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Category: Artists
Sophie Procter
I have been writing and making up stories since as far back as I can remember. I work full time as a barista and bar manager at a cafe on Karangahape Rd, although really it’s more of an institution. There I observe the wonderful cast of Krd characters and gather inspiration for both my poetry and short fiction. I take part in the Poetry Live open mic nights most Tuesdays at the Thirsty Dog (also on Krd) and have been a featured reader there during their Woman’s Night event in 2014. I am also an artist and have a BA in Art History from Auckland University.
Sophie’s poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Luz Saviñón
Tulia Gonzalez-Flores
I am Tulia Gonzalez, 28 years old. I am a nurse specialized in medical research and public health. I’ve lived in the United States, Europe, and currently in New Zealand. I arrived in this country sailing a small yacht (31ft) from the cost of Mexico trough the pacific islands and finally arriving here last year. I started writing in high school. In university I was the editor of the newspaper. I started a Blog in 2014 about my travels and poems in Spanish. I also started an online consultancy of health research and statistics applied to social science.
Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Zackhie Bara-Comolli
Writing is not my paid profession, but a pastime I very much enjoy. I primarily write songs, stories and poetry, including scriptwriting, also contributing researched and written material to a published writer. Singing, playing music and art are some other activities I pursue. In future, my creative goals are to turn my writing and other creative projects, into a profession. My creative ideas are inspired by many different areas of life, but are mainly about intense experiences, the extremes that can arise without much warning and have a lasting effect on us, as well as cycles, physical and mental process of how a person might perceive and handle this.
Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Sarah Penwarden
I was born in Taranaki and currently live in Auckland. I worked as a counsellor for ten years and I am now a counsellor educator. I have had poems published in Poetry New Zealand, Meniscus (AUS), poems and short stories published in Takahe magazine, and a short story broadcast on Radio New Zealand. I also write short stories and poetry for children and have had both forms published in The School Journal.
Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Jon Little
A Tennessee native with a background in hip hop, anthropology and creative writing, I currently live in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. When not working for the rather Orwellian named Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, I write poetry. With my musical background, I consider each poem as a work to be read silently, as well as performed aloud. His poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Luke Sole
Luke is a 28-year-old Christchurch-based freelance writer and musician with an interest in New Zealand’s political landscape and countercultures. In his spare time he enjoys cycling, tramping and woodworking. Luke has a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours in Political Science from Canterbury University. He is currently working on a collection of unpublished short stories and poems. His poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Bradley Nielsen
Madison O’Dwyer
Madison is nineteen, and has lived in almost all corners of Auckland. She works in dentistry by day, but moonlights as a writer and visual artist. She is a keen observer of people, with a penchant for stepping into other people’s shoes and taking a walk. Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Janean Cherkun
Janean grew up in South Auckland. She married and had her two children in Canterbury, after which the whole family landed in Dunedin five years ago. Janean was named Runner Up in the TravCom: New Travel Writer of the Year category in 2014. She is a frequent attendee at Creative Writing Dunedin’s Saturday workshops and gratefully acknowledges the support of tutor, Diane Brown. Janean’s poetry is usually inspired by real life events and by the work of her favourite artists, Michelle Evans and Victoria McIntosh. She enjoys walking, yoga, and cooking spicy food. Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Anastasia Cook
I am twenty one years of age and Australian born. I’ve lived in Perth for most of my life but have recently moved to wellington to live with my father who was born here. I first began writing poetry as a young teenager and have become more passionate about writing it as i have gotten older. The theme of this competition really captured my interest and the attached poem really resonated with me when i wrote it, it is entitled Glittering Towers.
Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Peter Le Baige
I returned to Aotearoa in 2012 after an absence of over 20 years and am living an hour’s walk from my childhood home. Our family lived 5 minutes’ walk from the sea, as my Dad was fond of saying. The water, the tides, the light on water are still everywhere, through whatever I write. It seeps through me to this day, like a tide under the night jetty. No matter how far I have left this sea astern, it has always come back to me in dream or memory.
Peter’s poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Jane Williams
Jane is an Australian poet and writer. She has been published widely since the early 1990s. Passionate about travel, she has read her poems at venues in Ireland, England, Canada, Malaysia, Czech Republic and the US. Her most recent book is Days Like These – new and selected poems. She lives in Tasmania with her partner Ralph Wessman. Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
www.janewilliams.wordpress.com
Beverly Martens
After a successful career in PR and marketing communications, Beverly Martens is now concentrating on her own creative writing. To this end, she moved from Wellington to Dunedin in 2006 to enroll in Diane Brown’s writing courses and writes short stories and poems between grappling with her first novel. Beverly has had poems published in both the Otago Daily Times and a ‘parenting’ anthology (despite not having children) unless, of course, you count her delightful, sprightly 14-year old terrier, Curly. Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Dorothy Howie
I am a researcher on the teaching of thinking in the School of Psychology, at the University of Auckland. I have been publishing poetry over the last 7 years, with poems appearing in a number of New Zealand journals, including Poetry New Zealand. My first book of poetry, called ‘Twin Threads’ was launched this January, 2015.
Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Geum Hye Kim
Jeni Curtis
Jeni is a teacher and writer from Christchurch, New Zealand. She has a keen interest in Victorian literature and history. She is a member of the Christchurch branch of the International Dickens Fellowship, and editor of their magazine, Dickens Down Under. She has published poems, short prose pieces and short stories in various publications including the Christchurch Press, Takehe, JAAM, the Quick Brown Dog, NZPS anthology 2014, and 4th Floor. She is secretary of the Christchurch Poets’ Collective. Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Janet Newman
Janet lives in Koputaroa in Horowhenua and is a Master of Creative Writing student at Massey University. Her poems have been published in a fine line, bravado, brief, Poetry NZ, snorkel, takahe and New Zealand Poetry Society anthologies. Her essay “Listening Harder: Reticulating Poetic Tradition in Michele Leggott’s ‘Blue Irises'” is included in the 2015 issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature. Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
E Wen Wong
My name is E Wen Wong and I am a twelve year old student of Cobham Intermediate in Christchurch. I am very passionate about writing, in particular poetry. I like writing to let my thoughts scrawl across the paper and I think that what you write should reflect what you think or believe. My biggest poetry accomplishments to date include being published numerous times in NZ Poetry Box, being included in the 2014 and 2015 Rattle Young Poets Anthologies and two poems being published in the Otago Daily Times Extra! Publication. In the future, I want to be a meteorologist. Poem published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Tracey Peterson
I am a student of the the Hagley Writers’ Institute, passionate about poetry having read, written and performed it from a young age and in my adult years taught it to children aged from 5 to 16 years.
I am a graduate of Canterbury University having studied English, Linguistics and Education, and am currently working on what I hope will be my first publishable collection of poetry.
For me there is nothing quite like the satisfaction that comes from reading a brilliant poem or better still composing one! I dream of one day writing in Paris.
Poem published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Jennifer Ayoub

