oh excellent - 'Missing You' from the collection Slow Puncture by Miles Burrows. (Making a note of this.)

Looking forward to this. I don't get to quite as many poetry readings as I used to - when I was working all those years at the National Poetry Library in London.

Thanks, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social - looks helpful.

Perfect - my literalism/precision has occasionally been read as humour, but generally it's unintentional #humour #actuallyautistic

Will get a copy of no. 250.
I was looking through old issues of Landfall Tauraka recently for poetry and stories by Marilyn Duckworth - her first appearance in Landfall is in 1969 with 3 poems: ‘Karori Cemetery’, ‘Wilton Tip’ and (a top favourite of mine) ‘Wardrobe – Number 65’ (For Fleur).

Hope your reading at City Lit’s Mental Wealth Festival goes well - will be brilliant.

Thanks so much, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social 🙏 for sharing my post #AndHowAreThingsWithYou 📚 #WSPD2026 🎗️

Thank you!

Thank you @kristenphillips.bsky.social - me too.

Thanks, Mark! Phew!

Oh that's so kind of you, Swithun 💛 💚

So many writers ✍️

Have just preordered Revenge and Rabbit Holes.
I loved Strays and Waifs - will be good to get back to Freyja and cli-fi writer Bella in this 2nd in the series!

Excellent. Thanks for sharing this.
I hope that this poem travels far.
#toikupu

Yes, both. (Ps actually, 1956.) The curable ward was better than the others, although some there were given shock treatment and ended up in the Incurable ward - some old people were there because they'd been bombed out in WWII and rescued. Lots of wards.

I know someone who worked there briefly in about 1958. Have heard a few stories.