2018 NZPS Anthology sold out!
The anthology The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation that I edited for the New Zealand Poetry Society 2018 has sold out! I like to...
The poems I love to choose
I'm reading for takahē this week, around 340 poems. Last month I read around 1,300 poems for the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Society...
Third Prize Poets Meet Politics International Poetry Competition
I've done a lot of submitting new poems this year. 15 of those submissions (usually there are three or four poems in each submission)...
This is where the coolest South Island writers hang out ...
I belong to the South Island Writers’ Association (SIWA). I joined SIWA around 12 years ago, and was chair for three of those years,...
Interview with Anton Blank, editor of Ora Nui
I was lucky enough to interview Anton Blank, editor of Ora Nui, New Zealand's only Māori literary journal, for Flash Frontier's Pasifika...
Featured article in A Fine Line -- "On editing the NZPS poetry anthology"
I would like to thank Ivy Alvarez for publishing the following article in the Feb 2018 edition of a fine line: On editing the 2017 NZPS...
To my husband of 25 years
Once were elvers Isn't it strange a river close to the sea appears slow? Your cheek was smooth when we met but now I trace the pocks and...
The best poetry workshops out of town
Yesterday -- that's right, a sunny Sunday -- I spent six hours in a back room of a friendly country pub built out of salvaged earthquake...
On editing an anthology
my experience and reflections of editing a poetry anthology
