Bill Manhire
@pacificraft.bsky.social
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Toitū Te Tiriti!
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Bill Manhire
@pacificraft.bsky.social
· Nov 28
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My Final Poem
Someone rides a bicycle through a cemetery,
then in and out of my poem.
Why would anyone do that?
I was expecting a dark horseman,
not a clown on a bicycle.
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Some more epistolary spleen
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Some more epistolary spleen
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Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
The award-winning podcast returns. Listen to the first two episodes today....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Out now: Juggernaut 2 – the story of the fourth National government
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Charles Wright
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Charles Wright
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Enquire now about joining us in 2026!
We're excited to be working with the Publishers Association of New Zealand / Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) to deliver our courses next year. 🎉
More information available at www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz
We're excited to be working with the Publishers Association of New Zealand / Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) to deliver our courses next year. 🎉
More information available at www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Enquire now about joining us in 2026!
We're excited to be working with the Publishers Association of New Zealand / Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) to deliver our courses next year. 🎉
More information available at www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz
We're excited to be working with the Publishers Association of New Zealand / Te Rau o Tākupu (PANZ) to deliver our courses next year. 🎉
More information available at www.whitireiapublishing.co.nz
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Beauty and truth, love her writing
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Beauty and truth, love her writing
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“I am singing sadly to the barn.” A poem by Matthew Zapruder.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“I am singing sadly to the barn.” A poem by Matthew Zapruder.
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This poem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Statues by David Eggleton
Statues The disappeared, the totalled, those who ain’t there;whether hollow, solid, reinforced, boltedor cemented to a pedestal,nothing is as invisible as a monument,until you turn the spotli…
nzpoetryshelf.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This poem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Glen Baxter
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Glen Baxter
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#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD
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I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
Green Changed to White
Ernest Dowson and the English prose poem
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
Applause at the end of the Pike River movie. Quite right, too.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Applause at the end of the Pike River movie. Quite right, too.
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My World War I Poem
Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.
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My World War I Poem
Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My World War I Poem
Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.
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My World War I Poem
Inside each trench, the sound of prayer.
Inside each prayer, the sound of digging.
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This epistolary novel could have been an email
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This epistolary novel could have been an email
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Quick alternate view on this story from someone who sat the exam (+ her friends): “literally no-one GAF … it was the most interesting because it had the most language features to discuss.”
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants
English exam asks students to write about long-haired boy being bullied, forced to drop pants
A student and teacher spoken to by RNZ said the text, which appeared in the NCEA level 2 exam, made them feel very uncomfortable.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Quick alternate view on this story from someone who sat the exam (+ her friends): “literally no-one GAF … it was the most interesting because it had the most language features to discuss.”
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
Maybe RNZ (and those quoted) just need to take a deep breath and chill out a bit?
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Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem
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On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:
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Poetry Shelf celebrates! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/07/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry 2025: Dinah Hawken
Poetry Shelf offers a bouquet of warm congratulations! To celebrate Dinah Hawken as the 2025 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, I am reposting a poem she picked from Small St…
nzpoetryshelf.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Poetry Shelf celebrates! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/07/p...
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‘I vote with the hand that holds
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
‘I vote with the hand that holds
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
this knife. I vote for the fish, the bird,
the ocean and a raised land shaped
by explosion, erosion and willful life.’
Dinah Hawken reads from her poem ‘The Uprising’ after receiving the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry last night.
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We've just added 2 DeWalt Combi Drill sets to our NEW loanable tool collection along with Drill and Bit sets which can be loaned with the drills or borrowed separately.
And we'll be adding more soon! 🔨🔧
Find more information below or on our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/tools/
And we'll be adding more soon! 🔨🔧
Find more information below or on our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/tools/
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We've just added 2 DeWalt Combi Drill sets to our NEW loanable tool collection along with Drill and Bit sets which can be loaned with the drills or borrowed separately.
And we'll be adding more soon! 🔨🔧
Find more information below or on our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/tools/
And we'll be adding more soon! 🔨🔧
Find more information below or on our website at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/tools/
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Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
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Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Somebody needs to draw a Venn diagram of (fig. a) universities who close their language departments and (fig. b) universities who have the word "global" or "international" in their mission statements, because these people won't understand a thing unless you put it in a powerpoint presentation
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The land is like a sea-bird but where
are its wings? The land is like a fish.
The fish of Māui, hauled up from the sea floor, writhing.
The ocean is a road, a table and a bed.
It takes our bodies up to air and floats them.
The ocean is an open question.
Dinah Hawken, 'The Uprising', 2014
are its wings? The land is like a fish.
The fish of Māui, hauled up from the sea floor, writhing.
The ocean is a road, a table and a bed.
It takes our bodies up to air and floats them.
The ocean is an open question.
Dinah Hawken, 'The Uprising', 2014
Dinah Hawken 2014 - ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS
1. Here we are a skinny country in the largest ocean on earth spell-bound, windswept, lashed. The land is like a canoe heading south to an icy continent or heading north to equatorial islands. No one ...
www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The land is like a sea-bird but where
are its wings? The land is like a fish.
The fish of Māui, hauled up from the sea floor, writhing.
The ocean is a road, a table and a bed.
It takes our bodies up to air and floats them.
The ocean is an open question.
Dinah Hawken, 'The Uprising', 2014
are its wings? The land is like a fish.
The fish of Māui, hauled up from the sea floor, writhing.
The ocean is a road, a table and a bed.
It takes our bodies up to air and floats them.
The ocean is an open question.
Dinah Hawken, 'The Uprising', 2014
Great to see poet Dinah Hawken here! Such a clear-sighted, brave and – when you least expect it – mischievous writer.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Great to see poet Dinah Hawken here! Such a clear-sighted, brave and – when you least expect it – mischievous writer.