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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The wonderful Faction Press Singapore is launching this essay ezine soon. I'm in it, humbled to be beside the brilliant Filipino poet, essayist and scholar Lawrence Ypil.

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Congratulations to fellow UEA Poetry classmates Imogen Hughes @poetr-imi.bsky.social and Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social, second and third in the Disabled Poetry Prize, writing on illness and Autism. @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social www.spreadtheword.org.uk/winners-of-t...

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Gutted that Meta pirated my book, Loss Adjustment, to train AI, according to The Atlantic journal, which provides a search box. My book is about my late daughter and her suicide, for god's sake. Is there no respect? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thrilled that friend Stuart Henrys (pictured with wife Estelle) has been awarded the 2025 Science NZ Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at Parliament. Stuart, a geophysicist, leads groundbreaking research on the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand's largest fault line.

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New Zealand poet Brian Turner has died. A giant, a huge loss. At a writers festival, he saw I was lost and invited me to his table. He understood grief, and endorsed my book, Loss Adjustment. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/06/b...

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Brian Turner dies

Farewell to a major New Zealand author.

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Congrats to former UEA MA classmates,OliviaTuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social and Imogen McHugh, for being shortlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize. Lovely poets, and people. x.com/disabledpoet...

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Kind of depressed Gboyega didn't win the TS Eliot.

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thrilled to have my poem, 'baby tooth', in the Winter edition of the UK's Lighthouse Literary Journal. An honour to be amongst such wonderful poets.

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Carrie is a terrific teacher of the prose poem. This looks great.

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Victorian Heritage Week in Oamaru, NZ, and I am channeling ‘slatternly housekeeper’. Conflicted about donning the garb of the Coloniser Oppressor, but interesting to feel its own constriction. Other pix include my pilates teacher in orange frills doing the can-can.Pix: Malcolm McLeod

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm the 'Poet in the Wild' at the British Association for Romantic Studies. Thanks @adamneikirk.bsky.social for your write-up. Poems from an unpublished chapbook, publisher in hiatus. @poetrysociety.bsky.social @modernletters.bsky.social www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5662

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Romantic Poets in the Wild #7: Linda Collins – BARS Blog

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Wrote a review of Meantime, By Majella Cullinane, for the NZ Poetry Society. I've tried to make this review a conversation among poets while honouring different ways of being. www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/u...

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Huge congratulations to Dunedin poet Megan Kitching who has just been longlisted for the UK's Laurel Prize in ecowriting for her debut collection, At the Point of Seeing. Read my review here: www.nzreviewofbooks.com/at-the-point...

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At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching - Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books

The end of the world: a debut collection on 'the fragility of the earth under our feet '.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Digesting the news that between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, with only ~1280 breeding individuals between the early and middle Pleistocene. A tiny amount for the continuity of the species, yes — but a very respectable readership for any poets among them.

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Delighted that my essay on Denise Riley's trauma poetics has been accepted by the peer-reviewed Poetry as Therapy journal in the US. The essay is based on my MA dissertation at UEA. #poetry #UEA #traumawriting

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Changing the narrative on suicide - that's the theme of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept 10 and I'm on a panel discussing this. It's a free event in Dunedin with amazing speakers including Matthew Kiore and writer Jesse Bering. #teaorerekura #suicideprevention #jessebering

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

This Dunedin event for NZ National Poetry Day on Aug 23 - Friday! - is going to be amazing. I'm reading a poem written in collaboration with Brenda Finlayson. Come for the line breaks, stay for the sheer enjambment. Stanza room only! (that's enough puns). #poetry

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Launching in May: I've an essay in this anthology, Otherhood, which asks: Am I mother, or other? Contributors include Golriz Ghahraman, Shaneel Lal, Hinemoa Baker and Paula Morris. Published by MUP. Editors include the fab @kathrynvanbeek.bsky.social

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Poetry woes...readers wherefore art thou? Etc: roguestrands.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-...

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Hugely pleased that fellow UEA Poetry MA grad A.V Bridgwood is Commended in the Poetry Society's national contest. Alice's poem is stunning. Our professor, Tiffany Atkinson, is longlisted.

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Delighted that poet Megan Kitching's At the Point of Seeing is shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards. I reviewed it for the NZ Review of Books site recently. #nzreviewofbooks

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Congrats to Norwich poet and friend Sue Burge for winning the Mslexia Poetry Contest. (I was runner-up two years ago.)

Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

I chat to young UK poet and fellow UEA alumna Olivia Tuck in this podcast at @poetrynon-stop run by Patrick Widdess in Norwich. Cue: poetry, laughs, tears. poetrynonstop.com/2024/02/16/e...

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Very moved to learn today that young people include my book, Loss Adjustment (right), as Singapore Literature.I lived there 27 years on a work pass but as I was not a citizen or PR I was ineligible for arts funding, panels, etc. So difficult to raise awareness about the book & suicide prevention.

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Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

A Singapore colleague came across this much-thumbed copy of my book, Loss Adjustment, in the upgraded Central Library. It even has Post-it notes! Grateful the book is still reaching those who need to read it. Photo credit: Suling Lin; #LossAdjustment #memoir #suicideprevention #EthosBooks