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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

New album release from our eldest (23) . . . who is a drummer. I've listened to it so much, I woke up at 3 a.m. hearing whole songs unspooling in my mind's ear (comforting: like the soft glow of a night light) . . . Free to sample here! #aotearoa #jazz #newzealand #wellington #dunedin

abeysparks.bandcamp.com

BEHOLD THE ORB, by abey sparks

12 track album

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A piece commissioned a couple of months ago & just published. 📚📖 #pukapuka #aotearoa #fiction #poetry #Ireland #Ukraine www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3606...

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The Post

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I have a new essay/memoir piece, centering around a childhood friendship, up at North & South magazine. I hope it finds the readers who need it. 💛🌟💛🌟 #pukapuka #memoir #aotearoa #creativenonfiction #nonfiction northandsouth.co.nz/2025/04/23/s...

Photo of two young girls balancing on a ledge or slope together, against a sunset.

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Phil Twyford @philtwyford.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The students of Waitākere College have started this petition for the reinstatement of the original school lunches programme. (You know, the locally-made, fresh, nutritious and tasty one that was delivered on time.) Please sign the petition and share this post. petitions.parliament.nz/f4fff921-4e5...

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The current school lunch programme is effectively worsening poverty in Aotearoa. Please help stop the slop. Petition below. #schoollunches #socialinvestment #education chng.it/fyJCNQ5ndm

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Sign the Petition

Reinstate Healthy and Nutritious School Lunches

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Fantastic news for @louisewallace.bsky.social !! Very proud and delighted to see, and share, and shout about this news. Giddy with it! #pukapuka #Aotearoa #NZ #writers

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Spinoff brings facts, joy, wisdom, comedy, and tbh I've donated to support these things but also in the hope it reconsiders its decision to cut The Friday Poem!!

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

My new book of poems, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit is launching this Thursday. Published by Otago University Press. Gorgeous cover art by Laura Williams. Design by Fiona Moffat. Edited by Anna Hodge. #pukapuka #Aotearoa #poetry #otagounipress

Cover image of Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit: poems by Emma Neale

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Janet Frame's 100th birthday celebrations continue all week! 🎂 This article raises several glasses to her writing and her steely determination. Thank you, Janet Frame, for your extraordinary example. 📚. #pukapuka #aotearoa #writers #JanetFrame #authors #fiction #poetry newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/28/j...

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Janet, 100

A visit to Ōamaru to mark the centenary of Janet Frame, born August 28, 1924

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Would a collective of halls be a haul? Attentive, lyrical, and memorable National Poetry Day to all who celebrate it!

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

The image illustrating this story is definitely worth a share! Photo by Ivan Rogers. Story first published by Fish Publishing and now online at Reading Room. #pukapuka #fiction #shortstories newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/03/s...

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Short story: Hitch, by Emma Neale

A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Apopros of nothing other than the love of an Elizabeth Bishop poem (and the fact that it's winter here in the southern hemisphere):

Image of 'Cirque d'Hiver' by Elizabeth Bishop: the page is pinned down by a small ceramic figurine of a unicorn.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

The @pacificraft.bsky.social couplets here are sharp as a tack, and witty to boot. Fist bump to Paula Green, curator!

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Remembering Vincent O’Sullivan. 🖤 #Aotearoa #pukapuka

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

😡I guess for hospital visits soon you'll need to take your own linen, water bottle, pillow, food, torch, camp chair & any painkiller you can afford. & perhaps either rent a hospital gown, cut up your own nightgown, or agree to nude surgery, to save on laundry costs. www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Hospitals asked to save total of $105m by July

New Zealand's public hospitals have been given the target to save a total of $105 million by July this year.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Nowt so queer as taste: this is a beautifully sensitive work on grief, giftedness, intimacy and madness which, to my mind, would knock at least one other novel off the Ockham short list. Don’t forget about the long list, book lovers!! #aotearoa #pukapuka

Cover image from Anna Smaill’s novel Bird Life. It shows a crow in flight.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 13/04/2024

A strong, bite-sized novel, or a narrative in poetic struck-matches. It reminds me of Janet Frame’s comment, that she thought of all her novels as experiments. Maybe genre-categories will turn to ash, too, in the hands of this short but punchy publication. #pukapuka #aotearoa

The cover of Louise Wallace’s book Ash; it shows a colourful, chaotic basket of laundry with a volcanic explosion in the distance.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

An enjoyably dry short story that captures many of the little modern-life obstacles that add up to a weird soul tinnitus.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

We chatted with Gregory Bennett, whose story 'Heat Death of the Internet' was published in our 110th issue and struck a chord with readers, amassing over 1600 views in the first week! www.takahe.org.nz/latest-news/

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Quick and easy form to fill in with feedback on NZ’s Covid response. In my case, it’s mainly gratitude that vulnerable family members were protected. Please help make sure the enquiry isn’t conspiracy hijacked …. haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

My first piece of historical fiction is up at this link! It's about a startling family encounter with a real figure on the run in the 1900s. Dedicated to my maternal grandmother, Dorothy Pearson. 🥰👒🎩 🐎🍥 #pukapuka #aotearoa #Writers #Books #historical #fiction www.mindfood.com/article/shor...

