Linda Collins
@lindacollins.bsky.social
Poetry, essays, memoir, fiction, reviews, journalism. Loss Adjustment, Sign Language for the Death of Reason. SL Bridport, Joy Harjo; runner-up Mslexia. MAs from UEA, IIML. NZ, UK, Asia, US publications. Introvert.
I'm presenting a paper on Saturday at the Singapore Literature Conference, 2pm Singapore time, via recording, on 'Unmaking the Lyric: Hamid Roslan and the new poetics of Singapore.' Thanks, Anna Reckin, who encouraged me at the University of East Anglia to write the initial essay. #poetry #singlit
July 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Honoured to be in this book on the supernatural by Dr Jesse Bering. Jesse interviewed me about incidents recounted in my memoir, Loss Adjustment. #lifeafterdeath
July 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Honoured to be in this book on the supernatural by Dr Jesse Bering. Jesse interviewed me about incidents recounted in my memoir, Loss Adjustment. #lifeafterdeath
Excited to be on a panel discussing writing across geographies, Friday 13, 1pm NZ time live on Flash Frontier YouTube channel. #nffdnz
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Flash Frontier
Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Excited to be on a panel discussing writing across geographies, Friday 13, 1pm NZ time live on Flash Frontier YouTube channel. #nffdnz
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Thrilled to be in this: www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...
Stories from the heartwood
A new collection of short writing doubles down on language, Tom McKinlay writes. A well known whakataukī (proverb) could very well stand as the...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Thrilled to be in this: www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...
Sometimes you wonder, what's your writing all for? Then a stranger messages:
'I read "Home, a point of departure" in Undertow. I'm a foreigner in Singapore and "We were always just renters, existing on the periphery" resonated. Condolences for your daughter'.
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'I read "Home, a point of departure" in Undertow. I'm a foreigner in Singapore and "We were always just renters, existing on the periphery" resonated. Condolences for your daughter'.
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June 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Sometimes you wonder, what's your writing all for? Then a stranger messages:
'I read "Home, a point of departure" in Undertow. I'm a foreigner in Singapore and "We were always just renters, existing on the periphery" resonated. Condolences for your daughter'.
(www.faction.press/product-page...)
'I read "Home, a point of departure" in Undertow. I'm a foreigner in Singapore and "We were always just renters, existing on the periphery" resonated. Condolences for your daughter'.
(www.faction.press/product-page...)
Grateful to
see my book, Loss Adjustment, in this line-up
of research by the wonderful writer @miafarlane.bsky.social #suicideprevention
see my book, Loss Adjustment, in this line-up
of research by the wonderful writer @miafarlane.bsky.social #suicideprevention
Found such a variety of books #starttheconversation #changethenarrative while writing my lit-fic UK-NZ novel.
@leemurraywriter.bsky.social @jpseabright.bsky.social @lindacollins.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @matthaig.bsky.social Read more & listen to my short story miafarlane.com/news/change-...
@leemurraywriter.bsky.social @jpseabright.bsky.social @lindacollins.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @matthaig.bsky.social Read more & listen to my short story miafarlane.com/news/change-...
May 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Grateful to
see my book, Loss Adjustment, in this line-up
of research by the wonderful writer @miafarlane.bsky.social #suicideprevention
see my book, Loss Adjustment, in this line-up
of research by the wonderful writer @miafarlane.bsky.social #suicideprevention
www.thepress.co.nz/wellbeing/36...
NZ media did this on suicide awareness, including an extensive interview with me (lower down). The Sunday Star-Times journalist was respectful to my late daughter Victoria, and worked in references to my book, Loss Adjustment. #LossAdjustment #suicideprevention
NZ media did this on suicide awareness, including an extensive interview with me (lower down). The Sunday Star-Times journalist was respectful to my late daughter Victoria, and worked in references to my book, Loss Adjustment. #LossAdjustment #suicideprevention
‘A culture of silence’: How speaking up on suicide might save lives
As those bereaved by suicide struggle to tell their stories, experts say that reporting laws are also keeping the issue in the shadows.