Jennifer Ayoub
Suman Nath

Suman Nath
Anna

Anna
I love music. I also like writing poems.
Mitchell Radcliffe
My name is Mitchell Radcliffe and I am fourteen years old. I go to school at St Andrew’s College in Christchurch and am currently a year 9. I love playing sport and I am just starting to enjoy writing with my english teacher being a real inspiration to me.
Debbie Williams
I have been writing poems for a number of years, and mainly enjoy humorous verse. This started when the new intake of Doctors did their time in Obstetrics.
Six weeks in this environment led to many funny poems which they and the staff enjoyed.
I have won a few competitions and been published in magazines, newspaper, radio, website, library, church notices, published also in two Australian and two NZ anthologies.
I have been widowed for five years and our two children do not live in Dunedin so this pastime gives me much pleasure.
Jai Bartlett

Jai Bartlett
with my parents, my sister and baby brother. I love to write and
illustrate. I would like the world to be a place of peace.
Simi Desor

Simi Desor
Anila

Anila
I am a passionate dreamer!!
Kayleigh Jepson

Kayleigh Jepson
Wayne Reid

Wayne Reid
I have travelled and lived in other countries. I have learned to understand and respect all people, living things. I now work in health advocacy/education with migrants and those from refugee backgrounds. I love to write
Sophie Dixon

Sophie Dixon
Nathan Joe

Nathan Joe
School.
Karen Rees

Karen Rees
Jack Wood

Jack Wood
Elizabeth Ashby

Elizabeth Ashby
Positionality, intertwined biology, fall back on art, painted hand, brush strokes on face, caress
She is
Imagined ideologically, limited selfy except in costume, mask face, academic modeled boredom
She is
Bad track record, late hand-ins, performing poetry instead of writing essay tomorrow due.
She is otherwise occupied with completing a BA hons in Anthropology at the University of Canterbury while pursuing various art projects involving painting on body in order to make poetry.
Arianna Sikorski

Arianna Sikorski
Naomi Martin
Naomi is a poet and an IT engineer with a wild idea to change career and dedicate her life to the pursuit of creativity. She lives in Perth WA.
Rebecca Ronald

Rebecca Ronald
I’m not a poet, just someone who likes to scribble. Words are fun!
I seek peace but don’t know the answers.
Charlotte Cotton
I am a nine year old student in year 5 at Waimairi School in Christchurch.
Bianca Marshall
I am a nine year old, year 5 student at Waimairi School in Christchurch
Cameron Hewitt
I am a 10 year old student in year 6 at Waimairi School in Christchurch.
Karsia Mora
9 years old poet student at Waimairi School.
Jayme Lewington Lovell

