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Poetry Shelf readings: Leah Dodd reads from Past Lives

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Leah Dodd reads from Past Lives, Te Herenga Waka university Press, 2023. You can read my review here.

Leah reads ‘the sun is out so why am I still depressed?’

Leah reads ‘tether’

Leah reads ‘revolution’

Leah reads ‘muscle memory’

Leah reads ‘domestic goddess’

Leah Dodd is a poet and writer based in Pōneke/Wellington. Her first collection of poetry, Past Lives, was published in March 2023 by Te Herenga Waka University Press. Leah holds an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from the IIML, and won the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry for her work there. She has been published in various journals and places, including Sweet Mammalian, Starling, The Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff, and Mayhem Journal. More can be found collated on Leah’s website

Te Herenga Waka University Press page 

Poetry Shelf audio spot: Johanna Emeney reads ‘Favoured Exception’

 

 

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‘Favoured Exception’ previously published in Poetry NZ 2017

 

 

Johanna Emeney has a background as a senior school English Literature teacher — a vocation which she enjoyed for thirteen years. She is the author of two books of poetry: Apple & Tree (2011, Cape Catley) and Family History (2017, Mākaro Press). In 2017, she also wrote a nonfiction book called The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities (ibidem Press). Jo is currently a senior tutor at Massey University, and she co-facilitates the Michael King Young Writers Programme with Rosalind Ali. She is married to David, with a demanding family of two goats and six cats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry Shelf audio spot: Joan Fleming’s ‘Imprints of Water’

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Joan Fleming is the author of two books of poetry, The Same as Yes and Failed Love Poems (both with Victoria University Press), and her third book is forthcoming with Cordite Press in 2019. She has recently completed a PhD in ethnopoetics at Monash University, a project which arose out of deep family ties and ongoing relationships with Warlpiri families in Central Australia. Her honours include the Biggs Poetry Prize, a Creative New Zealand writing fellowship, an Australian Postgraduate Award, the Verge Prize for Poetry, and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize from the Hunter Writers Centre.

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry Shelf Audio Spot: Nina Powles reads ‘Mid-Autumn Moon Festival 2016’

 

 

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‘Mid-Autumn Moon Festival 2016’ was originally published in Starling 5.

 

Nina Powles is from Wellington and currently lives in London. She is the author of Luminescent (Seraph Press, 2017) and is poetry editor at The Shanghai Literary Review. Her poetry pamphlet Field Notes on a Downpour is forthcoming from If A Leaf Falls Press in late 2018. Nina is on the shortlist for the  the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize (UK).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry Shelf Audio Spot: Chris Tse reads ‘I want things that won’t make me happy’

 

 

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Chris Tse, ‘I want things that won’t make me happy’, He’s so MASC, Auckland University Press, 2018

Auckland University Press page