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growing aubergine for the first time

Inside the city a houseInside the house a roomInside the room a cupboardInside the cupboard a drawerInside the drawer a boxInside the ...


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STANDING on my SHADOW by Serie BarfordAnahera Press, 2025

Serie Barford and I have been travelling cancer roads for a number of years, so to b...


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Long White Cloud

If my home pasture’s so much greener why leap all this barbed wire to graze in yours? The aeroplane over the moon unsure whether its metals ever yearned

to mimic a bird or burning cross. I should not want to be a corn-fed house-cow kept for butter any more than I would like my children to become Americans. Everywh...


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Poet and novelist Sue Wootton’s most recent poetry collection is The Yield (Otago University Press, 2017), which was a finalist in the 2018 Ockham New Zealand book...


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Jillian at the Bluff signpost

Jillian Sullivan has just started walking the South Island section of the Te Araroa trail. I invited her to send poems whenever she felt inspired to do so, internet acc...


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