Jayme lewington lovell
Ella Duncan

Ella Duncan
Intensely passionate, and grumpy.
From a beautiful whanau.
For her mother Lynda, sister Kia Maia, and grandmother Margy.
Who loves and appreciates human rights, equality, and artmaking.
Who fears hatred from the people she loves, apathy from those she doesn’t, and becoming a monster without realising it.
Who is GREAT, although that fact can be debated.
Who wants to experience and leave the world a bit better.
Born in Nelson, living in Christchurch.
Duncan.
For Pubudu, For Tusiata, For Kim, For Maia, For all those not said,
you are a part of my heart.
Katie Horton
6 years old poet from New Zaland.
The Moon Turned to Ice
The moon turned to Ice
And it hummed a gentle
Song. It let out
Oxygen, into the nature.
Grace

Grace
Paige Bowman
Hi my name is Paige Bowman and I am ten years old. I participate in a number of activities including gymnastics, swimming, art and tennis. I am also on my school council. I am in year six at Paparoa Street School and I have recently taken an interest in writing. I have started writing a story that I’m hoping will be published once it is finished. I also enjoy writing poetry.
Andrew Nicholls

Andrew Nicholls
Molly Reid
Name: Molly Reid
Age: 10
School: Waimairi
Hobbies/Intrests: Singing, kapa Haka, Music,
School, Poetry Writing, Drama, Netball.
For my friendships poem I was inspired because they would always support me when I needed help. I knew that my friends they were willing to help me.
I also was inspired with my family poem because recently my uncle has been visiting the hospital regularly because he has cancer and I want to make my poem express emotions that I feel when he is there.
I was inspired with my peace poem by seeing that the world needs peace and I want to help to do it.
Pallavi Banerjee

Pallavi Banerjee
Ana R

Ana R
Amy Chan
Captivated by verse, words and the stories that these create, I am a young exploratory writer – seeking to experiment with different mediums, styles and topics. I believe we are only people through people; and words are the beginning to being able to reach out and fill those degrees of separation between each and everyone of us.
Vaughan Rapatahana

Vaughan Rapatahana
Kia ora mo tenei kowhiringa (Thank you for this opportunity.)
Tin Shui Wai
Hong Kong
&
Santo Tomas
Philippines
&
Makaraka
Aotearoa-New Zealand
Published 2014: Expand Your Mind with Poetry Books One and Two (Essential Resources, Aotearoa-New Zealand) http://www.essentialresources.co.nz/Products.aspxSubjectID=&SeriesID=SER5808&NewReleases=True&Featured=False
OutLoud Too – an anthology of Hong Kong poets (mccm creations, Hong Kong)
http://www.mccmcreations.com/books/custom%20&%20culture/outloud-too/main.htm
Forthcoming 2014: Atonement (ASM/Flying Islands, Macau) – a new collection of poems.
Forthcoming 2015: Why English? Confronting the Hydra (Multilingual Matters, U.K.) – a follow up to English Language as Hydra, 2012.
Kerry Dalton

Kerry Dalton
Kerrin P. Sharpe

Kerrin P. Sharpe
Kerrin P. Sharpe is a teacher of creative writing. Her first anthology “three days in a wishing well” was published in 2012 by VUP. Her second anthology “there’s a medical name for this” will be published by VUP in August 2014. She was also an oxford poet 2013 (Carcanet UK). Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Carolyn M. Horton
56 years of age and born and bred in Southland on a farm.
Georgina Scott

Georgina Scott
Angela Brett

Angela Brett
Vivien Lei

Vivien Lei
Kendra Van de Geest

Kendra Van de Geest
Ayreton Macdonald
I am a year 9 student at St Andrews College in Christchurch and I enjoy creative writing and television and film. In my spare time i like going to the movies and playing Badminton.
Henrietta Osborne
Age:10
School: Waimairi
Hobbies/interests: Dancing,Cooking,Poetry writing,drama, reading and netball
feijoa
I was inspired by the memory’s of happy times with my family and friends being outdoors. I was also inspired by James k Baxter
here is some advice
the inspiration for my second poem was talking to my mum about what peace meant to me and how I could help other people be happy too.
Elsbeth Hill

Elsbeth Hill
I explore identity exposing and celebrating the extra in the ordinary.
Contemporary printmakers are innovative and inventive, embracing new media and trans disciplinary practice. Without this verve the extinction of printmaking is inevitable, this is the matrix and tradition I am building my work on.
I work at Northland Region Corrections Facility supporting prisoners in distance education, facilitating art, creative writing and personal development courses. I am a mother, wife and immigrant from the United Kingdom born to Welsh Parents.
David Chang

