Linda Collins
@lindacollins.bsky.social
Poetry, essays, memoir, fiction, reviews, journalism. Loss Adjustment, Sign Language for the Death of Reason. SL Bridport, Joy Harjo; runner-up Mslexia. MAs from UEA, IIML. NZ, UK, Asia, US publications. Introvert.
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
Excited to be on a panel discussing writing across geographies, Friday 13, 1pm NZ time live on Flash Frontier YouTube channel. #nffdnz youtube.com/@flashfronti...
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Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction.
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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'. (www.faction.press/product-page...)
Grateful to see my book, Loss Adjustment, in this line-up of research by the wonderful writer @miafarlane.bsky.social #suicideprevention
Mia Farlane@miafarlane.bsky.social · last yr.Found such a variety of books #starttheconversation #changethenarrative while writing my lit-fic UK-NZ novel. @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @jpseabright.bsky.social @lindacollins.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @matthaig.bsky.social Read more & listen to my short story miafarlane.com/news/change-...
www.thepress.co.nz/wellbeing/36... 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
‘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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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 www.spreadtheword.org.uk/winners-of-t...
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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? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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.
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...
Brian Turner dies
Farewell to a major New Zealand author.
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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...
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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.
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 www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5662
Romantic Poets in the Wild #7: Linda Collins – BARS Blog
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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. www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/u...
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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
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...
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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...
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The end of the world: a debut collection on 'the fragility of the earth under our feet '.
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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...
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...
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Digesting the news that between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, with only ~1280 breeding individuals between the early and middle Pleistocene. A tiny amount for the continuity of the species, yes — but a very respectable readership for any poets among them.
Delighted that my essay on Denise Riley's trauma poetics has been accepted by the peer-reviewed Poetry as Therapy journal in the US. The essay is based on my MA dissertation at UEA. #poetry #UEA #traumawriting
Changing the narrative on suicide - that's the theme of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept 10 and I'm on a panel discussing this. It's a free event in Dunedin with amazing speakers including Matthew Kiore and writer Jesse Bering. #teaorerekura #suicideprevention #jessebering
This Dunedin event for NZ National Poetry Day on Aug 23 - Friday! - is going to be amazing. I'm reading a poem written in collaboration with Brenda Finlayson. Come for the line breaks, stay for the sheer enjambment. Stanza room only! (that's enough puns). #poetry
x.com/pjkmorris/st... A nice surprise to have my review quoted in this.
Paula Morris on X: "'I assumed no publisher would be interested': the four poetry finalists in this year's Ockham NZ Book Awards talk form, favourites and the power of poetry to subvert and provoke. @theockhams @nolotusblossom @GiramondoBooks @OtagoUniPress @thwupbooks https://t.co/YFXHaqK3nq" / X
'I assumed no publisher would be interested': the four poetry finalists in this year's Ockham NZ Book Awards talk form, favourites and the power of poetry to subvert and provoke. @theockhams @nolotusblossom @GiramondoBooks @OtagoUniPress @thwupbooks https://t.co/YFXHaqK3nq
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