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April 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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NZ media did this on suicide awareness, including an extensive interview with me (lower down). The Sunday Star-Times journalist was respectful to my late daughter Victoria, and worked in references to my book, Loss Adjustment. #LossAdjustment #suicideprevention
NZ media did this on suicide awareness, including an extensive interview with me (lower down). The Sunday Star-Times journalist was respectful to my late daughter Victoria, and worked in references to my book, Loss Adjustment. #LossAdjustment #suicideprevention
The wonderful Faction Press Singapore is launching this essay ezine soon. I'm in it, humbled to be beside the brilliant Filipino poet, essayist and scholar Lawrence Ypil.
April 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The wonderful Faction Press Singapore is launching this essay ezine soon. I'm in it, humbled to be beside the brilliant Filipino poet, essayist and scholar Lawrence Ypil.
Congratulations to fellow UEA Poetry classmates Imogen Hughes @poetr-imi.bsky.social and Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social, second and third in the Disabled Poetry Prize, writing on illness and Autism. @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social
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March 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Congratulations to fellow UEA Poetry classmates Imogen Hughes @poetr-imi.bsky.social and Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social, second and third in the Disabled Poetry Prize, writing on illness and Autism. @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social
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www.spreadtheword.org.uk/winners-of-t...
Gutted that Meta pirated my book, Loss Adjustment, to train AI, according to The Atlantic journal, which provides a search box. My book is about my late daughter and her suicide, for god's sake. Is there no respect?
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March 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Gutted that Meta pirated my book, Loss Adjustment, to train AI, according to The Atlantic journal, which provides a search box. My book is about my late daughter and her suicide, for god's sake. Is there no respect?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Thrilled that friend Stuart Henrys (pictured with wife Estelle) has been awarded the 2025 Science NZ Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at Parliament. Stuart, a geophysicist, leads groundbreaking research on the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand's largest fault line.
March 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Thrilled that friend Stuart Henrys (pictured with wife Estelle) has been awarded the 2025 Science NZ Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at Parliament. Stuart, a geophysicist, leads groundbreaking research on the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand's largest fault line.
New Zealand poet Brian Turner has died. A giant, a huge loss. At a writers festival, he saw I was lost and invited me to his table. He understood grief, and endorsed my book, Loss Adjustment. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/06/b...
Brian Turner dies
Farewell to a major New Zealand author.
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February 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New Zealand poet Brian Turner has died. A giant, a huge loss. At a writers festival, he saw I was lost and invited me to his table. He understood grief, and endorsed my book, Loss Adjustment. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/06/b...
Congrats to former UEA MA classmates,OliviaTuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social and Imogen McHugh, for being shortlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize. Lovely poets, and people. x.com/disabledpoet...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Congrats to former UEA MA classmates,OliviaTuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social and Imogen McHugh, for being shortlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize. Lovely poets, and people. x.com/disabledpoet...
Kind of depressed Gboyega didn't win the TS Eliot.
January 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Kind of depressed Gboyega didn't win the TS Eliot.
Thrilled to have my poem, 'baby tooth', in the Winter edition of the UK's Lighthouse Literary Journal. An honour to be amongst such wonderful poets.
December 28, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Thrilled to have my poem, 'baby tooth', in the Winter edition of the UK's Lighthouse Literary Journal. An honour to be amongst such wonderful poets.
Carrie is a terrific teacher of the prose poem. This looks great.
Good morning! I've begun a starter pack for prose poets. go.bsky.app/EdpM3cb Please share.
December 27, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Carrie is a terrific teacher of the prose poem. This looks great.
December 11, 2024 at 12:29 AM
December 9, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Victorian Heritage Week in Oamaru, NZ, and I am channeling ‘slatternly housekeeper’. Conflicted about donning the garb of the Coloniser Oppressor, but interesting to feel its own constriction.
