Paula Green
@paulajoygreen.bsky.social
poet, blogger, children's author
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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These cafe readings are moving me so much - thank you nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/21/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Readings: Harry Ricketts
Harry reads from Bonfires on the Ice, along with earlier poems. Harry Ricketts taught for many years in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. He has published …
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November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
These cafe readings are moving me so much - thank you nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/21/p...
love the way a poem holds a moment and then reverberates beyond nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/17/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Visitors with Intent by Diane Brown
Visitors with Intent On the radio, Jesse’s in Dunedin, interviewing localsspinning our attractions, the usual tropes, wildlife,lack of traffic, the cold, how much they love it. ‘Safe for students,”…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
love the way a poem holds a moment and then reverberates beyond nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/17/p...
terrific virtual cafe reading for the weekend nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/14/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Readings: Aruna Joy Bhakta
Aruna reads a selection of her poetry Aruna Joy Bhakta (she/her) grew up in New Plymouth, and went on to study her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Classics Studies. She currently lives in…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
terrific virtual cafe reading for the weekend nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/14/p...
Listen to Greg read! This fast track opencast song! And weep. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/12/p...
Poetry Shelf Protests: Gregory O’Brien two poems, a brief note and an audio
Two poems for the preservation of Thomson Gorge, Central Otago I Dunstan Daybook The undescribed mothThe unrecorded native daisyThe unsung rowanberriesThe unheeded bidibidThe unimpeded …
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November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Listen to Greg read! This fast track opencast song! And weep. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/12/p...
This poem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Statues by David Eggleton
Statues The disappeared, the totalled, those who ain’t there;whether hollow, solid, reinforced, boltedor cemented to a pedestal,nothing is as invisible as a monument,until you turn the spotli…
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November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This poem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/07/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry 2025: Dinah Hawken
Poetry Shelf offers a bouquet of warm congratulations! To celebrate Dinah Hawken as the 2025 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, I am reposting a poem she picked from Small St…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Poetry Shelf celebrates! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/07/p...
Tomorrow night at Time Out Bookshop! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Harry Ricketts and Steve Braunias in conversation
It’s getting colder as the flamesrise from the bonfires, real and virtual.See how they flicker in the darkling air. What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once t…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Tomorrow night at Time Out Bookshop! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
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Reposted by Paula Green
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
The other book that inspired November's poem challenge on Poetry Box
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The other book that inspired November's poem challenge on Poetry Box
a cool poem challenge for young poets in Aotearoa nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...
Poetry Box November poem challenge: Inspirations
Margaret Mahy’s Pockets In Margaret’s pockets you’ll findrhyme and delight and trampoline rhythms tin can bands and remarkable cakesGeorge’s pet and dashing dogsbubble troub…
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November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
a cool poem challenge for young poets in Aotearoa nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...