The Imaginary Museum

Russell Haley (1934-2016) I've just received some rather bad news. Ian Wedde has sent out an open letter to friends of Russell &a...

[ Pollinating bee log ] I started this blog on the 14th of June, 2006, so this is The Imaginary Museum 's fifth anniversary. I'...

[Mark Young: Lunch Poems (Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2009)] Title sound familiar? It certainly should. I guess a lot of others grew up on tho...

[Seraphine Pick, "He"] I like typewriters because they are always turned on. – Will Christie Here's a thematic breakdown of th...

[Seraphine Pick, "Girl (with offered eyes)"] I want New Zealand to secede from Americanized world culture, in the same way that th...

[cover image: Sara Hughes / cover design: Christine Hansen] New NZ Poets in Performance Edited by Jack Ross. Poems selected by Jack Ross &am...

[Leonardo da Vinci, Analysis of a bird's wing - looks a little like a digital soundfile, doesn't it?] There's a new set of sound...

New Zealand Poets Read Their Work (1974). [Image: Pat Hanly] You all know the story. The hack who usually wrote each instalment of the week...

Come along with us, they say There are one or two questions We should like to ask you – Bill Manhire, “The Old Man’s Example” Here's a t...

Parts of the island are disappearing . – Geoff Cochrane, “Atlantis” Is it where you were born, where you were brought up, or where you live ...

[cover image: Richard Killeen / Cover design: Christine Hansen] Contemporary NZ Poets in Performance Edited by Jack Ross & Jan Kemp (Auc...

We all know Auckland traffic is appalling -- and it's getting worse. One of the main reasons for living and working on the Shore (at Ma...