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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 7h

East coast, people - it will be epic! The 2025 Tui Tui Tuhia Tairāwhiti Hui 9-12 Oct is sold out but the Hui Kaituhi fringe fest continues next week 13-19 Oct. Looking fw to catching up w friends and being part of the fringe fest fun! 🤩

Check out the packed programme:
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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 2d

Poetry in Performance 2nd session Thurs 9 Oct with Gregory Kan, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong + open mic - brought to you by the Canterbury Poets’ Collective.
Tickets (incl zoom option) $10 at the door or at events.humanitix.com/copy-of-poet...

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 3d

Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque.

Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 3d

Scored a typewriter - to go with my grandmother’s unpublished(!) novel manuscript. Who knew! Found the original MS for her novel Färjan (1954) published by Schildts in Finland. Of course journos had to ask if her husband had helped her… 🙄The answer was NO.

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 5d

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 7d

Poetry in Performance kicks off today 2 Oct with Open mic and a trio of poetic firepower - see Jake Arthur, Janet Charman and Melanie McKerchar live in Ōtautahi - or join via Zoom. More poetry for the people! 😎
Tickets $10 at the door or via Humanitix
events.humanitix.com/poetry-in-pe...

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 14d

That thing around our necks has a name. Stop genocide now! 🇵🇸

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te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social · 15d

www.kuputoitakataapui.com/publications

Also have put this up on the Kupu Toi Takataapui website - comes from some of the work I did for my thesis.

Would love to build a more comprehensive list of queer Maaori fiction and poetry with you all <3

Publications — KUPU TOI TAKATAAPUI | TAKATAAPUI LITERARY JOURNAL

www.kuputoitakataapui.com

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to be part of The BIG Exhibition w 30 artists at Gover St Gallery in New Plymouth - and part of the Taranaki Fringe festival (Ten artists, one location).
OPENING NIGHT this Friday 26th Sept from 6pm at Gover St Gallery. All welcome! Bring your friends, it was a blast last year. 😎

Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 18d

Such inspiring speakers on politics, law, health & arts. Whakapapa, education & well-being and the importance of supportive partners, parents and grandparents of all genders came up again and again. On the Women in Arts panel, celebrating
Women's Centre New Plymouth's 50th at Te Whare Hononga 💜

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 21d

Spring has sprung 😎Canterbury is the place to be! Featured poets Janet Charman, Jake Arthur, Gregory Kan, Anna Jackson, Mikaela Nyman with local legends Melanie McKerchar, Lee Fraser, Philip Armstrong, Erik Kennedy, Juanita Hepi, Frankie McMillan and Sara Qasem. canterburypoets.org.nz/tickets/

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 22d

A ‘rewarding’ poetry collection ‘with flashes of Nordic noir humour’ - a delightful review and reading of my ‘Mudlarking’ poem by Harry Ricketts on Radio NZ. You may keep the skates, Harry! 😎🙏 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Book review: The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman

Harry Ricketts reviews The Anatomy of Sand by Mikaela Nyman, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.

www.rnz.co.nz

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 23d

We're celebrating 50 years of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori!

Did you know takahē publishes short fiction & poetry in Te Reo Māori with English translation?

You can also enter the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize with a poem in Te Reo with English translation. It closes at the end of this month, so kia tere!

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 23d

The Anatomy of Sand - now available in Finland! 🇫🇮 It sold out in Mariehamn 🇦🇽 but through Boklund (thanks to Ellips) it’s now possible to order my first English-language poetry collection online in the Nordic countries. Limited copies available though. 😊 www.boklund.fi/bokhandel/ly...

The Anatomy of Sand - Lyrik - Oy Boklund Ab

In an expansive new collection encompassing myths and science, the political and personal, the local and global, lyrical and technical language, from outer space to the microscopic, Nyman ask us to pa...

www.boklund.fi

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 25d

In good company! 😎Catherine Chidgey was so inspiring last night. Our writers’ talk on writing stories - and poetry! - with an eye on climate &nature for survival starts at 11:30am at Puke Ariki Library. Come join us!
#StoryWorlds

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 29d

Check it out at: pukeariki.com/event/E29084...

Event | Puke Ariki

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 29d

‘Fiction for Survival: Storytelling in the Face of Ecological Crisis’ - reflecting our changing world while holding space for hope, resilience and action. Join authors Clare Moleta, Mikaela Nyman, Tim Jones & Cassie Hart (Kāi Tahu / Kāti Māmoe). Sun 14th Sep 11:30am, Puke Ariki Library. Free event!

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · Sep 6

Nyman warns us how flawed our methods of prediction are: ‘Our technological fortress is built on a waning moon, / our sense of control but a chimera.’
— Sophie van Waardenberg reviews The Anatomy of Sand in Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books.
www.nzreviewofbooks.com/ten-thousand...

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

The takahē staff are deeply saddened at the sudden passing of our Essays Editor, Kelly Ana Morey, and send heartfelt condolences to her whānau, friends, and all those in the writing community who will feel this great loss.

'Sharp, Witty, Unapologetic' - Shock Loss of Acclaimed Writer

The literary community is reeling after the loss of Kelly Ana Morey (1968-2025) - friend and colleague Andrew Wood pens an emotional tribute.

thebigidea.nz

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Women’s Centre New Plymouth celebrates its 50th w discussions on women in politics, women in law, women in art, heroic bitches etc on Saturday 20 Sept.
For the full programme and to register, see: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Or email the fab admin person at [email protected] (she’s real)

Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · Aug 30

“Literature has a democratic function only because it doesn’t preach – if you preach then you become authoritarian”
— Lea Ypi

Ypi’s memoir ‘Free‘ detailed her experience of growing up in Albania. Can’t wait to read her new book!
theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · Aug 29

Nästa helg är det dags för Konstrundan Finland - Open Studios i hela landet! 🇫🇮Maria Rosenlöf visar fotografier & video i Vårdö, inkl vår gemensamma poetiska videofilm med 2 av mina dikter. Kom till Grundsunda och kolla utbudet! ❤ På Åland är det 39 konstnärer som deltar i år! 🇦🇽

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · Aug 29

Driven to total silliness by a month of packing and posting 1500 books sold in the August sale, the THWUP team are shown here cowering together in a stairwell with various volumes of Selected Poems on their heads. Buy some Selected Poems! Half price!
teherengawakapress.co.nz/collections/...

A photo taken from above of five people on a stairwell, all holding a book over their head so you can't see their face. The books, clockwise from the left, are: Vincent O'Sullivan, BEING HERE, Selected Poems; Jenny Bornholdt, Miss New Zealand, Selected Poems; Bill Manhire, Selected Poems; James Brown, Selected Poems; and Harry Ricketts, Selected Poems.

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · Aug 28

Meeting my fabulous publisher Ralf Andtbacka, Ellips, in Vasa, Finland. Award-winning Finnish-Swedish poet and critic who has supported the lifeblood of poets and poetry in Finland and internationally for decades.

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Anatomy of Sand in Mariehamns Bokhandel in the Åland Islands 😎

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