Essays

Quick update and three reliable links

One to listen, one to read, one to watch

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Iti te kupu: A few small words (in a vast universe)

The origins of the name for this newsletter

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Starlings-eye View

Do we really occupy different worlds? Or just different imaginations?

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The weight of your own conscience

At what age is it no longer acceptable to look away? (Lois rides again)

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Abandoning Twitter, Facebook's out to pasture, reel tired of IG & TikTok, where shall we connect in real time online?

Substack's answer is a new thing called "chats", everyone's trying it out so I might, too

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The narrative arc of your own life

Making sense of the crazy shit we do

Poppin' off Pānui

Poppin' Off Pānui #6: with some unmissable weekend reading/listening

And a fair bit of love for the art of Zines

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Babe, that ain't hard

From the separation diaries: for my solo Māmā doing it tough out there

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Poppin' Off Pānui #5: And a plea to all the tired but talented New Zealand writers on the fence about newsletters

In which I enthusiastically share with you what I'm writing, reading, listening to, thinking, etc.

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Hands fluent in silence

A love song to all the words that have ever been crushed inside the chests of hardworking men

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It's better to write the feelings than to try and outrun them

From the separation diaries

Audio & interviews

What is the point of art/story?

In (metaphorical) conversation with Jack Trolove and Anahera Gildea