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Mister Luxon's Suits - a collaborative poem

Where the waves crash, shadows play and dance, I remember you shout that question undid me. Actually it's easier to walk, I'm sorry I have to leave, dreams take...

Astray by Rachel K

Home repairs driving me up the wall. Finding it hard to stand tall. Dad quick to criticize my dreamy artist eyes. The tone of the yellow wall - pale. In my mind...

Froot Shop by p

orbs there are a lot of orbs some might be elliptical there may be some that are grass like many colours splatter squelch and fall from the troughs that hold th...

Perfect Sense by Buddy

Any closer to the sun and we will all burn, any further away and we will all freeze, a perfect setting, our great earth. Plants give off oxygen. They purify the...

Revival by Madeline Emily Heron

Her regard is constant, generous: connection, change, growth, abundance, nature craves cradles us all. Besmirched necessity cuts experience, out of control she ...

Squirm? by Sherie C

Pungent smells of the wet market loud calls from the sellers wicker baskets with live animals hold tight, cash in pocket grins, sneers and leers hunt for the wo...

This is a Political Poem... A Joke - by p

“There is no depression in New Zealand There are no sheep on our farms There is no depression in New Zealand We can all keep perfectly calm” ~Blam Blam Blam (Ju...

Allen Curnow and Michele Leggott - Workshop - September 14, 2022

Hello, everyone. Allen Curnow died in 2001 at the age of 90. Much of his poetry was written while he was a teacher in Auckland and is about the Waitākere Ranges...

George Herbert and Damien Wilkins - Workshop 05/09/22

Hello, everyone. George Herbert was born in Wales and died in 1633 at the age of 39. He served in the Parliament of England and later in the Church of England. ...

Aleksandra Lane and William Butler Yeats - Workshop 30/08/22

Hello, everyone. Aleksandra Lane lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Her first book of poetry was published in 2012. William Butler Yeats died at the age of 73 in...

Maja Haderlap and Bei Dao - Workshop 22/08/22

Hello, everyone. Maja Haderlap was born in Austria in 1961. She has won awards for writing in both Slovenian and German. Bei Dao was born in China in 1949. He i...

Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn and David Mason - Workshop 15/08/22

Hello, everyone. Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn was an Auckland poet who died in 1957. He attended Auckland Grammar, worked on roads and taught art. David Mason is ...

Cliff Fell and Arthur Sze - Workshop 08/08/22

Hello, everyone. Cliff Fell is a New Zealand writer and musician who was born in London in 1955. Arthur Sze was born in New York in 1950. He is also a teacher a...

Kerry Popplewell and Rainer Maria Rilke - Workshop 01/08/22

Hello, everyone. Kerry Popplewell is from Ngaio in Wellington, New Zealand. Steele Roberts published her first collection of poetry in 2010. Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Sea foam | weekly prompt

A quick scribble in response to this week's prompt, behind the mask. Needs editing but seems fitting to post the rough first go for this. Sea foam Today I smile...

Peter Bland and Sharon Olds - Workshop 25/08/22

Hello, everyone. Peter Bland was born in 1934 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He lives in New Zealand, where he writes poetry and acts. Sharon Olds was born in...

Marina Tsvetaeva and Marty Smith - Workshop 20/06/22

Hello, everyone. Marina Tsvetaeva died in 1941 at the age of 48. She lived through the Russian Revolution. Her husband was executed for espionage. Marty Smith i...

Leonard Cohen and Lord Bryon - Workshop 17/06/22

Hello, everyone. Leonard Cohen was born in Quebec, Canada. He died in 2016, aged 82. He released 15 albums as well as several books of poetry. George Gordon Byr...

Amy Lowell and Medb Charleton - Workshop 13/06/22

Hello, everyone. Amy Lowell was born in Massachusetts, in the Unites States. She died in 1925 at the age of 51. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry the year a...

Ron Padgett and Ruth Upperton - Workshop 10/06/22

Hello, everyone. Ron Padgett was born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has been publishing poetry, fiction and translations for over 50 years. Ruth Upperton died ...