Blogroll
- A book you might like This is a book you or someone you know might like.
- Bat, Bean, Beam Everyone links to Giovanni Tiso’s blog but I don’t care. It’s too good.
- Elliot Scribblings Londoner Elliot Elam sketches people on public transport.
- Five Dials Five Dials is free online magazine edited by Craig Taylor, who seems to be a genius. In Five Dials no. 32 you can read a piece I wrote about Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace.
- Isinglass Martin Edmond’s wonderful blog.
- Let Me Be Frank Sarah Laing’s compulsively readable cartoony blog on reading, writing, parenting, angsting.
- Oliver Burkeman My favourite writer on self-help. He really hates “The Secret”.
- The Animalarium This blog gladdens the heart. Celebrates animals (worldly and otherworldly) in illustration and design.
- The London Review of Breakfasts Dinner parties are mere formalities; but you invite a man to breakfast because you want to see him. (On the LRB, I have reviewed as Egg Miliband.)
- The Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- The VUP blog I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I ran a project where you could listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
- RT @i_zzzzzz: Whenever I read a paragraph like this I think about how I never want the New Yorker to write a profile on me https://t.co/ahm… 3 hours ago
- A thing I wish I could shake is, when I am cleaning I imagine that I'm on one of those hidden cam shows that were b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
- I wrote about writing a book (paywalled, but non-subscribers can still enjoy this photo of Andre Agassi) nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/a… 3 days ago
- Whenever I have to get down or put away a copy of Bill Manhire’s Collected Poems from the top shelf at work I alway… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
- RT @TheSpinoffTV: The Friday Poem: 'Alien' by @runawayfardowsa thespinoff.co.nz/books/07-06-20… 1 week ago
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DREAM
I was reading the weekend newspaper when I came across a story about a prolific writer who had started a petition. Tens of thousands of people had already signed even though the petition had only started the day before. The … Continue reading
Special time
It’s that special time of the year when people are asking themselves what to do about the social media accounts they’ve deactivated for the holidays. ‘Should I go back,’ they’re asking, ‘and if so when? Should it be soon or … Continue reading
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THE RADIO
I’m at my parents’ house for a few days. The radio is almost always on. It’s talkback radio. I think it’s Newstalk ZB. New Zealand’s #1 Talk Station. During the day, the talkback radio is overlaid with the tennis commentary … Continue reading
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Just clearing the energy here
This morning I hurt my hand from punching a wall. My upstairs neighbours have been noisy – stomping and crashing – and I feel like I’m coming a bit unstuck. I could have punched a pillow, but no – it … Continue reading
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Fan Art
I just came across this terrible artwork of Thom Yorke that I did when I was 16 and it cheered me up no end.
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Discontinuation
tūī vaunting themselves through the tree their song drawing fear off me like steam making my heart dazzle like a windscreen being spattered with bugs * a memory of riding fast down the hill with purple light streaming into my … Continue reading
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Pressure valve
Would I have to carry the inflatable Spider-Man around with me at home, or only when in public? Both. You must carry it around at all times. —‘FAQ for Entering an Agreement to be Paid $5000 Per Month for Life … Continue reading
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