Other pix include my pilates teacher in orange frills doing the can-can.Pix: Malcolm McLeod
Other pix include my pilates teacher in orange frills doing the can-can.Pix: Malcolm McLeod
November 17, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Victorian Heritage Week in Oamaru, NZ, and I am channeling ‘slatternly housekeeper’. Conflicted about donning the garb of the Coloniser Oppressor, but interesting to feel its own constriction.
Other pix include my pilates teacher in orange frills doing the can-can.Pix: Malcolm McLeod
Other pix include my pilates teacher in orange frills doing the can-can.Pix: Malcolm McLeod
I'm the 'Poet in the Wild' at the British Association for Romantic Studies. Thanks @adamneikirk.bsky.social for your write-up. Poems from an unpublished chapbook, publisher in hiatus. @poetrysociety.bsky.social @modernletters.bsky.social
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Romantic Poets in the Wild #7: Linda Collins – BARS Blog
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November 15, 2024 at 6:29 PM
I'm the 'Poet in the Wild' at the British Association for Romantic Studies. Thanks @adamneikirk.bsky.social for your write-up. Poems from an unpublished chapbook, publisher in hiatus. @poetrysociety.bsky.social @modernletters.bsky.social
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5662
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5662
Wrote a review of Meantime, By Majella Cullinane, for the NZ Poetry Society.
I've tried to make this review a conversation among poets while honouring different ways of being.
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I've tried to make this review a conversation among poets while honouring different ways of being.
www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/u...
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November 8, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Wrote a review of Meantime, By Majella Cullinane, for the NZ Poetry Society.
I've tried to make this review a conversation among poets while honouring different ways of being.
www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/u...
I've tried to make this review a conversation among poets while honouring different ways of being.
www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/u...
I have an essay just out in the peer-reviewed'Poetry as Therapy' journal in the US. It's on Denise Riley's trauma poetics and is based on my Diss at UEA. #PoetryasTherapy #UEA
Describing the indescribable: how Denise Riley’s “A Part Song” enables readers to encounter her trauma
The poetry of trauma can be especially difficult to read if it is written by a mother who has lost a child. Society has expectations of the grieving mother that involve stoicism and silence. Reader...
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October 21, 2024 at 4:03 AM
I have an essay just out in the peer-reviewed'Poetry as Therapy' journal in the US. It's on Denise Riley's trauma poetics and is based on my Diss at UEA. #PoetryasTherapy #UEA
Huge congratulations to Dunedin poet Megan Kitching who has just been longlisted for the UK's Laurel Prize in ecowriting for her debut collection, At the Point of Seeing. Read my review here: www.nzreviewofbooks.com/at-the-point...
At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching - Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books
The end of the world: a debut collection on 'the fragility of the earth under our feet '.
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September 24, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Huge congratulations to Dunedin poet Megan Kitching who has just been longlisted for the UK's Laurel Prize in ecowriting for her debut collection, At the Point of Seeing. Read my review here: www.nzreviewofbooks.com/at-the-point...
Thanks @paulajoygreen.bsky.social for putting up a piece on Poetry Shelf about the Dunedin reading for World Suicide Prevention Day. #poetry #nzsa nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/09/17/p...
Poetry Shelf feature: Poetry for World Suicide Prevention Day
Unlatched The little green gate where I entered and left childhood is unlatched. Linda Collins from Sign Language for the Death of Meaning Last week, World Suicide Preve...
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September 17, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Thanks @paulajoygreen.bsky.social for putting up a piece on Poetry Shelf about the Dunedin reading for World Suicide Prevention Day. #poetry #nzsa nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/09/17/p...
Reposted by Linda Collins
Digesting the news that between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, with only ~1280 breeding individuals between the early and middle Pleistocene. A tiny amount for the continuity of the species, yes — but a very respectable readership for any poets among them.
September 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Digesting the news that between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, with only ~1280 breeding individuals between the early and middle Pleistocene. A tiny amount for the continuity of the species, yes — but a very respectable readership for any poets among them.