David Chang
Mark A. Murphy

Mark A. Murphy
Rajnandini Roychoudhury
Student of English Honours at Women’s Christian College. A short story published in the college magazine, presented a paper on the topic ‘Admixture of Revolutionary Idealism and Optimism in Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound”‘ at Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College.
The poem has been penned down by me in order to bring out a message to the posterity about the increasing violences in recent times..especially the violences meted out towards women..it is only to influence people for a peaceful and better society..
William Sidnam

William Sidnam
Maya Field
As a writer, one of the best things to write is poetry. There are so many types of poetry, happy, sad, meaningful, mysterious, etc . I am an eleven year old girl and I live in Christchurch, New Zealand. I like to do karate and read in my spare time. I like sport and can can whip up a great story or poem. Hopefully you like my poems.
Jack Prebble

Jack Prebble
Artemezia Kabinovsky

Artemezia Kabinovsky
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Born in Hollywood, California. Studied in the US and UK. Writer and visual artist living in Los Angeles.
Ruby Wilson

Ruby Wilson
I love writing poetry and putting it on my blog Industrial Arts of The Mind. I also like cooking, science, dancing and I.T. I like writing poetry because I find that I can express what I want to say better and make what I want to say have more emphasis. I had cancer when I was little and I think this may have affected how I look at things.
Luke Otley

Luke Otley
Jenny Clay
Jenny Clay works in a library and retreats to write in the Waitakere bush. Her poems have been published in Takahe, New Zealand Poetry Sociaty anthologies, LiveLines, Poetry New Zealand 47, in a book of poetry for shildren, Poetry Pudding, and on the ezines Blackmail press, Fib Review, Southern Ocean Review, and Shot Glass Press.
In 2012 she was runner up in the IWW Kathleen Ireland Poetry Competition. She has been involved in peace organisations, and the environment is one of the concerns within her works
John Kaniecki
I write poetry for the enjoyment of the art. I believe that a poet must first establish that they can write in rhyme and rhythm and only then move to the more advanced free verse. I have been published by Struggle Magazine, The Blue Collar Review, Burning Books, Jerry Jazz, IWW Newspaper, Protest Poems, Flute, Black Magnolia, Left Curve, She Mom, Whisper, Vox Poetica and others. Though political or moral in nature I write in various forms.
I have a poetry book entitled “Murmurings of a Mad Man” due out in September.
I have been married over eight years to my wife Sylvia. I am a member of the Church of Christ at Chancellor Avenue where I sometimes preach and work on out reach.
I also recently won the Joe Hill Poetry Labor Prize where I read my poem Tea With Joe Hill, in front of a crowd of over six hundred people in Banning Park, Los Angeles.
I currently serve as secretary for Rhyming Poets International and I am a member of the Revolutionary Poet’s Brigade.
Nehemiah Isamotu

Nehemiah Isamotu
Annabel Hurton

Annabel Hurton
Gail Ingram

Gail Ingram
Ben Oxley
I live in Christchurch and go to St Andrews Collage. i like dogs and have two of them.
Madhumitha Murali
I am Madhumitha Murali,
an MBA Finance graduate, and hobby around writing poems and essays. My writing strengths are Creative writing and Business – Finance research writing.
Lucy Murray

Lucy Murray
I live in Christchurch with my mum and dad and big sister Kate and black Labrador “Pip”
I like playing sports. In summer I play cricket for school and St Albans cricket club. In the winter I play hockey for both school and HSOB Burnside.
It is my last year at Paparoa Street Primary School, where I am a school councillor, IT geek. I’m part of the gifted and talented reading and writing programme and play a musical instrument (guitar).
Meike van Roij
I am a 13 year old girl who lives in New Zealand an loves to write!
Alex Wilson
My name is Alex. I am a student at Fendalton Primary School and have just turned 9 years old although I wrote these poems when I was 8.
Gregory Brimblecombe

Gregory Brimblecombe
Sreeraj Thulaseedharan

Sreeraj Thulaseedharan
Rayne Peng

Rayne Peng
Hannah Dickson

Hannah Dickson
My achievements: 2nd place in the national Jump Jam competition, 2nd in cross country, 2nd in sprints, 1st in south island Jump Jam, 2nd in netball.
Szymon Dorabialski

Szymon Dorabialski
He has been published in various publications including “T.O.E magazine”, “Thirteen: new writers” and “The Journal of Inter-dimensional Poetry” .
He organizes an event for poetry/performance called “This is not a Pipe open mic”.
Erin Heffernan
Lover of words.
Actress.
Writer.
Playwright.
Now using words to help.
Counsellor.
Poetzee
Poetzee is…..A visual poet fighting for a lyrical state
Poetry gives me artistic space away from the 9-5 machine we call life, it allows me to be completely honest and open about personal topics I feel strongly about. I like to think of poetry as an open book, which I can just keep adding to.
My biggest influences are my fears and anxieties, I hope in a short poem I can open up a dialog for others to listen to, to question or to start appreciating what some of us have.
Jan Hutchison

