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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 1d

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…

Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: Laureates line up: a special poetry event with our most celebrated poets

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 2d

Special Laureate event indeed plus tributes to Brian Turner and Vincent O'Sullivan nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/09/p...

Image: Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh. Photo by Mark Beatty, 2021. Event by National Library of New ZealandCorner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand 6011Duration: 2 hr Ele…

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 2d

Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: Winners of the 2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize

The winners of the 2025 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize have been announced. The competition is now in its fifteenth year, and this year attracted 150 poems from New Zealand, the USA and…

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Harry Ricketts

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 3d

Loved this poem for ages, and now a back and present story nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/08/p...

Your Secret Life(for Jessie) I can see it all already:sitting up long after the kiwiand cat have gone to bedto do whatever it is they dowhen the screen scrambles to no…

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 3d

Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Anne-Marie Te Whiu poetry launch

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Poetry Box October poem challenge: Aotearoa Trees

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 4d

for all young poets Y0 - Y8 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/p...

Rākau: The Ancient Forests of Aotearoa,Ned, BarraudTe Papa Press, 2025my review Yesterday (October 6th) I posted a review of Ned Barraud’s sublime book, Rākau: The Ancient Forests of Aotearo.…

Poetry Box review: Rākau The Ancient Forests of Aotearoa by Ned Barraud

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 5d

A gift of a book! nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/p...

Rākau: The Ancient Forests of Aotearoa, Ned, BarraudTe Papa Press, 2025 Ned Barraud is a terrific author illustrator who has devoted enormous energy, knowledge and flair to exploring Aotearoa&#8217…

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Eager by Maia Armistead

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 5d

Wild winds outside - perfect time to linger with coffee and poem - nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/06/p...

Eager It’s four o’clock in the afternoonand your face is red as sunset.You are eager like a young dog, chasing words for salivating feelings and day by day building a rockpool full of creatures and…

Poetry Shelf Protest Poems: GAZA

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 8d

First in the Poetry Shelf protest series nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/03/p...

Pro-Palestine supporters gathered in Aotea Square (Source: Te Ahipourewa Forbes) I am dedicating my first Protest post to Gaza. I’ve already posted Gaza poems on the blog, but I’m bringing th…

Poetry Shelf Protests: an introduction

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 9d

Launching a new series - Gaza poems tomorrow thanks @JohnJCampbell @HelenClarkNZ @pacificraft Anne Salmond nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/02/p...

Hotel Emergencies The fire alarm sound: is given as a howling sound. Do not use the lifts. The optimism sound: is given as the sound of a ma…

Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Jackson McCarthy

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 10d

So loving this new series! A Tuesday toast to the wonderful Jackson! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...

Uniform Louis and I had this theory that nobody knewwe were fucking. Uniforms could do that to a bloke — help him blend in with a crowd. Only once, at a party,did I ever see him without the shirt, …

Share your thoughts on NZ’s stance on a Palestinian state

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 11d

vote now www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

This week, we’re asking you, our readers, to share your perspectives on the conflict in Gaza.

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Poetry Shelf review: A Shell-Print of Waves – Aramoana poems ed David Eggleton and Michelle Elvy

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 11d

a gem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/30/p...

A Shell-Print of Waves – Aramoana Poemseds David Eggleton and Michelle ElvyAt the Bay | I Te Kokoru, 2025 A Shell-Print of Waves – Aramoana Poems is like a poem travel guide that draws …

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Rejuvenate’ by Aroha Witinitara

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 12d

Breathe in this poem and hold it close nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/29/p...

Rejuvenate Sometimes you reach a pointtipping breakingwhere you’…

NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 14d

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shame shame shame on these cowards

New Zealand says no to recognising Palestine, for now www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The government has decided against recognising Palestinian statehood, retaining its "when, not if" position.

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 15d

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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: A Columbian/NZ poetry project

A Columbian/NZ poetry project curated by Trevor Hayes. Details here.

Poetry Shelf review and readings: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 – breath

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 16d

celebrating a tremendous issue of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 with a review and ten readings

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Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 – breathed. Tracey Slaughter, Massey University Press Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 is entitled “breath”. It is a potent theme for an anthology of po…

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 19d

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Object defined by activity (then), 2009’ by Sue Fitchett

Object defined by activity (then), 2009(Olafur Eliasson Your Curious Journey exhibition Auckland Art Gallery 2025) The trees are a green presencewrit large in our eyes &we talk about themhow sa…

Poetry Box September challenge: Celebrating te reo Māori

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 23d

Took me several days to read and reply to all the young poets - but what a special poem challenge. I think I loved reading these as much as the tamariki loved writing them
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What an astonishing arrival of poems celebrating te reo Māori over the past few weeks. I have loved reading your poems so much – they have filled me with warmth, waiata, light, story, aroha. …

Poetry Shelf review and reading: Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 24d

there is just so much to love about this book - I hope every poetry fan gets a copy!

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Sick Power Trip, Erik KennedyTe Herenga Waka University Press, 2025 Mujaddara I know. I know what’s happening elsewhere.While I mess around with my kitchenware.from ‘Autumn Couplets&#…

Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Poetry in Performance in Ōtautahi

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 24d

Fabulous line-up! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/17/p...

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'Medical migrant' seeks life in Australia

Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 24d

Stand up and address this issue please GOVT!!!! 'Medical migrant' seeks life in Australia www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"I moved because I wanted life," says a myeloma cancer patient who moved to Australia to access life prolonging drugs that are not funded in NZ.

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 25d

Blood cancer patients say govt breaking promise on life-saving drugs

Families accuse National of failing to deliver promised life-saving medicines, forcing some to fundraise or move abroad.

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 25d

love love this book nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/p...

Poetry Box review: Humble Bumble by Miriama Kamo and Craig Phillips

Humble Bumble, Miriama Kamo, illust by Craig PhillipsScholastic, 2025 This week it is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2025. A time to celebrate the language, to add new words to our vocabulary, to read stor…