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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 21h

Written while Anne was CNZ-THW Writer in Residence at the IIML!

Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 23h

"The book that made me laugh: The Ice Shelf by Anne Kennedy. From the first page... it is a hoot. I especially love the way she skewers writing workshops and literary festivals."

Totally agree with @wendmyway.bsky.social – The Ice Shelf is an iconic, edgy, and oddly underrated instant classic.

‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…’: Wendy Parkins on the book everyone should read

Wendy Parkins, winner of best first book at the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards, recommends a must-read Victorian 'trauma novel'.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 1d

'Wildly informative and generous…begins as an inquiry into the world of climate change activism and swiftly unfolds into an interrogation of the racist hierarchy of knowledge.'

Māia Te Whetū reviews 'Slowing the Sun' by Nadine Hura (Bridget Williams Books, 2025) ❤️🤍🤎

www.takahe.org.nz/takahe-114/

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Raine Hananui @whakatipu.bsky.social · 1d

I have a Master of Environmental Science and I and many of my science cohort are in the same situation - can't get a full-time job because there are almost no grad/entry level jobs out there www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Shrinking job market forces scientists to pursue careers offshore

After 13 years studying for a biology degree, Ian has had to apply - unsuccessfully - for labouring jobs.

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Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social · 1d

#pukapuka Today’s finds: Natalie Morrison’s ‘Pins’ (fab cover, @toddatticus.bsky.social!) and H G Parry’s debut bookish fantasy, ‘The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep’. Wellington lit contains multitudes.

Two books from Wellington writers, face up, side by side. On the left is Pins, a slim volume of poetry from Natalie Morrison, featuring a packet of pins on a background I think of as duck-egg or maybe cerulean, but which the Former Public Servant says he calls teal. Let’s call it grue and let your native language decide for you.

And on the right, H G Parry’s novel featuring an image of a bookshelf of leather-bound tomes, in tones of black, red and brown.

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 1d

“I really want people to know that no one is immune to this, anyone can get long Covid. I didn't think it would happen to me.” Read it and weep:
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 1d

We had a discussion of this in June last year. Some NZ Uni's activated AI detection software options (Massey made the news www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3503... ). Others took a look at the false positive rate and went "No way are we going to accuse 1000s of students of things they didn't do".

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 1d

University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 2d

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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Given Words winning poems

Given Words, established and curated by poet Charles Olsen for ten years, has been a regular feature of Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day. After deliberating alongside Pat White and Sophia W…

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

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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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has been awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

www.nobelprize.org

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 2d

Mōrena

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 2d

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 2d

NZ's best book reviewer on a major biography of the caustic, abrasive, sarcastic and loveable Chris Knox.

Book of the Week: To Chris with love

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 2d

Ingrid Horrocks reading from her Mary Wollstonecraft story at a packed launch for All Her Lives tonight - books were flying out the door!

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 2d

Why we must take measles seriously (and get vaccinated)

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 2d

Comment from Auckland University: Measles vaccination levels in NZ have dipped well below that necessary for herd immunity, exposing us to diseases we thought we’d consigned to history.

Open the door to measles, and it won't stop there

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight at Unity Books, our 2024 Writer in Residence Ingrid Horrocks launches the book she wrote that year - come and celebrate All Her Lives at 6pm!

All Her Lives

All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in ...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost

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Dougal McNeill @dougalmcneill.bsky.social · 3d

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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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 3d

It's that time again, a #nzpol 🧵
What starts online doesn’t stay online.
The 2025 local elections have become the most toxic in memory, w candidates (esp women) harassed & forced to campaign from home. This is what happens when we treat online abuse as “just words”
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Scares the pants off me’: Toxicity surges in local elections

This year’s council elections are turning into the nastiest in memory, with a growing fear that online abuse could spill over into real-world violence.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social · 3d

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The coming of the Māori, and “this long uneasy history of being measured by someone else’s stick”: An essay on the first migration

An essay by Talia Marshall, taken from her readings of two books published by Bridget Williams - the award-winning Tangata Whenua, and the condensed version, The First Migration: Maori Origins 3000BC-...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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