Jan Hutchison
collections of poetry:- The Long Sleep is Over; Days among Trees: The Happiness of Rain.
Her poems are represented in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies and in the forthcoming Essential New Zealand Poems.
collections of poetry: – The Long Sleep is Over; Days among Trees: The Happiness of Rain.
Hannah Martin
Hi. I’m 15. I live in Huntington, Beach California. I used to live in Hastings, Hawks Bay. My grandparents still live there with my sister. I’m just trying to get my writing out into the world. Hope you enjoy them.
Jamie Trower

Jamie Trower
Joanne Kingston

Joanne Kingston
appeared on the websites ‘Village Voice’ (for Anzac also) called ‘The Parade’ and ‘Musical Craziness’ debuted on the ‘Rip it Up’ website in early May.
Susan Howard

Susan Howard
Veronica Ingram
24 years old poet from Brixham, Devon, UK
Ronwyn A. Allen

Ronwyn Allen
Ruth Barnard

Ruth Barnard
I have always loved to write and find that my studies of contemporary issues inspire much of my creative writing. I am a writer for the New Zealand youth magazine; Tearaway and aim to write for various publications in the future that help to provoke thought about important social and environmental topics.
Lawal Jimoh
Lawal Jimoh lives in Lagos where he rises every day at dawn to write and to think of new things on glimmer of twilight before goose flies away from suitcase. His poems have until now remained unshared and undiscovered, except by his family and close friends who are forced to listen to every word he writes, and later feel so passionate to ask for next choice of one word at a time. He is currently working on his first collection of poetry and other writings which he hopes to publish.
Bryn Walker
I am 9 years old and live in Belmont Auckland. I enjoy playing sports, surfing, reading and writing. I wrote this poem at school because we were learning about Anzac day. I really liked doing it and so I spent lots of my time making it better. I wrote it all by myself without any help and I am very proud of my poem.
Where the Poppies Grow
Early morning, blue sky,
soldiers waiting for their turn to die.
They know it will happen,
it always does,
it’s the waiting that really hurts us!
Barbed wire everywhere,
men dying in mid air!
Shouts of sorrow,
screams of fear
and the spitting of bullets everywhere!
Countries ruined,
people dead,
all that is what I’ve read!
We run out into no man’s land
bayonets ready and heroic as!
Then suddenly men around me start to fall
as the machine guns open fire!
They lie there peacefully where the poppies grow!
Few come back,
but not as before,
their lives have been ruined from the war!
Blood is splattered down on the floor,
like water paint!
But instead of fun it causes pain!
Men have died but poppies won’t,
so we’ll remember them to remember those who have died in the war,
Where the poppies grow!
Margaret Atkinson

Margaret Atkinson
Bernadette Perez

Bernadette Perez
Writing since a teen of Love, heartache , life struggles .
Now Wife, Mother,Grandmother join her in her journey of life transposed into words.
In 1990 received Silver Poet Award from World of Poetry.
Published in The Wishing Well; Musings in 2010. Small Canyons Anthology in 2013
Monika John
Poems by Monika John, a writer, attorney and world traveler, living in Washington State. Her writings have appeared in various journals and magazines in the USA and UK: most recently Buddhist Poetry Review, Light of Consciousness Magazine, Urthona UK, Penwood Review, Presence International Magazine, Anthology on Tagore, UK, Fungi and Quiet Shorts Magazine, Sathya Sai Magazine, Scheherazade’s Bequest, poetry forthcoming in The Wayfarer and Lalitamba.
Joane Sye
Joane Sye is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She emigrated to NZ in 1971 and settled in Hastings in Hawkes Bay where she has remained. She has three adult children, two of whom also reside in Hawkes Bay. The lovely climate and abundant fruit and easy lifestyle are big attractions. Joan attends the Hawke’s bay Live poets and enjoyes listening to her fellow poets and presenting her own work.
Joan likens her poetry to a living diary of life where moods and emotions can be expresses and shared with family and friends for mutual benefit. Communication is essential.
Rosa Garcia Knight

Rosa Garcia Knight
Anne Hollier Ruddy

Anne Hollier Ruddy
Alexandra Andrews
I am a year thirteen pupil at Bethlehem College, and a keen student in English, Drama, and Classical Studies.
Anne Chan Lai Ping Ho
I started writing poetry when I had my breakdown here in Auckland. I wrote heaps of them. They were my ventilation of emotions, feelings; but I don’t think I wrote any good ones until I went to poetry class at Toi Ora. There I have learnt a lot and there have been improvements. I have never joined any competition before for poetry writing and this opportunity will measure my capability. As I grow my poems acquire strength, or at least so I think. I publish a lot of my poetry on my blog and writing poetry is part of me.
MaryRose Doull
I have been writing poems for peace, ever since I began writing poetry.
One of my first poems published in Live Lines 111 was The Programme Seller. Subsequentaly I was runner up in 2010 in the New Zealand Poetry Society;s Annual intentational competiton.
I am a keen supporter of the Centrefor Peace and Conflict studies based in Dunedin at Otago Univeristy. I often write about multicultural themes and non verbal communication. I think these are important for building peaceful relationships.
Rahul Motipalle

