Went to Wilco last night at the Town Hall. They played a two and a half hour set, not counting the encore, and kept a pretty consistent leve...

[The National's new album, High Violet , comes out next month, but you can listen now at the New York Times ] The last album I truly lo...

Nothing better, after a week of long hours working for an ever-shrinking public service, to get home and find a courier post parcel in the l...

The Villanelle:  A 19 line poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, two rhyme sounds and two refrains at specified intervals. That’...

This week I took the cinquain for a test drive: a poetic form consisting of five lines, with the lines containing 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllable...

Photo credit: Darren Cliff The Alley, Autumn Brown leaves collect about the homeless, Busy sorting the colours of recent hopes And cas...

Best New Zealand Poems 2009 was launched at midday today, which made me happy: it's becoming a key date in my reading year. I was in U...

As The Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong (novel, NZ) “She put down the lantern, suddenly wishing she’d blown out the flame. The hatpin. ...