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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 8h

Is that WAKE, Elizabeth Knox’s horror novel, on Jacinda’s bedside table during Covid? Almost yelled out in the theatre. Really good film anyway. PRIME MINISTER @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

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Ed @actuallyedwin.bsky.social · 14h

Has this been published here?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 18h

Our Finance Minister putting her English Literature degree to good use, inspiring. #nzpol

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 19h

Heh.

Willis told Morning Report the phrase often cropped up in politics and dated back to the time of William Shakespeare, who referred to calling off the hounds in his play Julius Caesar.

The actual quote from Julius Caesar is: "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 20h

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau hits out in final council speech
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Members around this table feeding defamatory rumour': Tory Whanau signs off, and hits out

Critics, colleagues and bullies: no one spared in Wellington mayor Tory Whanau’s parting shot.

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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 21h

We'd love to have a huge turn out for Nic's talk. Please help spread the word. There are downloadable pdf adverts in the link below. They can be emailed or printed. If you work in a public space (e.g. Library) you could help by printing and posting one of the flyers. Ngā mihi nui!

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 21h

Why We Write the Extra Details: Kate Cayley, author of Property (out today), on the Intersection of Politics, Art, and the Private Self: lithub.com/why-we-write...

Why We Write the Extra Details

Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, p…

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 1d

Publication day for Taylor's Version! I'm so happy for my baby and for all the work @hachetteus.bsky.social & @johnmurrays.bsky.social did to bring her out into the world. Consider an order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...

Taylor’s Version

“With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit” (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry—and the celebrity—...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve ever been published in takahē, we want to add you to our starter pack! Leave us a comment or DM 🖤

go.bsky.app/MEWV1RM

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 1d

These are the sorts of things you can do if you're serious about art, creativity, and growing an economy

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social · 1d

holla I am looking for manuscript assessment proofreading and editing mahi mostly because I'm pohara but also it stops me from losing my mind to entropy when I engage with other people about their work

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 1d

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The small god is still inventing himself

Last week scarlet & pale
then just a hint of blue

always changing
always a little overdue

yesterday he was apples
today mostly apples

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Feana Tu’akoi @feanatuakoi.bsky.social · 2d

‘the secret beauty
of the word ‘No’’ ☝🏽

archive-yvonnezlam.bsky.social @archive-yvonnezlam.bsky.social · Mar 31

My last early post for Poetry Month, which starts tomorrow. “After Pilates” by Elizabeth Smither

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 2d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social · 2d

Sophie van Waardenberg on the sonnet: "For me, they’re good containers because you have to be a bit declamatory, a bit argumentative, and then you can betray yourself, you can cast doubt on the whole thing, you can shrug the whole thing off and go out into the sunlight." badapple.gay/2025/08/08/v...

Very Good, In Fact – bad apple

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 2d

'So many of your daily problems are caused by council. They get away with it because everyone thinks they’re boring and irrelevant.'

Vote!

@haydendonnell.bsky.social

City is made of council

Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 2d

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

Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Eager by Maia Armistead

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…

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 2d

Mengzhu Fu: We all have a stake in the future of this place
e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...

We all have a stake in the future of this place | E-Tangata

“For those of us who’ve been pressured to assimilate into Pākehā culture, it’s tempting to think that assimilating into Māori culture is respectful. But this is not what’s being asked of us.” — Mengzh...

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 2d

I've just realised that the Margaret Wise Brown who wrote the great Goodnight, Moon is also the MWB who commissioned Gertrude Stein's book for children, The World is Round. This is a delightful connection to make on the bedroom shelves. And this story about the amusing cake is the perfect footnote.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’

A page from Leonard Marcus’s biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon (1992) in which he describes MWB receiving the manuscript of Gertrude Stein’s children’s book, The World is Round. ‘In the happy confusion, everyone forgot about supper and Margaret had not thought to pick up refreshments. The only food in the house was an amusing cake in the shape of a boat, which she had ordered for a friend’s going-away party and which the trio now appropriated in the name of experimental literature.’

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 2d

‘“Bumfit” was always an amusing word to chant out loud at bedtime.’

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s Ingrid Horrocks in the Writer in Residence office at the IIML that she occupied last year: next year she’ll be teaching in the MA programme while Chris Price is on leave www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608...