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Paula Green
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 1h
Special Laureate event indeed plus tributes to Brian Turner and Vincent O'Sullivan nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/09/p...
Poetry Shelf Noticeboard: Laureates line up: a special poetry event with our most celebrated poets
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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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…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 1d
Loved this poem for ages, and now a back and present story nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/08/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Harry Ricketts
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 · 1d
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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Anne-Marie Te Whiu poetry launch
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 1d
for all young poets Y0 - Y8 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/p...
Poetry Box October poem challenge: Aotearoa Trees
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.…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 2d
A gift of a book! nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/p...
Poetry Box review: Rākau The Ancient Forests of Aotearoa by Ned Barraud
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…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 3d
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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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 5d
First in the Poetry Shelf protest series nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/03/p...
Poetry Shelf Protest Poems: GAZA
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…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 6d
Launching a new series - Gaza poems tomorrow thanks @JohnJCampbell @HelenClarkNZ @pacificraft Anne Salmond nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/02/p...
Poetry Shelf Protests: an introduction
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…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 8d
So loving this new series! A Tuesday toast to the wonderful Jackson! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/01/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Jackson McCarthy
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, …
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 8d
vote now www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Share your thoughts on NZ’s stance on a Palestinian state
This week, we’re asking you, our readers, to share your perspectives on the conflict in Gaza.
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 8d
a gem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/30/p...
Poetry Shelf review: A Shell-Print of Waves – Aramoana poems ed David Eggleton and Michelle Elvy
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 …
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 10d
Breathe in this poem and hold it close nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/29/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Rejuvenate’ by Aroha Witinitara
Rejuvenate Sometimes you reach a pointtipping                        breakingwhere you’…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 11d
Paula Green
shame shame shame on these cowards

New Zealand says no to recognising Palestine, for now www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces
The government has decided against recognising Palestinian statehood, retaining its "when, not if" position.
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 13d
Tune in!
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Poetry Shelf noticeboard: A Columbian/NZ poetry project
A Columbian/NZ poetry project curated by Trevor Hayes. Details here.
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 14d
celebrating a tremendous issue of Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 with a review and ten readings

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Poetry Shelf review and readings: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025 – breath
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 · 16d
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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…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 21d
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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Poetry Box September challenge: Celebrating te reo Māori
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. …
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 21d
there is just so much to love about this book - I hope every poetry fan gets a copy!

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Poetry Shelf review and reading: Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy
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&#…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 22d
Fabulous line-up! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/09/17/p...
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Poetry in Performance in Ōtautahi
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 22d
Stand up and address this issue please GOVT!!!! 'Medical migrant' seeks life in Australia www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Medical migrant' seeks life in Australia
"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 · 23d
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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 · 23d
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…
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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 24d
We love to see our former Schools Poetry Award winners and finalists go on to do great things: check out 2019 winner Xiaole Zhan's bio note at the end of this poem!
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 24d
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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Year of the snake’ by Xiaole Zhan
Year of the snake The first timeI weighed myselfI was a teenager.I was worriedI was underweightfor a blood drive. People told meI was prettyin high school. Thinking backall I hear isskinny. Being d…
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 24d
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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘Year of the snake’ by Xiaole Zhan
Year of the snake The first timeI weighed myselfI was a teenager.I was worriedI was underweightfor a blood drive. People told meI was prettyin high school. Thinking backall I hear isskinny. Being d…
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