1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards The stress dreams are getting quite specific – sitting in the audience in street clothes, suddenly realising that it’s the actual ceremony and I’m up next, and don’t even know what I’m reading. I start desperately scrabbling around in my bag, and for some reason I seem …
Two weeks to the Ockhams …
1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards Just under two weeks to go, and I just discovered that the three posts I had set to publish since the shortlisting have not published themselves … because I somehow managed to set them for 2023. Sigh! Oh well, this one will be a bit of a …
tumble like Simone Biles
I've tried typing this opening paragraph about forty times now, and keep having to delete it as too twee, or too glib, or too loopy, or too incoherent … so here it is, very simply: tumble has made the shortlist of the 2022 Mary & Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockhams. (Sorry – …
The Summer King /Whetu competition – results!
Thank you to those who took part in the competition – Wendy, Gail and Vicky. I loved the use you made of my lines! And it was great to see people engaging with the form – the only way a new form will ever gain traction is if people use it, so students, you can …
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More tumble news
A couple of lovely reviews have come out. (Well, one review and a couple of public mentions.) The latest OUP newsletter showcased the three of us OUP authors being longlisted – me for tumble, Siobhan Harvey for Ghosts, and Alexander McKinnon for Come Back to Mona Vale, (which sounds absolutely fascinating!) Yay us! And more …
