Linda Collins

I'm presenting a paper on Saturday at the Singapore Literature Conference, 2pm Singapore time, via recording, on 'Unmaking the Lyric: Hamid Roslan and the new poetics of Singapore.' Thanks, Anna Reckin, who encouraged me at the University of East Anglia to write the initial essay. #poetry #singlit

Honoured to be in this book on the supernatural by Dr Jesse Bering. Jesse interviewed me about incidents recounted in my memoir, Loss Adjustment. #lifeafterdeath

Flash Frontier Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.

Excited to be on a panel discussing writing across geographies, Friday 13, 1pm NZ time live on Flash Frontier YouTube channel. #nffdnz
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Stories from the heartwood A new collection of short writing doubles down on language, Tom McKinlay writes. A well known whakataukī (proverb) could very well stand as the...

Thrilled to be in this: www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...

Sometimes you wonder, what's your writing all for? Then a stranger messages:
'I read "Home, a point of departure" in Undertow. I'm a foreigner in Singapore and "We were always just renters, existing on the periphery" resonated. Condolences for your daughter'.
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Grateful to
see my book, Loss Adjustment, in this line-up
of research by the wonderful writer @miafarlane.bsky.social #suicideprevention

Thanks for
the mention. Lovely to see my book, Loss Adjustment, there with its blue cover featuring kingfishers. We try
and make a difference. #LossAdjustment #suicideprevention

‘A culture of silence’: How speaking up on suicide might save lives As those bereaved by suicide struggle to tell their stories, experts say that reporting laws are also keeping the issue in the shadows.

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NZ media did this on suicide awareness, including an extensive interview with me (lower down). The Sunday Star-Times journalist was respectful to my late daughter Victoria, and worked in references to my book, Loss Adjustment. #LossAdjustment #suicideprevention

The wonderful Faction Press Singapore is launching this essay ezine soon. I'm in it, humbled to be beside the brilliant Filipino poet, essayist and scholar Lawrence Ypil.

Congratulations to fellow UEA Poetry classmates Imogen Hughes @poetr-imi.bsky.social and Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social, second and third in the Disabled Poetry Prize, writing on illness and Autism. @ueanewwritinglive.bsky.social
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Gutted that Meta pirated my book, Loss Adjustment, to train AI, according to The Atlantic journal, which provides a search box. My book is about my late daughter and her suicide, for god's sake. Is there no respect?
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Thrilled that friend Stuart Henrys (pictured with wife Estelle) has been awarded the 2025 Science NZ Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at Parliament. Stuart, a geophysicist, leads groundbreaking research on the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand's largest fault line.

Brian Turner dies Farewell to a major New Zealand author.

New Zealand poet Brian Turner has died. A giant, a huge loss. At a writers festival, he saw I was lost and invited me to his table. He understood grief, and endorsed my book, Loss Adjustment. newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/06/b...

Congrats to former UEA MA classmates,OliviaTuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social and Imogen McHugh, for being shortlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize. Lovely poets, and people. x.com/disabledpoet...

Kind of depressed Gboyega didn't win the TS Eliot.

Thrilled to have my poem, 'baby tooth', in the Winter edition of the UK's Lighthouse Literary Journal. An honour to be amongst such wonderful poets.

You’re a terrific teacher of all things poetry, really. Forever in your debt.

Carrie is a terrific teacher of the prose poem. This looks great.

It’s in!

Have had to hold off buying festive frippery cos waiting

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This was a collaborative flash I did with the noted fiction writer Noelle de Jesus, for the Mekong Review. An amazing experience.

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Sorry to read this. As if the redundancies last year were not enough. Best wishes.

Victorian Heritage Week in Oamaru, NZ, and I am channeling ‘slatternly housekeeper’. Conflicted about donning the garb of the Coloniser Oppressor, but interesting to feel its own constriction.
Other pix include my pilates teacher in orange frills doing the can-can.Pix: Malcolm McLeod

I'm the 'Poet in the Wild' at the British Association for Romantic Studies. Thanks @adamneikirk.bsky.social for your write-up. Poems from an unpublished chapbook, publisher in hiatus. @poetrysociety.bsky.social @modernletters.bsky.social
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Wrote a review of Meantime, By Majella Cullinane, for the NZ Poetry Society.
I've tried to make this review a conversation among poets while honouring different ways of being.
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Describing the indescribable: how Denise Riley’s “A Part Song” enables readers to encounter her trauma The poetry of trauma can be especially difficult to read if it is written by a mother who has lost a child. Society has expectations of the grieving mother that involve stoicism and silence. Reader...

I have an essay just out in the peer-reviewed'Poetry as Therapy' journal in the US. It's on Denise Riley's trauma poetics and is based on my Diss at UEA. #PoetryasTherapy #UEA

At the Point of Seeing by Megan Kitching - Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books The end of the world: a debut collection on 'the fragility of the earth under our feet '.

Huge congratulations to Dunedin poet Megan Kitching who has just been longlisted for the UK's Laurel Prize in ecowriting for her debut collection, At the Point of Seeing. Read my review here: www.nzreviewofbooks.com/at-the-point...

Poetry Shelf feature: Poetry for World Suicide Prevention Day Unlatched      The little green gate  where I entered and left childhood is unlatched.           Linda Collins from Sign Language for the Death of Meaning                Last week, World Suicide Preve...

Thanks @paulajoygreen.bsky.social for putting up a piece on Poetry Shelf about the Dunedin reading for World Suicide Prevention Day. #poetry #nzsa nzpoetryshelf.com/2024/09/17/p...