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
- please stop replying to the bush tweet https://t.co/A7xDFlYuqQ 4 days ago
- Sometimes NZ writers say 'the forest' instead of 'the bush' (and they definitely mean 'the bush') because they are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
- I’ve recently learned that in another part of the neighbourhood Jerry is known as Original Chonk (The Chonky King).… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
- RT @MerriamWebster: The nonbinary pronoun 'they' has been added to the dictionary. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they 5 days ago
- Very nearly ended a poetry book blurb with the words '... and show us what it is to be human' and caught myself just in time 6 days ago
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Category Archives: Memory
Everything will be alright, there’s really nothing to worry about too much
It’s always uncomfortable when people talk about their favourite bands and you don’t like their bands, or can’t be bothered to listen to yet another thing that people say you should listen to. So maybe this post isn’t for you. Maybe it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Uncategorized
Tagged Beth's song, Buzz Moller, Hello Are You There?, Now I Am Me, Voom
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Horse of the sky
Last weekend I went up in my dad’s Cherokee (him flying, not me). My dad has a hangar at the little aeroclub just outside Blenheim, where he keeps his plane, which is named SNE. He’s a hobbyist, not a commercial … Continue reading
Bob
I’ve been thinking about my old next-door neighbour Bob, who is long dead now. (There was another Bob, who worked at the corner shop, but I’ll get to him in another post.) There are a lot of gaps in what … Continue reading
Visitation
If you swivel the map below around so that you can see the bright red, yellow, and green house, you’ll see a long driveway with a lone figure standing on it, holding a recycling bin, I think. (Weirdly, when I … Continue reading
The unseen ass
To this day, I’ve haven’t thought of a decent comeback. I will never have one. I don’t believe anyone really has one. It’s because there is nothing to say. There’s just nowhere intelligent to go, maybe because I don’t disagree … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Memory, Recklessness
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Don’t you know who I am in my head?
Two or three years ago I taught a course in prose and discovered my students were watching the soap operas every morning and afternoon. I don’t know when they studied. So I watched two or three just to see what … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Poetry, Social media, Working
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