Rahul Motipalle
I am Rahul Motipalle. I am studying in Class 11. I am really interested in poetry.
Carol Burrows

Carol Burrows
My husband passed away 12 months ago and I have recently been putting pen to paper again.
Dr. Rashmi Chandran

Rashmi Chandran
Website:http://rashmichandran.wordpress.com/; Blog:http://drrashminaturallife.blogspot.in/; Facebook Page:http://www.facebook.com/doctorrashmichandran
Vilja Mjelva
I am presently here on earth, planning to stay for a while, to play, learn and share.
Who I am I do not know as of yet, so I’ll skip that part.
I currently spend my time nurturing newbies, practicing my skills of staying present in the moment and engaging with life as it is, as well as practicing the allowing of the sacred art of enjoying myself.
Lyllie Colway
I’m 17 years old, living in New Zealand and desperately interested in human nature and personal turmoil that is beneath the surface of each person. I’m just starting out and hopefully everything can be more real.
Kathrine Anne M. Maranda
Hi. I’m Kathrine Anne M. Maranda, 18, and a third year college student in Polytechnic University of the Philippines taking up Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication.
I try to write poems during my spare time. I started writing serious literary works when I was fourteen and had realize that I was actually enjoying it and might continue doing it for the rest of my life. Also, it would be great if I can gain more knowledge about literature as I am very optimistic in sharing to everyone how we can achieve peace through writing as one form of communication.
Keith Nunes
Keith (Tauranga, New Zealand) was a newspaper sub-editor for more than 20 years but he now writes to stay sane. He’s been published around NZ (Landfall, Takahe, Trout, brief, Poetry NZ, Catalyst) and increasingly in the UK and US, was highly commended in the 2014 NZ Poetry Society international poetry competition and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. He lives with artist Talulah Belle and a coterie of nutters. His poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Lira Pilpil – Borja
I am a working mother. Part time musician and a full time office worker in an auditing firm. I am also a song writer and a blogger who always write whatever emotion I have.
Sharon Lopez
Sharon R. Rogers was born in Sacramento, California. She grew up in a rural area outside Sacramento with her parents, two sisters, and two brothers along with several horses, cows, chickens, cats, hamsters, rats, and the family dog. Sharon began writing poetry, short stories, and songs when she was around eleven years old. She has always been adventurous and loved traveling and learning new things. Sharon enjoyed teaching at the elementary school level for several years before becoming disabled after a spinal cord injury. Although mostly homebound now, she still loves to write and uses a writing project as therapy.
Carl Pickens
Self employed landscape architect by day, occasional poet by night (and sometimes on the weekends). Poetry inspired, or should I say bought on by challenging life events, such as life, death, and the need to write something an hour before standing up in front of two hundred people. If something truly inspires me, it’s seeing positive change in others towards a more peaceful way of living. If I’ve in any way contributed to that, it can bring me to tears.
Prachi Agasti
am happy go lucky girl… who wants to do all sorts of crazy things… writing is everything.. passion dreams… it let me be myself…
Thomas Allen
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Thomas Allen is an American writer who moved to New Zealand. His favorite writers include Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, Jack Higgans, Robert Ludlum and Ray Bradbury.
Margaux Black
Im a 21 year old writer based in Auckland, struggling to find a job after my BA in English and Writing studies … the usual story.
I am passionate about language and write whenever inspiration strikes.
Vicky George
Of Māori Scottish and Irish ancestry, I feel the urge to write when I can no longer deal with the pain and suffering that is projected into my life by way of social network, media and at times having to live within a society that intrudes upon your soul whether you want it to or not. Now in my 50’s, I find I am drawn to the written word as a form of protest at the world and it’s cruelty and a personal release.
Murphy Wiperi
Somebody with a lot of time to think about the irony of the world.
Sharon Walsh-Grieve
I love writing to express ideas and to share experiences. I am also an avid reader and enjoy other people’s words.
Isaac James Te Reina Cleland
I am an emerging film writer/director, focused on bringing to light issues plaguing the world and blinding us from the true essence of life and what we are here to do and be. It is a sad, dark world we work in. But hidden in the thick of this is beauty worth living for, worth striving to achieve happiness for. My journey on while being on this earth is to educate and inspire. With intent to change and fulfil people with knowledge from the art of story telling.
Heather Ellis
Retired teacher/principal who has taught in many schools. Self-published a book recently: “Aunty Alice Teaches a Child to Read and Write Well. ” It reflects my deep interest in promoting language development in children.
Lives in Raglan, writes poetry, short stories children’s stories, and currently working on a biography. Also creates miniature gardens, looks after her dog and cat and four chooks and her large garden.
LePapillon
Truck mechanic – poet.
Caitlin Smart
I am a budding social entrepreneur and youth mental health advocate wanting to create a culture of friendship and co-operation in my lifetime. When my cats finally stop sleeping on my laptop, I enjoy playing around with spoken word. Aside from a few tidbits published when I was 7 (in Flamingo Bendalingo, an anthology by Paula Green) and 13 (in College Herald), I’m pretty new to the poetry scene.
Caine Webster
