355 Colombo Street Yes, across a number of different cities and towns you will indeed see my face (sorry) and be able to read The dollhouse. In stonkingly high letters! The posters actually started going up a week ago, but I managed to come down with a cough and general malaise which meant I spent …
Just one more day to the Ockhams …
1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards Ok. Just one more sleep and I’ll be winging my way to Auckland. One more sleep, a flight and a taxi ride, and I’ll be ensconced in my Auckland hotel. One more sleep, a flight, a taxi ride and an ensconcement, and I’ll be wandering the streets …
Six days to the Ockhams …
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 – …
A Dark Feathered Art 