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• Kirsty Gunn’s Pretty Ugly – A Short Story Collection Full of Human Emotion

  Would it be fair if I only reviewed one short story collection this month? Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is a darkly-fascinating, ominously-enticing read, and I felt myself being drawn into the writing with no desire to pull back. Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn is the inaugural title in a new series of short story…

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  June 27, 2025

  NZ Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• My January 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: disbelief. 2025 feels like it has been a series of months: Holiday break, then moving back into work mode, throw in a ten-day indoor sentencing for the cat and suddenly three different months have happened in the span of 31 days. I have managed to get a fair number of books read in…

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  January 31, 2025

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• Delicious Poetry in Joy Sullivan’s Instructions For Travelling West

  Joy Sullivan is a mastermind of poetry and imagery, able to weave motifs and senses into the lyrical verses and couplets she writes. Instructions For Traveling West is a brilliant poetry collection full of emotion and character and it has made me reconsider my stance on poetry. First, you must realise you’re homesick for all…

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  January 8, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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