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Rebecca Hawkes: bitchy damsel, beefy eel, haggard sylph. NZ poet: author of Meat Lovers, king simp for poems at Sweet Mammalian. Words in Palette, Glass, Cordite, & suchlike
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Surprisingly nice day for a stream-wade
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Surprisingly nice day for a stream-wade
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I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?
But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
New form I've been playing with in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social
Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals
anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...
Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals
anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...
October 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
New form I've been playing with in the new issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social
Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals
anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...
Repetitions anchored in erasures, a sort of void ghazal... And this one a love letter to the little wood I went to all the time in Ann Arbor, all orbweaver webs & vernal pools & trillium ephemerals
anmly.org/ap41/rebecca...
There will be Books
Christchurch! Next Friday, 24 October at 6pm at Scorpio Books. Wellington’s least annoying poets will read while you eat cheese. Ashleigh Young! Rebecca Hawkes! Stacey freaking Teague! Erik Kennedy?! Oh and me-sir. IT’S WHAT THEY WOULDA WANTED. Part of the nationwide celebration of my new book. 🍷
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
There will be Books
Reading in Christchurch tomorrow to launch our Nick's new book!!!! He has been redirected via mighty Timaru!!!!!!The flights have been nightmarish but you can mosey right on in to Scorpio (it won't be windy any more, they put that on just for us)
We’ve come along way, though a hurricane. Please come to the reading/launchette at Scorpio Books on Friday (24 Oct), 6pm.
October 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reading in Christchurch tomorrow to launch our Nick's new book!!!! He has been redirected via mighty Timaru!!!!!!The flights have been nightmarish but you can mosey right on in to Scorpio (it won't be windy any more, they put that on just for us)
Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Lil contrapuntal out with Cordite poetry journal last month, featuring Lactarius mushrooms (this one is edible!) & the horrors of fanmade Pokémon fusions (Milfing is Miltank + Koffing, on which I had to make an explanatory slideshow when I read this for our MFA program's sponsor, see attached)
Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁
August 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Last thing I'll make in the States for a while! Oil painting on wood, finished as a Leo's birthday gift before I head home to Aotearoa 🦁
Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥
thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
July 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Michigan winters are for the lovers... and the Pokedex remains an excellent source of negs for your fellow 90s kids...... thanks Hera & @thespinoff.bsky.social for having me ❄️ 🐎 🔥
thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
Reminder we're reading poetry for the next issue of Sweet Mammalian! Subs are free, and we pay (from our own pockets, as an unfunded indie journal but big believers in our writers' work). We'd especially love to see more work from Aotearoa poets 💖
We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions
June 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reminder we're reading poetry for the next issue of Sweet Mammalian! Subs are free, and we pay (from our own pockets, as an unfunded indie journal but big believers in our writers' work). We'd especially love to see more work from Aotearoa poets 💖
Beasts of humidity
June 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Beasts of humidity
ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
ConConclave this conclave that why is nobody talking about the announcement of the jack-in-the-pulpit in the woods
We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions
April 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We're open for submissions at Sweet Mammalian! Full guidelines here: www.sweetmammalian.com/submissions
Abuzz to be Sixth Finch's spring issue! With an ode to having a couple beers in the Ann Arbor sun, and a summery mem'ry from the 4th of July in California last year 🎇 SF is one of my favourite journals to read and I couldn't be happier to share work here ❤️🔥
sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...
sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...
April 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Abuzz to be Sixth Finch's spring issue! With an ode to having a couple beers in the Ann Arbor sun, and a summery mem'ry from the 4th of July in California last year 🎇 SF is one of my favourite journals to read and I couldn't be happier to share work here ❤️🔥
sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...
sixthfinch.com/mainspring25...
Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️
April 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Nawlins bound from frigid Michigan! See you soon for the New Orleans Poetry Festival - I'll be roundtabling with some fave poets about the works of Tina Darragh and new printing of her Mutant Solidarities from Blue Bag Press ⚠️☢️⚠️
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Look at this grasshopper molt!! It is beautiful!
March 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Look at this grasshopper molt!! It is beautiful!
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learning about the fossorial lifestyle of the spotted salamander, very happy for them, not jealous at all
March 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
learning about the fossorial lifestyle of the spotted salamander, very happy for them, not jealous at all
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My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...
January 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My microchap—the photo I don’t write about—is here! Available from Tilted House
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...
www.tiltedhouse.org/shop/the-pho...
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God would still love you if you were a worm
![Worm theology is the idea in Christian culture that in light of God's holiness and power an appropriate emotion is a humble view of self.[citation needed] The name may be attributed to a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed (Pub 1707)[1] which says "Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I?" Furthermore, worm theology can be attributed to a recognition of the ugliness of sin, resulting in contrition.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreihajkmfntl2ougtyuj74jyre3uvhmb4krlcrkugjw6dnnuc6fcpxq@jpeg)
March 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
God would still love you if you were a worm
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Bro come by we’re gonna eat a ton of acorns and then take a nap in a hollow tree
March 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bro come by we’re gonna eat a ton of acorns and then take a nap in a hollow tree
Dad catching some serious strays in my one (1) maudlin divorce poem
sad but also beautiful new one today from Rebecca Hawkes
🐶🐶🐶
"The sea is chasing something in its sleep
and all the dogs we cannot see
awaken to start barking
their good news through the cabins."
https://www.havehashad.com/1xq2q
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"The sea is chasing something in its sleep
and all the dogs we cannot see
awaken to start barking
their good news through the cabins."
https://www.havehashad.com/1xq2q
Good Boy by Rebecca Hawkes
My mother keeps a cardboard cutout of a sheepdog in the lounge. Portrait of a huntaway: all lop-eared alertness, those classic orange eyebrows raised expectantly in his dark face. Spitting image of…
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March 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Dad catching some serious strays in my one (1) maudlin divorce poem
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On International Women’s day, we’re celebrating Dr Nellie Eales. Thanks to her, we have treasures like this 1420’s ‘Book of Hours’, and our Cole collection.
[MS 2087]
[MS 2087]
March 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
On International Women’s day, we’re celebrating Dr Nellie Eales. Thanks to her, we have treasures like this 1420’s ‘Book of Hours’, and our Cole collection.
[MS 2087]
[MS 2087]
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a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out 3/18 with @tinhouse.bsky.social) is in latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
March 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out 3/18 with @tinhouse.bsky.social) is in latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The sun is trying to come out in Oxford today, so to celebrate please enjoy this illustration from MS Bodl 614 (which you can explore on Digital Bodleian here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/a43b...).
It's a 12th Century treatise on astronomy with some beautiful illuminations. #MedievalMondays
It's a 12th Century treatise on astronomy with some beautiful illuminations. #MedievalMondays
February 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The sun is trying to come out in Oxford today, so to celebrate please enjoy this illustration from MS Bodl 614 (which you can explore on Digital Bodleian here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/a43b...).
It's a 12th Century treatise on astronomy with some beautiful illuminations. #MedievalMondays
It's a 12th Century treatise on astronomy with some beautiful illuminations. #MedievalMondays