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Short Story: Black Straw Hat | MiNDFOOD Competition

She was always running, but one story of Granny’s stopped this girl dead in her tracks ... the day the man in the straw boater arrived.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Stunning. A contemporary lament with piercing clarity and musicality. #poetry #pukapuka #writers and #books

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Just watched a vid of Luxon saying he isn’t personally aware of NZ’s obligations to prevent genocide & that the q should be directed to the relevant minister & I had a revelation: he’s behaving like a CEO where responsibilities are delegated to managers of departments who then report back to him.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

A stunning, measured sequence I’m late to: it’s full of compassion, restrained anger, each poem quietly controlled and deftly laid down so it’s all like a winning hand in a high stakes card game. Wow. #poetry #writers #CorneliusEady

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Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

The DCC has brought Forbury Park! This is a former horse track in the heart of South Dunedin, built on an old wetland right. The potential for wetland restoration is massive and a sensitive transformation will be game-changing for one of NZs most flood-prone areas.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I have a new poem at this link ... this competition has some amazing financial support from generous sponsors. Happy Birthday, Robbie! #pukapuka #poetry #Aotearoa # RobbieBurns Www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ro...

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

. Coming Up This Month Emptiness returns to the nest. You can just make out the little disappointments. Not birds exactly but quite like birds. And the dog still barks all the way to the beach. He always wanted better things, but is making do. .

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Little snapdragon seed pods that look like riroriro or tiny finches. (3 of the beaks are pencil enhanced here, confession.)

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

I hoped to see orca or a southern right whale as an auspicious sign today on some birthday outings. And what I got was … this magnificent stinkhorn!

A brown goop filled, red tentacled, fungal stinkhorn!

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

A wonderful book: a mojito of drollery, honesty, poignancy, wit & the bittersweet spectre of looking after elderly loved ones; all stirred in with wicked craft advice. ‘I don’t think writing is that hard, as long as you’re comfortable with failure on every single level.’

Book cover of Elizabeth McCracken’s The Hero of this Book

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Ditto. The outright racism & the hypocrisy re hate speech is galling. As is having people so obtuse about the creative arts in roles of power over them: people who are actually using (abusing) the arts. E.g. the art of rhetoric, public speaking, attempts at persuasive language, even, hmmm, dancing.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Minister for Pollution, Increasing Climate Stress and Heat Death, Simeon Brown, says: stop trying to find productive solutions to the problems facing us. www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

It probably seems ridiculous to think that in a few years we might not have daily passenger services across Cook Strait. But I can’t help thinking that not much over 20 years ago, not having daily trains on the main trunk line Auckland-Wellington would have seemed outrageous, too

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Shared with me by a former GP friend: on health equity in NZ #Aotearoa #politics www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opin...

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Good piece in the ODT about med school affirmative action pathways 'for Maori, Pasifika, and rural students, as well as those from low socioeconomic and refugee backgrounds'. I hope like hell that new govt. actually reads real data. www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

My programme has a position for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication - it would be fantastic if this ad could be shared widely across academic and Ao/NZ bluesky #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...

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View our academic and professional staff vacancies.

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Trying #shortstories #shortfiction & #ecofiction tags too. (Like trying new paper darts to see if they fly 😅)

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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

I have a new story up @ Headland Literary Journal ... written as a bit of disobedience! I read some rules about flash & speculative fiction & wanted to see if I could break a couple of them: but still pull off a story. #flashfiction #fiction #writing #Aotearoa headland.org.nz/issues/issue...

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Switchskin | Headland

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

"At the official unveiling of the coalition agreements last week, Luxon sounded like a chuffed CEO at an AGM. David Seymour sounded like the CFO. Winston Peters sounded like a comments thread." thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-...

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Luxon honeymoon rained on by Peters and cigarettes

The freshly sworn-in prime minister was hoping not to spend his first few days stooped in a defensive crouch.

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