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BIRDBOY PRESS is getting wings finally. A little project I've been working on. More news very soon...
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you are all having a splendid break!!! To add to the jolly vibes, I’m very excited to announce the publication of my third full poetry book, Rust Belt, published by my own BIRDBOY PRESS (more information about th
Check this out everybody! I have been hard at work behind the scenes making This Twilight Menagerie available on practically every major ebook platform known to mankind! (Except Apple iBooks. I tried my hardest but failed lol) Visit the @poetry
This Twilight Menagerie launches on the 25th of July at 4pm! Northern Line, Beresford Square! There'll be readings, speeches and music! Excited to launch this book into the world!
This Twilight Menagerie, co-edited by @samclements3 and myself, has arrived in beautiful book form! Very excited to share with everyone what the whole MC team has done for @poetrylivenz! Launch details to come! If you fancy yourself a copy, check o
Alongside the @poetrylivenz team,@samclements3 and I have been really, really busy lately co-editing This Twilight Menagerie - A Whakanui of 40 Years of Poetry Live! This has been a labour of love for the @poetrylivenz team, and a joy to compile. T
Last Sunday, I had a rad opportunity to take part in the @aklwritersfest I got to read my commissioned poem with 6 other poets on Dante's Purgatory from @thecubapress More Favourable Waters anthology! Had such a blast hanging out with these cool fol
More Favourable Waters is a rich anthology of 33 contemporary Aotearoa poets responding to different sections of Dante's Purgatory! I had the thrill of being asked to join the gang too! A little treat at the back of the book is a barcode that will
@aklwritersfest is always a great time! So excited to be part of this years line up! Come along to Purgatory Reimagined on Sunday the 16th of May! I'm going to be reading my original response to a chosen passage from Dante's Purgatorio! That respon
Early last month, I had the pleasure of attending and emceeing the wedding of my dear friends @r.e.pearson and @conorpearson6! Was such a lovely day, so much love, light and happiness! 🙂
Went and visited the kids at Pukekohe East Primary a couple of weeks back to talk to them about my accident and how I got into writing poetry, and they wrote me thank you letters! 😍 each one is the best! How wholesome! 🙆
Chuffed to have three of my poems in the first ever online issue of Tarot Poetry Journal alongside great kiwi poets! 🤓🙆🐰🔥🌀 http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/
Next week, I'm going to be MC'ing at @poetrylivenz! Sonia Wilson as guest musician and the @poetrylivenz MC's as the guest poets! Come along! It'll be a freaking hoot!
So stoked with my new tattoo, done by the brilliantly talented @bentattoo.sh at @townhallart! #braintattoo #hearttattoo #wildheart #woodland #fineline #tattoo #townhalltattoo #wanderlust #matchingtattoo @shannahsays #samebrain
Two years ago, I was so excited to be chosen for the Best New Zealand Poems 2017 by the then-poet laureate @selinatusitalamarsh. A punch-the-air moment, for sure. A few months ago I was contacted by Wai-te-ata Press down at Victoria University with
Next week at @poetrylivenz at @thethirstydognz, I'm MC'ing and welcoming to the stage two brilliant guests! Caitlin Smith (@bravecaitlin) and Tate Fountain (@tatefountain)! They're both brilliant! Hope to see you there!, #poetry #poetrylive #openm
Tomorrow night, join me on the @poetrylivenz Instagram page and Poetry Live Facebook page as I live stream into your living spaces! This week I've got the brilliant @freyadalysad as Guest Poet! 🦕 Freya Daly Sadgrove is a writer and performer from
Next week at @poetrylivenz, I'm MCing and we've got @anne_e_kennedy and @lanejordantwigden and Liz performing! 😊 so excited! Come along @thethirstydognz! 8:00pm, Tuesday! 🤩
Both of the chats I had for @bookboundfest are now up on @spotify! Go give them a listen! The first, released a few weeks ago, is a talk I chaired with great UK-based writers, Man Booker nominated Max Porter and poet superstar Will Harris! The seco
The 14th of February. Valentine's Day. Also my sobriety anniversary. I had been thinking on doing something meaningful to celebrate it. I had been advised by a dear friend to celebrate the day doing something meaningful. Go bungee jumping, they sugge