Paula Green
@paulajoygreen.bsky.social
poet, blogger, children's author
love the way a poem holds a moment and then reverberates beyond nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/17/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: Visitors with Intent by Diane Brown
Visitors with Intent On the radio, Jesse’s in Dunedin, interviewing localsspinning our attractions, the usual tropes, wildlife,lack of traffic, the cold, how much they love it. ‘Safe for students,”…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
love the way a poem holds a moment and then reverberates beyond nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/17/p...
terrific virtual cafe reading for the weekend nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/14/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Readings: Aruna Joy Bhakta
Aruna reads a selection of her poetry Aruna Joy Bhakta (she/her) grew up in New Plymouth, and went on to study her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Classics Studies. She currently lives in…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
terrific virtual cafe reading for the weekend nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/14/p...
Listen to Greg read! This fast track opencast song! And weep. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/12/p...
Poetry Shelf Protests: Gregory O’Brien two poems, a brief note and an audio
Two poems for the preservation of Thomson Gorge, Central Otago I Dunstan Daybook The undescribed mothThe unrecorded native daisyThe unsung rowanberriesThe unheeded bidibidThe unimpeded …
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November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Listen to Greg read! This fast track opencast song! And weep. nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/12/p...
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…
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November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This poem! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/10/p...
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…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Poetry Shelf celebrates! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/07/p...
Tomorrow night at Time Out Bookshop! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
Poetry Shelf noticeboard: Harry Ricketts and Steve Braunias in conversation
It’s getting colder as the flamesrise from the bonfires, real and virtual.See how they flicker in the darkling air. What is happiness in a suddenly unfamiliar world? What happens to us once t…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Tomorrow night at Time Out Bookshop! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the 4 editors pick a fave each from Starling - read and love today, and reread and relove over the weekend ⭐️
nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/06/p...
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Reposted by Paula Green
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
The other book that inspired November's poem challenge on Poetry Box
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The other book that inspired November's poem challenge on Poetry Box
a cool poem challenge for young poets in Aotearoa nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...
Poetry Box November poem challenge: Inspirations
Margaret Mahy’s Pockets In Margaret’s pockets you’ll findrhyme and delight and trampoline rhythms tin can bands and remarkable cakesGeorge’s pet and dashing dogsbubble troub…
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November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
a cool poem challenge for young poets in Aotearoa nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/p...
Fabulous poems by young poets nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/p...
Poetry Box October Challenge: Favourite native tree poems
Rākau: The Ancient Forests of Aotearoa, Ned BarraudTe Papa Press, 2025website page I loved Rākau by Ned Barraud so much, I used it as a prompt for Poetry Box’s October Poem challenge. To read…
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November 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Fabulous poems by young poets nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/p...
Reposted by Paula Green
Anne Kennedy is a wonder.
This is why I love doing Poetry Shelf - Anne Kennedy's incredible reading took me to a cafe. Have a listen! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/31/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Reading: Anne Kennedy
Anne reads a selection of her poems Anne Kennedy’s most recent books are The Sea Walks into a Wall, The Ice Shelf and, as editor, Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealan…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Anne Kennedy is a wonder.
This incredible book has also inspired my November poem challenge on Poetry Box nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/p...
Poetry Box review: Emilie Walks Te Araroa by Emilie and Victoria Bruce
Emilie Walks Te Araroa, Emilie & Victoria Brucepotton & burton, 2025 Emilie, at the age of seven, spent six months walking Te Araroa Trail with her mum, Victoria. The 3000 kilometre trail s…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This incredible book has also inspired my November poem challenge on Poetry Box nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/p...
This is why I love doing Poetry Shelf - Anne Kennedy's incredible reading took me to a cafe. Have a listen! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/31/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Reading: Anne Kennedy
Anne reads a selection of her poems Anne Kennedy’s most recent books are The Sea Walks into a Wall, The Ice Shelf and, as editor, Remember Me: Poems to Learn by Heart from Aotearoa New Zealan…
nzpoetryshelf.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is why I love doing Poetry Shelf - Anne Kennedy's incredible reading took me to a cafe. Have a listen! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/10/31/p...
Love this book so much it has inspired my Nov poem challenge on poetry Box nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/p...
Poetry Box review: Mum’s Busy Work by Jacinda Ardern
Mum’s Busy Work, Jacinda Ardern, illustrations Ruby JonesPenguin, 2025 Every now and then a book lands in my lap and it feels like a perfect arrival. Children’s books are so often a sou…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Love this book so much it has inspired my Nov poem challenge on poetry Box nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/p...