In some situations, as many of us are! The one time I saw her in person was actually at a really crowded literary event in Dunedin/Ōtepoti, where she was having a whale of a time, laughing and chatting and watching on with family and friends.
Janet Frame's 100th birthday celebrations continue all week! 🎂 This article raises several glasses to her writing and her steely determination. Thank you, Janet Frame, for your extraordinary example. 📚. #pukapuka#aotearoa#writers#JanetFrame#authors#fiction#poetrynewsroom.co.nz/2024/08/28/j...
A visit to Ōamaru to mark the centenary of Janet Frame, born August 28, 1924
Would a collective of halls be a haul? Attentive, lyrical, and memorable National Poetry Day to all who celebrate it!
The image illustrating this story is definitely worth a share! Photo by Ivan Rogers. Story first published by Fish Publishing and now online at Reading Room. #pukapuka#fiction#shortstoriesnewsroom.co.nz/2024/08/03/s...
A gothic masterpiece by the great Emma Neale
Apopros of nothing other than the love of an Elizabeth Bishop poem (and the fact that it's winter here in the southern hemisphere):
The @pacificraft.bsky.social couplets here are sharp as a tack, and witty to boot. Fist bump to Paula Green, curator!
Geography is largely to blame there, I’d say. (I feel the same about your dad, in fact. I met him only a few times, and in London, but enjoyed each encounter a lot.)
Congratulations Jane! My copy just arrived (circuitous route via wrong address) and it looks gorgeous. Nice design flourishes xxx
How lovely.
Remembering Vincent O’Sullivan. 🖤 #Aotearoa#pukapuka
'I particularly loved the subversive, honed one-liners he’d say sotto voce to me (and to many others, I’m sure) at book launches. They felt like notes passed from the most intelligent tearaway in the class: they often skewered hypocrisy, pomposity and blaggards.' thespinoff.co.nz/books/29-04-...
A tribute to one of the giants of New Zealand literature.