Paula Green
@paulajoygreen.bsky.social
poet, blogger, children's author
An incredible evening - Poetry Shelf celebrates with a collage of poetry treats nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates a Laureate evening
Poetry Shelf celebrates our Poetry Treasures Laureates: Chris Tse, Elizabeth Smither, Karl Stead, Michele Leggott, Cilla McQueen, Jenny Bornholdt, Bill Manhire, David Eggleton. Image: Miro King An …
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December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
An incredible evening - Poetry Shelf celebrates with a collage of poetry treats nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/04/p...
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A Call for Safe Air and Masking in Healthcare Settings
We, the undersigned clinicians, scientists, and health professionals, call for the urgent reinstatement of basic airborne-infection-control measures—clean indoor air and appropriate airborne respirato...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/a-...
This is laugh out loud!!! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Murray Edmond
INTERVIEW WITH A POEM: ‘Night Shift 1’ (1970) Night-Shift 1 I get up at 4.00pm& buy a cheese3 tomatoes, an orange, & a tin of fruit juiceas usual;also a paper.I return to the kitchen& p…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is laugh out loud!!! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/03/p...
This is why I do Poetry Box, why I work with & for children. Today I'm overflowing with poetry JOY. Thank you! I'm posting book reviews over summer and back with new blog ideas 2026 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/p...
Poetry Box November challenge: some favourite poems
Urgent: A boy sent me an incredible poem about his mum on about Nov 5th, 6th or 7th and it has gone missing in my email box. If it was you, can you resend please as I want to post it. WOW! this has…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is why I do Poetry Box, why I work with & for children. Today I'm overflowing with poetry JOY. Thank you! I'm posting book reviews over summer and back with new blog ideas 2026 nzpoetrybox.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/p...
Caught this again yesterday! So good! Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds
If it were Bic Runga's goal, as she once suggested, to make music that would "alter the listener's mind in some way" she achieved it with this record more than any other. Birds is an album with a dist...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Caught this again yesterday! So good! Nick Bollinger's Essential NZ Albums: Bic Runga - Birds www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
heck yes nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/01/p...
Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘doe-eyed’ by Zia Ravenscroft
doe-eyed we’re all just kids riding bikes throughquiet neighbourhoods where all the housesare identical and the colour of sand.we’re all just the distant sounds of laughter,sometimes crying.we’re a…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
heck yes nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/01/p...
If anyone goes to the National Library Poet Laureate event tonight and want to send me a few sentences for a post-function feature please do! Would so love to be there but am soaking the Waitākere bush bliss - people would pay to see our extraordinary native birds sing and dance!
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If anyone goes to the National Library Poet Laureate event tonight and want to send me a few sentences for a post-function feature please do! Would so love to be there but am soaking the Waitākere bush bliss - people would pay to see our extraordinary native birds sing and dance!
A special event tonight, and a special new Poet Laureate nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/27/p...
Poetry Shelf celebrates Aotearoa’s new Poet Laureate: Robert Sullivan
This evening, on 27 November, the National Library is celebrating 60 years of the Library with a ‘Laureates line up’ — a rare gathering of nearly all living New Zealand Poets Laureate. …
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November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A special event tonight, and a special new Poet Laureate nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/27/p...
really feeling the poetry love this week! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/26/p...
Poetry Shelf Playing Favourites: Richard von Sturmer
My recent book, Slender Volumes, is made of 300 seven-line poems. Really they are 300 stories, told in different modes: the realistic, the autobiographical, the historical and the surreal. One, pop…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
really feeling the poetry love this week! nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/26/p...
love this poem starting the week
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Poetry Shelf Monday Poem: ‘volume turned down to 7’ by Kay McKenzie Cooke
volume turned down to 7 Slowly it dawns, the need to listento the faint grief of a mourning cello, the sky’s blue jugpouring out a second helping of custard sun,this music that vies with a lost bee…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
love this poem starting the week
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These cafe readings are moving me so much - thank you nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/21/p...
Poetry Shelf Cafe Readings: Harry Ricketts
Harry reads from Bonfires on the Ice, along with earlier poems. Harry Ricketts taught for many years in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. He has published …
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November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
These cafe readings are moving me so much - thank you nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/11/21/p...
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...