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nightmare fuel! artist, writer, beast, they/them 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Joined May 2020
yes thanks my writing is going well and is normal i am not writing poem after poem about Phar Lap, champion racehorse
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“In the hot pink night I am a runaway bride hitching
up many skirts to knock on your door The sky is only bats no stars
and the compasses have all been polarised” - Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), ‘Nocturne with Stranger’
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IT LIVES! The eleventh issue of Sweet Mammalian will be officially unleashed this Aotearoa-evening with @verbwellington & is live online now Ft. @evansquilliams @ghastlily @alex_tretbar @thetearooms @ghostb1rd @leahjdodd @leahjdodd @zephyrzhangz & more https://t.co/TWqJkvzGp2
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new poem Cold Erotica up on @TheSpinoffTV today!! big pash
thespinoff.co.nz
A new poem by Loretta Riach.
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"A baby in the arms of a small child running backwards across a street, which is having debris lifted from it as if it were thousands of spores brushed up into streaming light" - Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), 'Reverse Tragedy' (after Matt Rasmussen / for a free Palestine)
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thank you starling always! recording this in australia made me hear my own accent for the first time and now i understand why so many people here find me incomprehensible
Happy @NZPoetryDay! We're kicking off our last day of online readings from Issue 18 with the great Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), reading their new poem 'A Dinosaur as King of the Shepherds', one of their four poems that open our new issue:
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wow i really miss aotearoa but a new issue of starling can make everything better
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FOUR new poems out today, tumeke starling!! 🖤🖤🖤
Tragedy and survival, family lines and liberation: Starling Issue 18 is here, with the best new poetry and prose from New Zealand writers under 25 at https://t.co/KfuBEytGeN.
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doing important work for trans-tasman relations by making my coworkers at the deli endure my 12-hour-long playlist of nz music
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Good Books was such a big part of my life in Wellington, and working for an employer who constantly put their workers first over and over again is one of the biggest gifts I’ve ever received. We had so much fun! Independent bookstores forever and ever and ever
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new poem up on The Spinoff now! thanks Chris 🎷🎷
“The sound that emerged was not full or rich,
my lips splintered,
my tongue heavy…” ‘Solo for Alto Saxophone’ by Loretta Riach https://t.co/jXQx99klm1
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“why don’t you dump your 200 kilograms of salt into the ocean” i am afraid . of what that would do to the fish
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luckily i did receive the most replies i’ve ever gotten from anything and they were all people telling me how hilarious my 200 kilograms of salt problem is!
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posted on my ig story last week asking for help to relocate the 200 kilograms of salt i have in my possession. and i did not receive one helpful response. what is the world coming to when you can’t give away your 200 kilograms of salt………..
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just suffered a full year’s worth of brain rot on jan 1st by watching the new hunger games movie, new years resolution is to stop consuming american media :)
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“I need you to take me down to your dance floor,
down to your 2013 suburban malaise dream sequence,
and down further, through the molten core,
through every instance of you” - Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), ‘A Song For You’ https://t.co/EPlLIQFZEu
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new poem up now in @badappledotgay new years resolution is to write more poems that can be tagged under “bush”. ★ https://t.co/SFyRPKLPo0
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The 2023 issue of Turbine | Kapohau is here! Including new work from Starling favourites @ellabooray, @anuja_m9, @HarrietSalmon_, @cadence_chung, @jrtmccarthy, @ghostb1rd, @joetrinidad115, @chrisjtse, Maddie Ballard, Madeleine Fenn, Hebe Kearney and so many more!
Turbine | Kapohau launch alert. Co-editing this issue with two of my MA cohort mates was a blast. So many gems in here. Have a read https://t.co/liD6Qsx4Bf
#nzfiction #poetry
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doomsday election year poem by me, now available for your eyes in the newest @takahemagazine 🏚
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