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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 18h

Staff picks for National Poetry Day! Michael, our Publisher and Managing Director, chose these three collections. To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we are having a 25% flash sale across our entire website! Use the code POETRYWEEK at checkout: www.carcanet.co.uk/

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These expert reactions are excessively polite. Put more directly political parties need to show how they’re going to put right the mess the coalition government has made. Research science has a track record of excellent returns on investment, *if it’s consistently backed*.

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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To say I did not have high hopes for this government would be an understatement, but I am nonetheless agog at the utter dogs breakfast they have turned the science funding system into in 3 short years

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National Poetry Day! 📚 We're offering 25% off EVERYTHING, all week! Head to our website checkout and use the code POETRYWEEK: www.carcanet.co.uk/search-resul...

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hear that the National Erebus Memorial will be unveiled on Sunday 13 December 2026

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've never seen Margaret Tait's film-poem based on a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I suggest you take six minutes to treat yourself today. I wrote about why I think it works so well here.

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Latch or Catch or Key

On a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To mark 100 years of WB Yeats’ 'A Vision', the NLI has made almost 300 manuscript items from the W. B. Yeats Occult Papers available to explore online. 🔎 ow.ly/6OQg50ZQvbk 📖 See a selection on display in the Old Director’s Office, 7–8 Kildare Street, on your way to our Yeats exhibition.

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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of disappointed that Nicky Hager didn’t get as far as pinning the death of the Marsden Fund on the TPU in #DirtyWork — but here’s a reminder of my original observations on the topic. It fits the same pattern as the rest #nzpol

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spread the word - the IIML’s online journal Turbine | Kapohau is open for submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction until 1 November. We want to read your work! (Please check submission guidelines before sending)

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Current Issue - TURBINE | KAPOHAU

EDITORIAL Welcome POETRY ada duffyMauatua Fa’ara Reynolds🔈Miriama GemmellRebecca HawkesAnna Hoek-SimsJacksonHebe KearneyErik KennedyTrevor LandersMitch MarksHelena Leon MayerElliot McKenzieRuben MitaH...

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Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy news 🎉 the Children’s Writer in Residence in Otago is returning in 2027! Apply by 18 Oct. The residency is made possible with support from Creative New Zealand and Robert Lord Writers Cottage. More info & link to applications here: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

P. H. Ditchfield's Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895) shows that writers have been punished for their works with more variety, more frequency, and more severity than you might expect: publicdomainreview.org/collection/b…

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026

Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

A page from a book, printed in a reddish-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961):

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This kowhai might be the most beautiful one in all of Dunedin right now! #tree #trees #Dunedin #dunnerstunner #spring #flowers

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's beautiful weather to get cosy inside a bookshop, Wellington! See you tonight 🌳 🌳

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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In this talk, Norman Meehan draws on his experience writing the lives of musicians and composers—including Jenny McLeod, Mike Nock, Bob Moses and Paul Bley – to share what he's learned. Stout Centre, VUW Wellington, 23 Sept, 4.10pm. www.wgtn.ac.nz/stout-centre...

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Writing Musical Lives | Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Join us for a talk on writing about the lives of musicians and composers.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week! We look forward to celebrating John's new book with you – see you Thursday!

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PHANZA Professional Historians of New Zealand / Aotearoa @phanza.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Aotearoa History and Heritage Alliance, including PHANZA, has released an open letter on the deeply damaging and far-reaching impacts of proposed cuts at Archives NZ and the National Library. Read the letter at the link below and please share widely. phanza.org.nz/wp-content/u...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This week Writers on Mondays changes day and venue: The Next Page 1 and 2 are on Tuesday and Wednesday 6–7.30pm at MEOW, with a preview of the next generation over two lively nights of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from the IIML's MA (Page) workshops. Readers listed at the link below!

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Writers on Mondays | Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao / International Institute of Modern Letters | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

A series of events highlighting the very latest work from Aotearoa New Zealand writers. A lively and stimulating way to begin the week—and it’s free!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In 24 stages, a frog morphs into the god Apollo — an etching commissioned by the physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater from Christian von Mechel in 1795. More on the image and its history here: buff.ly/3qd3aDZ

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

. WINGATUI Sit in the car with the headlights off. Look out there now where the yellow moon floats silks across the birdcage. You might have touched that sky you lost. You might have split that azure violin in two. .

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's so exciting to have Green Sea out on shop shelves across the country this week, after an early release in Christchurch for WORD. Congratulations, John, on another stunning book 💚 teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/gre...

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Huge whakamihi to our colleague Tina Makereti, who was announced as the 2O26 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow last night. “I am equal parts stunned, grateful, scared and hopeful about what this trip will bring and the writing it will generate,” Tina says.

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It may be that when we no longer know what to do  we have come to our real work,  and that when we no longer know which way to go  we have come to our real journey.  The mind that is not baffled is not employed.  The impeded stream is the one that sings.

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

. Hardyesque What’s that at the window, hitting against the windowpane? The weather, Maureen, I hate it. Weather and war. Those twain. Then what? Then more and more of the same. And later on, more rain, Maureen. More rain. .

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In next week's special edition of Writers on Mondays, Abby Letteri and Marty Smith talk horses from two different perspectives, the wild and the race course, and bring fresh insights into the relationship between horse and human. 1215, Level 4, Te Papa www.tepapa.govt.nz/visit/events...

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Writers on Mondays: Year of the Horse – Abby Letteri and Marty Smith | Te Papa

Two writers take the horse as the subject of their memoirs, with very different approaches. They discuss writing, and life with, or alongside, horses.

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

. A Really Nice Trip We went up Pleasant Valley. After which we came back down to Pleasant Flat. Then we went all the way out to Pleasant Point. It was a really nice trip. .

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poemtoday.bsky.social @poemtoday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jamesian Their relationship consisted In discussing if it existed. Thom Gunn

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today in Writers on Mondays, pip adam, Terri Te Tau, and Tim Corballis discuss their exciting and inventive new novels, writing the weird present, and possible futures.

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Writers on Mondays: Uncanny Valley – pip adam, Terri Te Tau, and Tim Corbalis | Te Papa

Three brilliant novelists discuss their exciting and inventive new novels, writing the weird present, and possible futures.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dr Brown makes a medical breakthrough. My #cartoon today #NZpol #HealthSystem #HealthCare

Cartoon. Title: “Medical Breakthrough” A caption says, “In an audacious innovation Dr Brown transfused $95million from hospitals to GPs” Image shows Health Minister Simeon Brown putting a line into the arm of a skeletal Health System to remove blood and transfer it over to the other arm, overseen by PM Christopher Luxon. Luxon is saying, “Your audacity knows no bounds, Dr Brown!”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/08/2026

I am currently recruiting for a 2-year postdoc/research fellow role at the University of Auckland here in New Zealand, focusing on auditory perception, hearing, and music in older adults, including people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias ~NZ$100k/yr, flexible start date, please apply!

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Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest

Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit. We are currently recruiting candidates for a 2-year position focusing on auditory perception in aging populations,...

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

. Missing The names for clouds. For the Auckland cousins. All the bits of a church. .

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some weak men, some very weak men. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Pamela Gordon @pamelagordon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Birthday Gift from Janet Frame's estate to the Janet Frame House trust: On the anniversary of Janet Frame's birth in 1924, the charitable trust founded by the author has awarded $10,000 towards the completion of a new visitor centre at the Janet Frame House in Ōamaru.

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

More of the sentences I'm sharing every day on Substack.

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