johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026youtu.be/SvWwpmESJP8?...youtu.beTortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "Daniel"YouTube video by sbritt 110
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialThe Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Haunting Barbadoes Street: John Summers’ lost Christchurchthespinoff.co.nzHaunting Barbadoes Street: John Summers’ lost Christchurch'My mother believed that every part of the city was dangerous after dark, but most of all she said this about Barbadoes Street.' 062
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialThe Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Lost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewedthespinoff.co.nzLost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewedWhat happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong?... 064
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Thanks @clairemabey.bsky.social for this careful and close reading of both my book and the subject of lostness over at the Spinoff share.google/wzv3orXBCwso...share.googleLost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewedWhat happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong? 021
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialIIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Claire Mabey on John Summers’s ‘spooky, compelling, strangely gentle book’ thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-09-...thespinoff.co.nzLost in the New Zealand bush: John Summers’ Green Sea, reviewedWhat happens when something that is supposed to be so good for us goes wrong? 052
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Launching soon in Otautahi Christchurch! 012
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thanks Philip for this thoughtful and attentive piece about my book! 022
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialThe Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What not to miss at WORD Christchurch 2026thespinoff.co.nzWhat not to miss at WORD Christchurch 2026From Dave Dobbyn to small presses to memoir, WORD Christchurch packs a punch.... 033
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026John Summers’ worst nightmare is getting lost in the bush. Death lurks at the edge of his fear, as well as cold, hunger, loneliness and humiliation. But what is the experience of being lost in the New Zealand bush actually like? Green Sea: Lost in the New Zealand Bush is out on 10 September 2026. 162
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 17/02/2026We're looking forward to sharing this with you on 14 May! Have This Heart by Lawrence Patchett is a compulsively readable story collection about men at work, men trying to do better, and what happens when your life doesn't let you hide. Tightly coiled, tender, and unforgettable. 183
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Thinking how Dracula must have whipped around with a broom before Jonathan Harker arrived 000
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Nice to see my short story, Base patrol in this week's Listener. 020
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2025We're thrilled to announce that in February 2026, Breton Dukes will make his debut as a novelist with Party Boy, a tender, shocking and comic portrait of a man on the edge. Cover: Dudley Benson More info and pre-orders here: teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par... 195
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialPip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Also in February 2026 new Breton Dukes!! teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...teherengawakapress.co.nzParty BoyMarco is stressed. On one hand, he’s a cook in a progressive city bar, a married father of three, doing all he can to raise his boys right. On the other (slightly burnt) hand, his life is chaos. Every... 042
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Ghosts of New Zealand share.google/9HTGlQZHUG4x...share.googleThere used to be ghosts in New ZealandAn essay by Wairarapa author John Summers on our faded belief that the dead come back to haunt us. 010
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025'Gee's O Trilogy was so important to me when I was 10. I met the guy in my late 30s and didn't tell him this of course. We are supposed to look back and regret such cowardly moments but I don't. There's an honour in not bothering people.' —Nick Ascroft. www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3608... 074
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Don't believe anyone really likes peppermint. 000
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialMichael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Fred Tucker's Billiard Room, Helensville, 1915 Photo: Auckland Museum; www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/col... 001
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Come along and see Nick Ascroft get shot out of a cannon! Or so I assume, I didn't really read the details 021
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Also... I Got His Blood on Me - Lawrence Patchett A Mistake - Carl Shuker Selected Poems - Jenny Bornholdt 002
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Small sample of books on sale today: What Sort of Man - Breton Dukes Everything We Hoped For - Pip Adam Memorandum of Understanding - Bill Nelson Vanilla Wine - Geoff Cochrane Can You Tolerate This - Ashleigh Young The Commercial Hotel - some guy? Back with the Human Condition - Nick Ascroft 011
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialjohnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...share.googleThe Commercial HotelWhen John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ... 022
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Stuck on this exercise-hotdog cycle 000
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialAnthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Get 50% off my #pukapuka Home Theatre and heaps of other titles in this @thwupbooks.bsky.social sale 📚💚 teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/hom...teherengawakapress.co.nzHome TheatreWinner of the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction, 2023 Ockham NZ Book Awards Welcome to the Repertory Apartments—where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play ... 065
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialTina Makereti @tinamakereti.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Fantastic creative nonfiction on sale! 154
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Nice to hear that piece resonated with you. Thank you! 000
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Belated reminder that my book The Commercial Hotel is among those available half price on the THWUP website until the end of the month share.google/v2PPe3so41VH...share.googleThe Commercial HotelWhen John Summers moved to a small town in the Wairarapa and began to look closely at the less-celebrated aspects of local life – our club rooms, freezing works, night trains, hotel pubs, landfills – ... 022
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialJames Gardner @jegcomposer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Great article on Raymond Ching and the huia… 012
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 18/07/2025RIP Connie Francis youtu.be/gfoBKJf0wLQ?...youtu.beSiboneyYouTube video by Connie Francis - Topic 000
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialRobert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 21/06/2025I wrote about billionaire space dreams, interstellar inequality, and Pip Adam's extraordinary new novel, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...theatlantic.comA Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer SpaceIn Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility. 1178
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Sad to read this. Hope it turns up. 020
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialTe Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 11/05/2025A new book by Nick Ascroft! This truly terrific collection is about lost friends, new frailties, new braveries, and being stuck in an organ pipe during recital and not wanting to bother anyone about it. It's What He Would've Wanted is out in September. 🧨 teherengawakapress.co.nz/it-s-what-he... 174
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Spent a pleasant morning at Pick-a-Part, Taita 020
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Incredible poem by @erikkennedy.com www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/2024-content...bestnewzealandpoems.org.nzErik Kennedy 2024 – ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS 130
Reposted by @johnhsummers.bsky.socialBill Nelson @softmagnificence.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I'm reading some poems tonight in Christchurch with the excellent Joan Fleming and Zoë Deans if anyone is around. It'll be great! canterburypoets.org.nz/coming-up/canterburypoets.org.nzComing UpAutumn 2025 SeasonThursdays, 6 – 27 March6.30 pm to 8.30 pm Deans, Fitchett, Fleming, Gray, Green, Morgan, Morton, Nelson, Pickens, Taylor … and maybe YOU? Download your own pdf copy of the poster … 021
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 08/03/2025My piece in the latest issue of @nzgeo.bsky.social about artist Ray Ching and huia, taxidermy and obsession www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-bi...nzgeo.comA bird in the handHuia were last seen alive in 1907, according to official records. But the New Zealand bird artist Raymond Ching tells another story. A Wellington taxidermist killed a trio of the birds in 1912, Ching ... 133
johnhsummers.bsky.social @johnhsummers.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I reviewed Simon Burt's Route 52 for Newsroom, a book about caravans and small towns newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/27/b... 030
