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

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

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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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.

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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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.

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.

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

Changing the narrative on suicide - that's the theme of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept 10 and I'm on a panel discussing this. It's a free event in Dunedin with amazing speakers including Matthew Kiore and writer Jesse Bering. #teaorerekura #suicideprevention #jessebering

This Dunedin event for NZ National Poetry Day on Aug 23 - Friday! - is going to be amazing. I'm reading a poem written in collaboration with Brenda Finlayson.
Come for the line breaks, stay for the sheer enjambment.
Stanza room only!
(that's enough puns).
#poetry

Launching in May: I've an essay in this anthology, Otherhood, which asks: Am I mother, or other? Contributors include Golriz Ghahraman, Shaneel Lal, Hinemoa Baker and Paula Morris. Published by MUP. Editors include the fab @kathrynvanbeek.bsky.social

I chat to young UK poet and fellow UEA alumna Olivia Tuck in this podcast at @poetrynon-stop run by Patrick Widdess in Norwich. Cue: poetry, laughs, tears. poetrynonstop.com/2024/02/16/e...

Very moved to learn today that young people include my book, Loss Adjustment (right), as Singapore Literature.I lived there 27 years on a work pass but as I was not a citizen or PR I was ineligible for arts funding, panels, etc. So difficult to raise awareness about the book & suicide prevention.

A Singapore colleague came across this much-thumbed copy of my book, Loss Adjustment, in the upgraded Central Library. It even has Post-it notes! Grateful the book is still reaching those who need to read it. Photo credit: Suling Lin;
#LossAdjustment #memoir #suicideprevention #EthosBooks