Amy Marguerite

this is so cool.

About 5500 Waikato Health New Zealand staff not paid overnight due to glitch One of about 5500 Waikato Health New Zealand employees whose pay was missed told RNZ she has been dipping into her son's account while she has just $2 in hers.

"Workers turned up and did their jobs, caring for patients, keeping hospitals running, and they deserved to be paid on time," PSA national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said. "A payroll failure of this scale is not a minor inconvenience, it causes real hardship." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Sometimes a prompt is useful if only because it gives you an instruction you can disobey, but disobey specifically

!!! ❤️

Come and dance to Helen's poetry!

Some books on Te Tiriti o Waitangi — VOLUME The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi: An iIlustrated history by Claudia Orange $50 Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understandi...

Toitū te tiriti! A list of books on te tiriti from Volume books:
volume.nz/volumebooks/...

"I want Poetry Shelf to offer both balm and protest banners in these calamitous times." ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

saturday is for reading and reminiscing! do come along to bad apple's last harvest, it will be so lovely and special. "All are welcome along for this one-night-only, party/funeral for the juiciest queer art and lit journal." tickets here (choose what you pay!) basementtheatre.co.nz/blogs/whats-...

Huge congratulations to Anna Jackson, whose book "Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts" has been long-listed for the Okhams! www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-...

yes, same. i love this so very much.

January 29, 2026 Weekend Rental Chloe Bryan It's not my yard and not my leafblower, either, not my frack account or my circus or my glistening non-sordid life. The unstapled world is not for the taking, and I'll let you down bloody, poets: There is no such thing as endless distances. God can't even see which tattoos we bought, and yet each new feeling blusters in like a dog wet from the lake — absolutely free.

"...and I'll let you down bloody, poets:
There is no such thing as endless
distances. God can't even see which tattoos
we bought..."

!!! from Chloe Bryan

https://www.havehashad.com/e924v

University of Waikato in Hamilton, NZ, are hiring in English and Writing Studies - pass it on! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

just sitting here in my house thinking about how much i love my job and team and what the heck

"in times of crisis we must decide over and over again whom we love" (says Frank O'Hara)

A poem titled "The day a poet is murdered by ICE"

for Renee Nicole Good, a poet and a mother

poets.org/2020-on-lear...

a page where the poem will display properly and also not have scum commenting at the bottom

Last call for 2026 tutoring applications! Please apply by Sunday 11 January if you want to be considered www.wgtn.ac.nz/sam/about/tu...

On work, intensity, and chronic pain Opening up and being opened up to

some thoughts and happenings

I don't want children. I don't want children. I don't want children. I don't want children. My most unhinged essay yet.

This describes my exact feelings. Jameela Jamil is a treasure.

regular somatic practice

Every book I read in 2025, with commentary My catchphrase for the year, the sentence I think I thought and said out loud most often: “I feel alienated from society.”

Nice to see Anna Jackson here

elisagabbert.medium.com/every-book-i...

i love this poem

CHRISTMAS here is a piece of me / it is my foot / or it is my spinal attachment / they put a tree in the living room / of course you'd want to climb it / only the problem is we are not small enough / and when we were small enough / we were not strong enough it wasn't even a question / I do not want this many parts / I wish I were only one thing / a kneecap maybe or a liver / if I had a real choice / I would be an analog phone / then when you were with me I would keep ringing / and when you kissed me I would hang up / one man knew how to sing like a dial tone / I think he was our king / unfortunately I noticed everything today / and the people won't let me return it

an annual tradition to post this @heatherchristle.bsky.social poem

i wrote this and went to work and immediately thought of at least ten other songs to add to the list! soon.

Let Aidhan stay - Don't target disabled kids for deportation We request that the Associate Minister of Immigration intervene to remove the directive for priority enforcement action and grant Aidhan NZ residency. We request that the House of Representatives a...

No child should be targeted for deportation just because they are disabled. actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...

car music i live about an hour from my workplace.

car music. it is nice to feel everything in front of nothing.

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Poetry Shelf 2025 highlights (or some summer reading and listening) 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 box a necklaceInside the n…

On Thursday I wrote my Poetry Shelf 2025 highlight post but it was the worst day in the worst week in the worst year & I barely skimmed the surface of special. The width and depth and delight of poetry in Aotearoa is incredible.

nzpoetryshelf.com/2025/12/18/p...

Such an important thread about the value of the Total Mobility scheme! We need to fight to get this properly funded - no cap on costs, easier to book, round trips made possible. This matters! Let's make it an election issue!

“are you
writing
a book
or are
you just

in your
house”

― Eileen Myles, a “Working Life”