Writing Samples

Fiction
Read an extract from Entanglement in the 2022 Ockhams Sampler.
Read the beginning of Late Sonata here (Amazon Kindle sample)

Poetry
Infinities ( Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2021)
Oakura (Turbine)
My Father’s Painting (Rattle)
This Poem is Conversational (Best NZ Poems 2015)
Objective Correlative (Finalist, Rattle Poetry Prize 2011)
Forgetting (Cordite)
Selections from “Micrographia” (Takahē)

Creative Non-fiction
The New World (Terrain)
One Eye Open (in Strong Words: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition, Otago UP, 2019)

1 thought on “Writing Samples”

holdenlyric says:

October 25, 2014 at 10:42 pm

Some really amazing writing!

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My novel Entanglement (Mākaro Press) was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.

Interviewed about my novel Entanglement by Neil Johnstone from the Wellington City Libraries.

Interviewed by Lynn Freeman about my poetry collection Brass Band to Follow on RNZ’s Standing Room Only.

Brass Band to Follow, my fourth collection of poetry, has been published by Otago Univerity Press.

My short novel Late Sonata has won the Seizure Viva La Novella Prize and has been published by Brio Books.

Interviewed about Late Sonata by Lynn Freeman, Standing Room Only, Radio New Zealand.

A few recent poems in Takahe.

Review of Poetry and Mindfulness on Corpus.

Interviewed by Jesse Mulligan on Radio NZ about Poetry and Mindfulness.

My essay on immigration, cryonics and the novel The New World in Terrain.

My essay about Bell’s Palsy, “On Harvey Dent,” in Medical Literary Messenger.

Interviewed by Anna Livesey for Ears Wide Open.