my book review: The thirty-one legs of Vladimir Putin, by P S Cottier and N G Hartland: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/02/03 #australia #auslit #ozlit #ausbooks

My recent writing:
- how to oppose fast-tracked mines and motorways
- a new flash fiction for Flash frontier
- a review of Mike Joy's "The Fight for Freshwater"

Plus something we should all be writing: submissions opposing the Treaty Principles Bill

www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2024/12/27/f...

I reviewed Mike Joy's memoir "The Fight For Freshwater" for the December issue of Takahē Magazine. It's a really good read – and Mike has had a fascinating life in all sorts of interesting ways. My review: www.takahe.org.nz/the-fight-fo... #nzbooks #environment #pukapuka #nzpol

Come to a Hataitai Literary Afternoon on Sun 10 Nov, 4-6pm: "Celebrate local writers with live music and a relaxed chat, followed by readings by local poets Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien, Dame Fiona Kidman, Tim Jones and Sarah Scott". More info & how to get tickets: www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/

Tomorrow night, Newtown Library, 6-7pm - "Climate Fiction and Non-Fiction - Springing to Life?" panel with writers Mandy Hager, Erick Brenstrum, Frances Mountier and I. Come along with questions for the authors!
www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2024/09/27/a...
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/12935...

Author kōrero: Climate Fiction and Non-fiction - Springing to Life? Newtown Library, Wellington, Friday 18 October, 6-7pm - with Erick Brenstrum, Mandy Hager, Tim Jones and Frances Mountier

Facebook event here: www.facebook.com/events/12935...

Please come along!

Looking forward to reading with Tunmise Adebowale, Kay McKenzie Cooke, Michelle Elvy, Mikaela Nyman, Jenny Powell and Richard Reeve at "The Climate Crisis in Poetry and Fiction" on Thurs 4 July, in the Dunningham Suite, 4th floor, Dunedin Public Libraries - 5.30 for 6pm. Come along!

Friday 19 April, 5.30-7pm at Undercurrent, 118 Tory St, Wellington: novelists Tīhema Baker, @timjonesbooks, Jennifer Lane and Kate Mahony will talk with publisher and novelist Mary McCallum of @TheCubaPress about how fact informs their fictions. Come along!