iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today we're releasing our latest report: A Window on Disability. Are you or someone you love disabled? Are you receiving the same quality of healthcare as non-disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand? The answer is no and these data - never seen before - prove it: www.hqsc.govt.nz/resources/re...

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Big news goes live tomorrow:

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IIML @modernletters.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

‘To read Bill Manhire’s poetry is to be lulled, with an ironic lack of effort, into a landscape that is loaded with sense and meaning for the poet’s narrator(s), but perceived as gently out-of-kilter by the charmed observer’ - unpacking Lyrical Ballads. yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Reas...

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A Lullaby

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

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Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Pleased to have a new short story, "Silence", out via ReadingRoom @newsroom.co.nz A musician confronts difficult questions years after the tragic death of his lover... 🎻👬 newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/25/s...

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Short story: Silence, by Anthony Lapwood

A short story inspired by Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Please don’t touch anyone on the trains, stand behind the yellow lines and stop being so foreign. Thank you.

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Are you in Japan listening to the music of the sweet maternal Tannoy exhorting you to take care every seven seconds?

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Todd Atticus @toddatticus.com · 29/12/2025

Opening in two weeks. Watch this space for news about a special closing event that I’ve been cooking up with some friends…

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Poetry Updates

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website. ✨ Smooth website experience 📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier 🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.

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Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Catherine Robertston reviews Carl Shuker's The Royal Free on RNZ Afternoons:. 'It's the best thing I've read in years... Can't recommend it more highly... It's a tremendous piece of writing.' 💙 www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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Books: Author Catherine Robertson with her latest picks

We're going to talk about books, specifically what our critic Catherine Robertson calls her "to be read pile of shame" books, also known as those books you've bought and haven't yet got around to…

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Wow ok unfollowing now. Loved his refusal of servitude in heaven, did not know he was responsible for the fall of man

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Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

My book got the sweetest medal! www.thesapling.co.nz/nzcya-2025-n...

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you were forced to bet on which university courses of study still will be relevant in 50 years, languages, literature, history, philosophy, and arts are all pretty good wagers. They have an excellent track record over the past thousand years or so.

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Yeah, I was asked to recommend good writing about sex, and yeah, I went there thespinoff.co.nz/books/03-07-...

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Landfall comes for THE ROYAL FREE. A long close read that almost gets it…. landfallreview.com/what-we-fear...

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What We Fear Is Being Reviewed Maliciously

John Gibb on The Royal Free by Carl Shuke

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A week and a half until the international premiere of my post-apocalyptic found footage instructional film on acid GUT INSTINCT in Oakland, CA at Shapeshifters Cinema, complete w/ a circuit-bending audio set by Kyle Bruckmann (@issimo-sempre.bsky.social) and Q&A by me. Limited seats, don't miss out!

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Gut Instinct - a Film by Doug Dillaman + Live Music Performance by Kyle Bruckmann | Shapeshifters Cinema

A post-apocalyptic found footage instructional film on acid, Gut Instinct blends plausible science fiction, outrageous science fact, black comedy and intense visual freakouts in service of a singular ...

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So excited to see the ever-perceptive @robrubsam.bsky.social writing in @theatlantic.com today on @pipadam.bsky.social's "extraordinary" Audition, out in North America this month www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

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A Novel That Reimagines the Meaning of Outer Space

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Ha that’s amazing Tina. The life.

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Sample (just a sample) of the Smiths collection with period pricing

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A present from my old friend to celebrate completion of the first draft of my new project. 39 for this and so much else over so long @ryskel.bsky.social

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ouch. "I groaned my way through The Emperor of Gladness. I writhed. I felt real despair every time I forced myself to open the covers. It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life." Tom Crewe shines his hatchet in the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure

This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Two of my favourite NZ books of recent vintage - this and AUDITION by @pipadam.bsky.social - have been published in the States this month. Both urgent, challenging and rewarding. Check them out, Ameri-friends.

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It’s publication day in the US for The Royal Free. I’m so proud of this book and grateful to be with Counterpoint Press who published geniuses like Ballard and Janet Frame in the US, and Evan Connell and David Markson. Thank you. I’m a lucky man.

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Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"That’s the great thing about writing: the problems that solve the last novel will not help this novel in the slightest." A knockout interview with the great @pipadam.bsky.social #pukapuka

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is the really scary language now. “Republican forces.”

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 14/06/2025

Sad news, the founder of one of the greatest longitudinal studies ever undertaken has passed away. Over 1300 research papers have been derived from this incredible body or work. www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

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Study founder dies

Founder of the Dunedin Study, Dr Philip (Phil) Silva, has died, aged 84. Dr Silva founded the study, which followed the lives of 1037 babies born...

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Coming up in the US in seven days from Counterpoint! THE ROYAL FREE all silky and dark.

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Freedom Florilla and National Guard in LA - both obvious outrages legally and morally, both occurring as if scripted by power

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Carl Shuker @rcshuker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How I used to think about writing fiction. Waking up every morning trying to figure out what happens next while giving the impression I knew everything all along. Determined to be brave and delighted at the end of every day. #amwriting

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Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

#TheCovidResponse comes to Nelson this Wednesday evening. Join Naomi Arnold and I to talk about what worked and what didn't, and to find out what needs to happen to prepare for the next pandemic.

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