In 2003, I won the "Previously Unpublished" category of the inaugural Robbie Burns Poetry Competition with a poem titled Rain Wild Magic, and have since been actively writing, reading, workshopping and performing poetry. I am a member of the New Zealand Poetry Society: Te Hunga Tito Ruri O Aotearoa, and involved in two poetry workshop groups — the Friday Group (aka the Boiler House) and the Small White Teapot Haiku Group.
I currently host a monthly poetry feature for Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM, where I get to talk with poets about their work and showcase their poetry to Christchurch and Canterbury listeners. Guests for 2008 include Dunedin artist and poet Claire Beynon, and the Canadian (UK based) poet Nancy Mattson.
Recent highlights include reading as a guest poet during the Canterbury Poets' Autumn Reading Season in 2007, winning Australia's A2O poetry competition (2007) and being a finalist in the Takahe National Poetry Competition (2006). I have had poems published in Poetry NZ, JAAM, Bravado, foam:e and the "Crossed Cultures" special edition of Blackmail Press, and work included in the taste of nashi, New Zealand's third national haiku anthology.
Click here to read The Wayfarer or Birdlings Flat or winter sun (a haiku)
2008 |
Leaving and Boundaries published in Before the Sirocco, the New Zealand Poetry Society anthology 2008 Haiku, Silver Wedding Day Commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition 2008 and subsequently published in the anthology Before the Sirocco North published in Bravado 14 The Trojan Shore and Homing (Ithaca Conversations sequence) published in JAAM 26 Outback and Shout published in Poetry NZ 37 Haiku, May Day and Yellow Admiral published in the taste of nashi, the third New Zealand haiku anthology Generations and Ti published in the Blackmail Press special edition: "Crossed Cultures" (18 April 2008) You're Lucky, Cafê and White Night published in Foam:e 2008 |
2007 |
The Wayfarer, Orison and from the hill featured in Takahe literary magazine (Vol. 62) Rain, Commended in the Gum Blossoms (Australia) short poetry contest; published Scribbligum, July 2007 Castle Rock, published in The Christchurch Press, 18 July 2007 Argos, First; This is My Heart, Second, in the Alpha2Omega Poetry Competition 2007 (Australia); Birdlings Flat, published in The Christchurch Press, April 18, 2007 Art Deco, Highly Commended in the Scribbligum (Australia) short poetry contest; published Scribbligum, March 2007 Haiku, hanging out washing published as Kiwihaiku in the NZ Poetry Society journal, a fine line, March 2007 Invited to front a monthly programme for Women on Air, Plains (96.9) FM, featuring women's voices in poetry |
2006 |
The Wayfarer, Finalist in the Takahe National Poetry Competition My Dunedin, Highly Commended in the Yellow Moon (Australia) "Spirit of Place" Competition; published in Yellow Moon magazine, December 2006 (Volume 20) Haiku, winter sun... published in the NZ Poetry Society Anthology, Tiny Gaps, November 2006 New Zealand Dredge, Highly Commended in the Gems and Jewels Literary Competition (Australia) |
2005 |
Yellow Moon (Australia):
Guest Poet, Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM, 24 September 2005 Wings, published in the Fugacity '05 Online Poetry Anthology, NZ Electronic Poetry Centre |