Born in Australia. Extensively traveled, collecting moments to write about.
George Dooley
I am 23 years old and from Timaru. Writing now for 5 years, thanks mainly to Oscar Wilde, Hunter S. Thompson and Michelle Denson.
James Shelton
Half a Century, two score & ten and almost all of those lived in New Zealand.
Now seems as good a time as any to start.
I’ve written a few songs, even recorded a couple, and this poem is a song I’ve never recorded, minus the tune.
As for the picture, when you tune out fear, you can experience the peace of tranquillity, and faith will help you let go of the rope.
Aziz Shahmansouri
I have been struggling for a long time to enrich my life through poems and stories, I have published some books in Persian .
My purpose to send these poems is to appreciate the projects that you are expanding it.
Edward Newborn
An actor by profession I have done just about everything else under the sun between jobs.
I have been writing short stories and poems, mainly for children, off and on for a few years. This has been primarily for my own pleasures so have never tried to get them published. From England originally I have been in New Zealand for the past 32 years. I am married with two grown up daughters. This is the first competition I have entered.
Beth Sowden
I moved from Australia to Marlborough five years ago, to be a part of my grandchildren’s everyday lives. A decision guided by The Lord, a true blessing. As well as being, “Nana Beth” to my three gorgeous granddaughters I am actively involved at St. Ninian”s Presbyterian Church, Secretary of Christian Women Communicating International (Blenheim), attend Tai Chi 3 times a week, walk everywhere – never drive, enjoy spending time with good friends, love to read and take pleasure in trying to live my life for The Lord.
My birth date is 1933.
Jonathan Entwistle
I’m a New Zealand born and breed. At 25 years old all I can hope for is to be creative and inspire someone. Creativity and inspiration are the two most powerful things I can offer.
Gregory Street
Of nineteen sixties vintage, and currently residing in the suburb of Kingston in Wellington, New Zealand. Work includes landscape gardening and various forms of social work. Life influences and interests include gamelan music, taichichuan and zen, and an incurable interest in every form of ‘spiritual stuff’, life&death, the universe and everything. Known to dwell in or near communities of artists and composers. Watching clouds and rocks and weeds and and plants and trees and looking after compost worms. Any spare time would be spent wandering aimlessly the mountain ranges of NZ. Educated at Victoria University, Wellington Polytechnic and STSI Solo Indonesia.
Anny da Silva Freitas
Peace is a word, concept, value that I ponder alot. I continue to look for ways to improve the way in which I live, relying on peace to guide my relationships with those I love and those I meet. I live with my civil union partner, whom reminds me to ‘be gentle’ and I hail from a portuguese family (Madeira) who values peace, in a louder way: -) I was born in Edinburgh, Scotland with a nation of people who have continued to look for ways to achieve peace and freedom. My name is Anny da Silva Freitas and I am proud tae be a Portuguese/Scot living in Wellington. I do not consider myself a poet, view poetry as literary adventure.
I sit here and ponder: really is that to much to ask?
Vanessa Rare
I worked in the film and television Industry for the past 17 years principally as an Actor and now as Screen Writer and Director. My Acting history is vast, from the very first role I played in the Feature Film Ruby & Rata, where I played Rata, to the TV role I played as TE HANA HUDSON on SHORTLAND STREET for a three year period and was also acknowledged as a finalist at the 2003 NZ TV Awards for my writing work on the Maori drama series – MATAKU which I was also a series Writer and Director on three of the episodes.
I have been writing poems since I was 13yrs old, and also lyrics for my songs from the same age. I have managed to keep a collection of my favorites. The website aucklandpoetry.com has published a few of my poems and I have recently been looking at ways of making a ‘Coffee Table’ book of my poems.
I am of NZ Maori descent and to the Ngati Porou, Ngati Pu, Tamaterā, and Ngapuhi.
Her poetry has been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.
Robynanne Milford
Robynanne Milford is a newly retired General Practitioner in Quakechurch!
She published Songcatcher in 2009 and in 2012 Grieve Hopefully.
She was placed second for “Tidal wave” in the Manuwatu International
Poetry for Performance.
She has been published in Landfall, Takahe, Poetry NZ The Press and Catalyst.
Wendy O’Shannessey
I am Wendy O’Shannessey.
After a lifetime of teaching across all ages, most recently preschoolers, I am about to ‘retire’, but hopefully, I will spend a lot of that time writing children’s stories and poems.
I have written in these two genres throughout my teaching career, but mostly for friends and family and classes I work with. At last I will have time to enjoy writing.
My husband of 43 years, and I are planning on relaxing more, too, with the aid of a campervan. Visiting far-away places in our beautiful country will be inspiring.
Joanne Counihan
I am a 28 year old barista living in Wellington. I also work as a painter and paint by commision. This is my first time entering a poetry competiton. This poem is about someone looking for an answer to their life’s questions and hearing God’s voice for the first time while searching for it.
Paul Craze
Hi I’m Paul Craze, I live in Wellington New Zealand, And am a actor, writer and Dad.I have been writing Poetry since I was a young teen, and love the medium.I hope you enjoy my writing.
Gerhard A. Fuerst
Born 1936 in Bayreuth, Germany.
Immigrant to the USA in 1958.
Retired secondary & university educator.
Passionate advocate and poet of communal, regional, national, and global peace.
Adjunct Professor of Social Science,
Western Michigan University, retired)
Sirjana Singh

