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Poetry & Gender in New Zealand Publishing
One of the things I do to entertain myself is make spreadsheets. Some people may find this sad, but frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. Recently I conducted an unscientific little survey of...
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Scenery
We’ve just got back from a trip to Greymouth and Christchurch (booked well before the earthquake). We took the Tranz-scenic over the southern alps with a small group of friends and had a great time....
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Anomalous International Magma Etchings
I’m feeling very international at the moment. I have a short story in the new online journal Anomalous (based in the US), two poems in the New Zealand feature of the online International Literary...
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Poetry & Gender in New Zealand Publishing Part 2
Last year, I posted about a little survey I’d undertaken of publishers’ websites. I looked at the gender of poets published in 2009 by AUP, VUP, Steele Roberts, Seraph Press, Earl of Seacliffe...
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Interview with Mark Stephenson – No Second Chance
Mark Stephenson is a Wellington writer whose first novel No Second Chance has just been published by Steele Roberts. No Second Chance is the story of Anna, who arrives in Wellington in 1947 as a...
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Poetry & Gender in New Zealand Publishing 2008 – 2010
This is the third year I’ve looked at how many female New Zealand poets have had books published in New Zealand compared with the number of male poets. And for three years in a row, men have...
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Tuesday Poem – Paekakariki
Paekakariki In the garden of cats the deserted lover learns to purr again & threads the sun around her neck in a garland of golden oyster shells. Violets grow quietly dragonflies come to call she...
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Tuesday Poem – Train Window, by Lola Ridge
English: Postcard picture of Branchville Railroad Station, Connecticut, USA, ca. 1900 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) TRAIN WINDOW Small towns Crawling out of their green shirts… Tubercular towns Coughing a...
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Poetry & Gender in New Zealand Publishing – an occasional series
News in Brief: the boys are still winning; the girls haven’t yet caught up. Since 2008, I’ve been looking at the Journal of Commonwealth Literature’s annual summary of what was published in New Zealand...
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Grimm Tales
Monument to brothers Grimm on the market place in Hanau. (Hessen, Germany) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last year, the Goethe-Institut New Zealand (in association with the New Zealand Listener and the...
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Poetry and Gender in New Zealand Publishing – the latest
Since 2008, I’ve been looking at all the poetry books published in New Zealand each year and reporting on the gender balance. That first year, a little over a third (36%) of the poetry books published...
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‘Sweet As’ Launch Reminder
Just a wee reminder that this is coming up next Tuesday. It’s for a good cause and everyone gets a 20% discount off the Recommended Retail Price on the night! Date: Tuesday, 4th November...
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Poetry & Ethnicity in New Zealand Publishing
Thanks to poet Mary Cresswell, who has done a bit of sleuthing, I can add a postscript to my post about Poetry & Gender in NZ Publishing. Mary has looked at all the poetry books published in New...
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NZ Fiction & Non-fiction by gender & ethnicity 2014
I couldn’t help myself. I had to go through the fiction list as well. Then the non-fiction. And what an interesting result. The 2014 list of New Zealand books (the latest available from the Journal of...
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NZ Poetry 2015 by gender & ethnicity
Every year I spend several days hunched over a spreadsheet doing a bit of a round-up of who had a poetry book published in New Zealand the previous year, so you don’t have to. I’m interested in whether...
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New Zealand Fiction & Non-Fiction by Gender & Ethnicity 2015
…and here is the breakdown of fiction published in New Zealand in 2015, by the gender and ethnicity of the authors (as far as I can make out). In terms of gender, women dominate in the fiction stakes,...
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Out Here
The very first poems I had published (apart from the ones at primary school) were in ‘Eat These Sweet Words’, a collection of lesbian poetry (ed Sue Fitchett et al) from Publishing Giant Press in...
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Who Gets Published in Aotearoa? – the 2019 round-up
Yes, yes, I know it’s out-of-date and I haven’t done it for ages. The Back Story For some years now, I’ve been looking at book titles published in New Zealand in any given year, broken down by the...
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Spellcasting
On Saturday 17th June 2023 1pm – 2pm, I’ll be reading poems with the amazing Rachel McAlpine, Rebecca Hawkes, Arihia Latham, Hannah Mettner, Cadence Chung and Harriet Prebble, in response to the...
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Poetry, Poetry!
It’s National Poetry Day this Friday 25th August 2023 and there’ll be events all over Aotearoa to celebrate: here’s the calendar I’ll be attending the Poets on the Writers Walk Salon here in Te...
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