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Poet Iona Winter has assembled a liminal gathering, a multidisciplinary anthology (or ‘almanac’) on grief, with over 100 contributors. It promises to be a powerful book navigating a difficult topic, a topic important to open up a dialogue about.

Iona is currently seeking Boosted funding with the money going to printing the book, providing a koha for contributors and holding launches in Auckland and Dunedin. Any help spreading the word would be awesome as every donation, no matter how little, helps.

“a liminal gathering celebrates the destigmatisation of grief, by making it relatable through multiple creative lenses, and to normalise the various ways grief can be expressed. The almanac seeks to provide comfort, and act as a taonga to be shared between loving hands, during difficult times.”a liminal gathering celebrates the destigmatisation of grief, by making it relatable through multiple creative lenses, and to normalise the various ways grief can be expressed. The almanac seeks to provide comfort, and act as a taonga to be shared between loving hands, during difficult times.

This Boosted campaign is to raise funds for: the printing of a liminal gathering (approximately $6,900), to provide a small koha (of $50 to 103 contributing artists – including making their copies available at cost); because a reality of being a creative in NZ is that most of us are unpaid, and finally to hold two book launches in Dunedin and Auckland during November. 

I am donating my time/energy/aroha to all the behind-the-scenes mahi – shout outs to the generous wahine who gave koha to support me with this. While Boosted is a reward-free platform, there is a platform fee, and the cost for this has been included in our fundraising goal of $14,000.”

Iona Winter