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st new zealand poem i was ever introduced to with my ill health it is likely to be my swan song collection i am delighted to have compiled it and here s a piece from fiona kidman s speech at the launch there s something marvelous and exhilarating and absolutely special about gathering with friends for the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year of the century it feels like a unique moment in time the greek philosopher pythagoras saw 10 as the symbol of the universe and of expressing the whole of human knowledge it does seem to me that this idea of the whole of human knowledge rings one or two bells here as on this 10th day we launch a collection of one man s poetic human knowledge distilled into those poems he loves the best 100 new zealand poems that have caught his attention lingered in his memory and stayed there as lasting sentinels totem poles if you like to his lifelong love of language and poetry or to put it another way as a beacon to the wider life of the mind a way into learning and understanding that which is important it s no real surprise to those of us who love poetry that although poetry falls on hard times it never dies the voice of the poet is always with us the singing words that resonate in our heads are carried like emblems of grief and happiness there to sustain us in good times and bad the music of poetry embedded in our subconscious simply never leaves us or not the best of it those which we love the most posted by annee at 11 26 pm no comments tuesday october 3 2017 a sestina on housing the writing group i belong to sets difficult challenges since i joined quite recently we ve been required to write a pantoum a triolet and now a sestina in the wake of the election mine turned out to be about housing see the links at the end for just a few of the stories exposing what far too people are trying to cope with not to mention the families living in cars and garages the pattern of use for the six repeated end words is correct except for the ending where i have only two lines instead of the usual three housing crisis anne else desperate to escape the broken hovels where all day long their children lived in darkness packed into courts and lanes not far from mansions where clever men drew landscapes bathed in sunlight they sailed for months packed beside their neighbours and built their new flimsy wooden houses no wonder we are still obsessed with houses we turn away from streets of broken hovels where garages are full of extra neighbours we hear that no one needs to live in darkness since landscapes here are always bathed in sunlight and fields are filling up with brand new mansions across the harbour in their warm dry mansions the owners never venture near their houses where cold and damp rise up despite the sunlight their tenants write new histories of hovels lighting the gas to keep away the darkness sleeping in one room just like their neighbours owners quarrel with their neighbours danger cannot be divorced from mansions driveway lights cannot dispel the darkness hidden fissures eat into big houses turning them into different kinds of hovels worming the walls and letting in the sunlight there must be cities where the sunlight is warm enough to go round all the neighbours where only history books remember hovels and families fill the few remaining mansions where streets are lined with sound and sheltering houses and no one lights the gas against the darkness here and now the landscape fills with darkness where coughing children play in sunlight the rest of us stay quietly in our houses too scared to gather up our neighbours and show them how precariously those mansions perch on the shaky roofs and walls of hovels houses grow warm when sunlight follows darkness no hovels no more mansions only neighbours http www ehinz ac nz indicators indoor environment health conditions related to cold and damp houses http www habitat org nz about the_need_in_nz html http www nzherald co nz nz news article cfm c_id 1 objectid 11897319 http www stuff co nz national health 81278445 complaints of despicable mould and leaking prompt housing nz to act posted by annee at 3 36 pm 1 comment saturday september 2 2017 how princess diana saved my mother s life yes i do know exactly where i was and what i was doing when the news of diana s death reached new zealand for the last month we ve been seeing endless footage of her and her charitable work has featured prominently but few people know that even in death she managed to perform one last gracious service this seems a fitting time to tell the true story of how princess diana saved my mother s life i t s hard to think of what to give my mother when i was young she had a weekly women s magazine order the new zealand woman s weekly of course as well as the english woman s weekly and the glamorous us ladies home journal along with comics for me so for a few years i give her magazine subs for christmas until she says they re full of stars she s never heard of when i lived at home i never saw her reading books but one day she tells me that when she was alone all day wanting to keep up with me she secretly read my english schoolbooks then she started in on dad s collection of reader s digest condensed books i buy her catherine cookson romances where deprived but determined girls break free of their past at first she loves them but after the fifth one she says they do all seem a bit the same so i track down classics from her youth forever amber precious bane and memoirs of women she knows aunt daisy cookson herself the illegitimate laundry hand turned rich and famous author her favourite is the story of an ordinary 1950s housewife journey from stranger s rest by dorothy alice ford when you re reading something good she says you forget everything else at ninety she falls the doctors say she s got the hip of a seventy year old they patch her up and send her home telling her she must get moving i fly up to auckland to spell off my sister mum lies there with her awkward catheter resisting all my ploys refusing to get out of bed on the third day the phone rings it s her grand daughter rebecca princess diana s been in a car accident soon she calls again diana s dead my mother hauls herself up teeters into the living room and turns on the television she eats her dinner in front of it on a tray next morning she gets dressed for her ninety first birthday i bring her diana her true story in her own words mum can t wait for the first time in our lives we sit across from each other at the table reading my mother frances ryda matthews in 1995 when she was 88 with me and my sister susan posted by annee at 1 52 pm 3 comments sunday february 12 2017 who will prevail my last post here was on 6 november and i know why there have been none since three days later on 9 november donald trump won the us presidential election with 306 electoral college votes compared with 232 for hillary clinton a shift of 100 votes from the 2012 election when barack obama won with 332 to mitt romney s 206 but clinton won 2 8 million more popular votes than trump reflecting the greater support for her in the states with most people you can tell i m retreating into the numbers here to avoid fronting up to the reality of trump s victory but i think i need to write about it in order to be able to write about anything else i see it as one of those rare historical tipping points like the assassination of arch duke ferdinand in 1914 