Tim Jones: Books in the Trees

Meliors Simms is a contemporary landscape artist, radical crafter, a science fiction poet and an old-school blogger. She makes icebergs, isl...

How To Order A Tingling Catch I had hoped to do a full past about A Tingling Catch , the newly-published anthology of New Zealand cricket ...

A couple of years ago, a poem from my first collection, Boat People , was selected for inclusion in Wildes Licht , an anthology of New Zeala...

Frankie McMillan is an award winning short story writer and poet. She held the CNZ Todd Bursary in 2005 and this year was the winner of the ...

Letters from the Asylum, by John Knight, published by Sudden Valley Press, distributed by Madras Cafe Books . RRP NZ$25 (incl postage). John...

In 2003, I came across a call for submissions for a new webzine, Astropoetica . Its mission statement was "Mapping The Stars Through Po...

UPDATE: As Jack Ross has pointed out (see the comments), Project Poetry is a much better title than Poetry Runway . I went to Palmerston N...

I was going to do a much longer and more complicated blog post tonight, but I'm too tired. So instead, this is just to say that I have a...

Iain Britton had his first collection of poems, Hauled Head First into a Leviathan , which was a Forward Poetry Prize nomination, published ...

Helen Lowe alerted me to the following competition and anthology, which seems like a suitable one to post about at Easter: Spiritual Writin...

Last night, I was a guest reader, together with Fiona Farrell and Victoria Broome, at the first weekly session of the Canterbury Poets' ...

Emma Barnes , in addition to being a fine poet herself, is the editor of the new literary journal Enamel . The first issue of Enamel has jus...

Poetry in Performance: Autumn Readings 2009 Open microphone and guest readers  Wednesdays 6.30pm $5 entry  Madras Café Bookshop, 165 Madra...

Two calls from submissions that may be of interest to New Zealand writers: 1) An Anthology of Writing about Canterbury Wily Publications inv...

In 2004, Mark Pirie and myself decided that it would be a good idea to put together an anthology of New Zealand science fiction poetry. We ...

Shortly after the publication of Swings and Roundabouts: Poems on Parenthood (which you can buy online from Fishpond or New Zealand Books ...

I set up this blog to write about and promote the three books I had published between September 2007 and June 2008 - All Blacks' Kitchen...

The New Zealand Poetry Society is launching its annual anthology, this year entitled Before the Sirocco and edited by Joanna Preston , in ...

Harvey Molloy is a Wellington teacher and poet whose first collection of poetry, Moonshot , has just been published - which made this a ver...

Boat People is my first poetry collection. It was published in 2002 by HeadworX , the year after my first short fiction collection, Extreme...