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Jane Bloomfield

@janebloomfield.bsky.social
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Poetry & CNF in @takehe #Tarot #Turbine|Kapohau, @newsroom @1964Journal #a fine line @dustpoetry UK @frazzledlit Ireland| Finalist in the NZCYA Book Awards once. Liquorice Allsorts: janebloomfieldblog.blogspot.com

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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In Sheep News New Zealand:
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Rare quadruplets delight mum Muffin and her owner
Rare quadruplets delight mum Muffin and her owner
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Back when smoking cigarettes made you cool #poem #poetry
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"You've Come A Long Way Baby" - Oh Virginia - a poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New #poem 'Pretty Little Blackbird' in Tarot #poetry issue 12
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Laundry lament #poem
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In today’s NZ Herald
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
#AprilFools prank by The Husband lol. Metaphorical Ice Tea.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
English stained glass artist Ann Sotheran, 'Isa's hare' (2011) #WomensArt
Stained glass artwork featuring a sitting hare among grasses depicted on green panels of glass
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Distracting myself with gambling and hair straighteners. Always back a Kiwi horse! #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Fine young creatives - my daughter Eloise #fashion #newzealand
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One to Watch: Shop Squeeze - FashioNZ
In a landscape increasingly defined by speed and saturation, Shop Squeeze arrives with a sense of quiet clarity.
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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 03/03/2026
An honour for me and a lovely thing for my book. So pleased that 'Sick Power Trip' is shortlisted in the Ockhams. Full of gratitude. 🩵 🩷 @thwupbooks.bsky.social www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...
Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Black Sugarcane by Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Satupa‘itea, Faleālupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu) (Te Herenga Waka University Press)*

No Good by Sophie van Waardenberg (Auckland University Press)*

Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy (Te Herenga Waka University Press)

Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson (Auckland University Press)

* = first book
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Giddy up! Pony #poem in 1964 Journal!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Real fruit ice cream anyone? Pic throwback to 2020 when Blueberry Oob ruled the world. #poetry
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Throwback to 2016!
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Things to do in Queenstown apart from writing best-selling children’s books: A photoessay by Jane Bloomfield
A photoessay of Queenstown by local writer Jane Bloomfield. It looks nice also really LONELY
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Grab your smelling-salts and get along to Wuthering Heights the movie! It's entertaining, horny and EB stalwarts can criticise all they like.
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New #poem in RightHandPointing dot net - Issue 162 😀
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Roll call!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Signing off another short n sweet #peony pick with an ode!
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Ode to Princess Peony (with Nicki Minaj Riffs)
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
My week in submissions review: 2 poems longlisted 1 CNZ shortlisted 1 poem final shortlist violin strings wail
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Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We'll be sending out all responses to submissions for Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social on Saturday 6th December. And yes, it will be me pushing the Big Red Button, same as usual!
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peter griffin points at a do not push button
ALT: peter griffin points at a do not push button
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Heart App and Woodpecker musings #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Got a #poem in print!
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Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
My litmag Frazzled Lit is open for submissions till 31st Ocober. Loving what is coming in so far! But we'd especially love to see more #poetry from the #poetrycommunity! @louloumach.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Reshares appreciated! @frazzledlit.bsky.social www.frazzledlit.com
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The Sunday Poem, by Jane Bloomfield newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/12/t...
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The Sunday Poem, by Jane Bloomfield
The taste of alcohol on 'eager girl lips'
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I'm at the Whittakers Almond Gold Kingsize blocks stage of my novel!!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
When writing a novel I use this word as my book mark. Just hit find and there you are. Pretty sure I stole this from fellow writer, Melinda Szymanik!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Seeing how many posts I can do before I get a 'heart'. And truffles.
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We all have a story about a pet goldfish? Spartacus the Brave #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
#Jesus #childhoodmemories #Grandfather #prosepoetry
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I Bet You Haven't Seen Jesus's Poo
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Writing a novel = your average daily screentime last week was 5hours 43 minutes.
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Questions, questions and dragonflies a #Friday #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A message from Dame Fiona to Erica Stanford newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/02/a... wrapped up in a perfect #poem
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A message from Dame Fiona to Erica Stanford
An open poem to the Minister of Teachers from Dame Fiona Kidman
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Pinch me moment as warm-up act for New Zealand #Poet Laureate, Chris Tse! Friday night @The Sherwood, Queenstown.
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Poetry acceptance! In an anthology! With paper pages! Just when I thought I'd never get another poem accepted!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Just received my 6th rejection from takahē mag. A poetry nut I cannot seem to crack. Oh well, five previously submitted poems have found homes elsewhere and a hawk just flew past my window. Onwards!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A few words of worry about bombs dropping while sunbathing beside the Ionian Sea. #prosepoem
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Humans Can Normalise Anything
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
2014 #poem about my Nana. Written in an Owen Marshall course. Start with "My ...", repeat (borrowed from another writer!)
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On Mums and Matriarchs
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Bellbird on Granny Smith Tree #winter
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New #poem sad poem. Thanks to Kit Willet for publishing in June #10 Tarot Poetry Journal. #kiwipoets #poetry
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
V happy to see my #poem in the Autumn 25 issue of - a fine line! #NZPS Many thanks to lovely ed, #CadenceChung
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
#Poetry mail! Mad Diva, Cadence Chung #OtagoUniPress
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
One for all of our #mums #MothersDay #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Wordy fun with a Book-spine #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thrilled to have a #poem very dear to me forthcoming in Tarot Poetry (and I'm on the home stretch to finish the cutting back & clearing of old weeds from my 200-strong peony patch!)
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Late Bloomer's Chapbook for Sale". Not sure what I was thinking, entering a poetry competition that receives over 2500 entries lol!!!
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Remember the Chopper, the Raleigh 20, the 10 Speed? Freewheeling nostalgia in a bicycle #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
2-minute lunchtime read with loads of wild animals #haibun
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The Animals Have It
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A bit of fun with Bliss Balls and a Cumberland sausage. For Sue. #poem
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Jane Bloomfield @janebloomfield.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Green Bird on Grass" - I give you the New Zealand Bellbird | Korimako! It's that time of year when all the uneaten apples in my orchard plumpen these beauties pre winter.
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