Prompt: "stop it getting clogged up with random sites advertising windowcleaning in Canberra and other not-very-poetic things." Late Bird Prompt Cleaning windows in Canberra isUnpoetic? Well, sure not much Rhymes with Canberra, or window. But does the cleaners' demeanourShow they find cleaning demeaning? Can you do some poetic riffin'On Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin?

Resource: a brief history of the poetry chapbook, with digitized examples.Prompt: "take a page from Catullus and Darwin, and write a poem in which you talk about disliking something – particularly something utterly innocuous, like clover. Be over the top! Be a bit silly and overdramatic." Don’t Like Dogs Okay, so I don’t like dogs But, tell you what, what…

Resources: Katie Naughton’s poem, “Debt Ritual: Oysters.”, Allen Curnow’s poem, “The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.”Prompt: “write your ow…

A poem a day for April

A poem a day for April 2025

In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...