or the japanese attack on pearl harbour that are not inevitable but once they take place have a vast impact on the world s future but we can t yet know what that impact will be the future is even murkier than usual because trump is the first president never to have held either public or military office as his first weeks in office have very clearly revealed this means he has no real understanding of what is involved in heading a nation within the constraints of a democratic system he knows that obama resorted to executive orders when congress and the senate blocked his initiatives so that is how he is now putting his campaign slogans into practice his orders appear to be worded with little grasp of the complex realities of government let alone of whether they clash with the constitution he has just sworn to uphold apart from golf cue bill english s canny mention of bob charles the one area where he does have experience and can claim expertise is in business exactly how successful he has been in terms of making more money out of the money he inherited is unclear and it s made more opaque by his refusal to release his tax returns as all previous presidential candidates have done apparently it s not actually a legal requirement so it makes perfect sense that his only genuine guiding principle seems to be freeing up business including the finance sector to make as much money as possible though he s paid lip service to making companies keep jobs in the us this is unlikely to mean much in practice judging by his advisers and his nominees we re likely to see wide ranging attacks on employee protections from anti discrimination and equal opportunity laws to minimum wages and benefits for the unemployed in the name of freedom and growth he is intent on cutting the taxes paid by big businesses and those who run them massively reducing the funds available for public services he s reportedly preparing a budget requiring drastic cuts to these services and he is appointing people who believe in shifting as large a share of them as possible to private enterprise and religious groups his campaign rhetoric repeatedly attacked hillary clinton for being in thrall to wall street but as will hutton points out this charge fits him perfectly goldman sachs number two gary cohn is to be trump s chief economic adviser his treasury secretary steve mnuchin was 20 years at goldman sachs before running onewest bank which made a fortune by improperly foreclosing on mortgages in ethnic minority communities after the financial crisis cohn has promised to attack all aspects of dodd frank the partially effective regulatory framework that obama laboriously passed into law in 2010 in the teeth of republican and wall street opposition trump is calling dodd franks a disaster on which he aims to do a big number there is only one end to regulate the links in the financial network so they have even less oversight than they do now the consequences of this election are likely to be even worse than those of 2008 s great financial crisis for ordinary americans including many of those who voted for this president and many more of the disaffected disillusioned 45 percent who didn t vote at all the consequences for the planet we must all live on are even more serious because they are almost certain to be irreversible the president and his henchmen seem prepared not only to permit but to actively encourage more harm to an already perilously endangered environment he is already removing regulations designed to stop fossil fuel corporations causing damage and his nominee for head of the environmental protection agency has a record of opposing environmental protection there are two clear signs of hope the huge surge of opposition and resistance led by women of all races creeds and classes and the checks and balances built into the us system which have already resulted in firm judicial rulings against the president s chaotic immigration edict but right now no one can say who will prevail posted by annee at 10 45 pm no comments sunday november 6 2016 how we survive last week i saw this event ad on facebook the idea of a feminist poetry slam was irresistible and i reckoned the two women performing would be well worth hearing carrie rudzinski was judged fourth best in the world at the 2014 women of the world poetry slam she s performed her work across new zealand australia canada india and in almost all 50 of the united states currently a guest lecturer teaching spoken word at manukau institute of technology s faculty of creative arts she s also programme director for the rising voices youth poetry movement olivia hall has been performing poetry since 2013 in 2015 she was matariki slam champion capital slam champion and placed third at the national slam finals she s one of the organisers for wellington s acclaimed poetry in motion and is currently completing her honours degree in sociology at victoria university back in august simply advertising their feminist show on facebook had brought trouble as olivia explained to 95bfm they didn t expect the trolling they got but they simply deleted these comments it seems the trolls took revenge by denouncing their event page as abusive because facebook suddenly took it down but both wellington shows were sellouts and now they were back with the latest version i got there at opening time to be sure of getting a good seat near the back i thought i might have to leave early because of a intolerably loud music or b not being able to hear the words despite my hearing aids but it was fine i was 40 years older than anyone else there but that was okay because it made me invisible i d thought it would be like the old days with no men not banned just staying well away i was completely wrong most of those there were young male female couples the show is billed as a biting and honest narrative on what it is to be a woman living and surviving in 2016 addressing everything from rape culture to body image to heartbreak to queen j k s hermione as a feminist role model this show carries a switchblade and a hallelujah all true they had me and the other couple of hundred people from the opening lines i was smitten with sisterly empathy admiration and envy for their hard won confidence talent honesty and passion and their ability to put feminist truth love and strength into such shining words but i was smitten with sadness too forty five years after feminism or as carrie and olivia call it common sense first found me women are still having to speak out on the same deadly stuff and when it comes to body shaming so perfectly demonstrated by trump its dominating destructive power has not diminished it has only grown stronger so much so that in a recent poll of us teenage girls 42 percent said trump s disparaging remarks about women had negatively affected the way they thought about their own bodies olivia s poems on her hard fought battle to defeat such feelings made me cry in sorrow and in rage olivia hall a letter to 15 year old fat me the skinny list i d like to post different kinds of poems too but these are the only ones i could find on youtube posted by annee at 11 34 pm 2 comments sunday october 30 2016 finders keepers as readers of my facebook page will know last weekend the results of the new zealand heritage writing competition run by the canterbury society of authors and christchurch city council were announced the theme for the short prose section was hidden histories and the piece i wrote finders keepers was the w...