Sirjana Singh
Poetry is my scape, it is my mirror and my address to the world.
Hello my name is Sirjana and I love words!
I see them as colours visually forming beautiful shapes in front of my eyes when I hear words,
They are particularly bright when I hear something that tugs the strings of my heart.
I therefore live in a colorful reality.
Public speaking is my second love,
I think I am a little vain
maybe a lot,
but more than attention what satisfies my heart
is to make a difference
to make art reach its truest purpose:
to find someone who can appreciate it more than I can.
Web:http://www.letstalkwords.com/
See her perform at POP-UP POETS event
Ali Jacs

Ali Jacks
An engaging and topical performer from Wellington, Ali Jacs is the 2012 New Zealand National Poetry Slam Champion. After getting involved in the spoken word community in the Canadian prairies, Ali returned home to NZ in 2010 and has since played an integral role in building up Wellington’s performance poetry community. In early 2012 she started up the monthly Poetry in Motion evening.
After winning 2nd place in the 2011 NZ National Poetry Slam, she went on to win the 2012 title, has since featured as a guest at the Australian National Poetry Slam and competed in the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Minneapolis.
Come and see her perfoming at Auckland 2 August at Iron Bar
Lia Eteuati

Lia Eteuati
Sally Strange-Love

Sally Strange-Love
Sally Strange-Love is an enigma – to herself.. Questions of Identity and Reality entangle themselves in blue within and outside of her personal space-time continuum.. Finding herself continuously led by some extreme mystic drive to actualisation, Sally Strange-Love skirts the boundaries between art and psychosis in an attempt to evade hypnotic enslavement to a prescribed consensus reality fraught with pathological normality, obsolete political hierarchy and ongoing systemic atrocity.
Sally Strange-Love wishes to inculcate everyone into her Cult of Possibility through concepts of life as poetry in perpetual motion, and poetry as magic in creative chaos. She is set to give Auckland City a taste of her mental state as she stands for the pop-up poetry party, where you too can play a part in The Poetic Revolution..
Involved in POP-UP POETS project and perfoming at http://printablereality.com/events/pop-up-poets/. More info at Facebook page
Roger Marshall

Roger Marshall
Glazier in Chch who enjoys poetry. I have no material for various reasons ..but will freelance ..
Freelanced poem. Reads downwards
P is our People approaching a Peek
O how this Outcome is Obviously bleak
E filled Emotions Erupting to seek
T To The Tacit elite
R we now Really a Ruinous Race
Y Yell at the Youth, yet yield at the pace
4 score or more-forefathers often war
P is a Plead to Pursue it no more
E is the Earth-Eternal and pure
A grade Attention to Aid with a cure
C Can recover as the Chaos Can Cease
E stands for Everyone Emitting peace.
Sumona Apsara Parii

Sumona Apsara Parii
Sumona Apsara Parii is a passionate writer and poetess. She is also an International Bharata Natyam (South-Indian Classical Dance) and Bollywood Dancer, as well Choreographer. In addition, she is a yogini (woman who practices yoga), dance and yoga teacher, as well Reiki III Practitioner/Healer.
She travels and performs Bharata Natyam and Bollywood Dance around the world. Sumona has used some of her poetry in her dance presentations–Where she selects harmonious music (that meld nicely with her poems), choreographs dance movements along with facial expressions (interpretive dance), and records readings of her poetry to create a blend of the magic of Poetry Dance, if you will.
In fact, Dance and Poetry are powerful, soulful ways she expresses her emotions of spiritual/devotional love, romantic/soul love, and maternal love; peacefulness, desire, passion and the wonder of beauty.
Her website is www.sumonadance.com