I kōrero with Iona Winter, the Elixir and Star publisher and writer about being here and there as a diasporic writer.

Photo: Alex Reece Abbott

My conversation with author Iona Winter about Iona’s Elixir & Star 2023 Grief Almanac – a liminal gathering, grief, suicide bereavement and living with the absence of loved ones.

Image: ‘True’ by Kaye Winter, as appeared in a liminal gathering 2023. Photo Credit: Iona Winter.

Garden of Paradise, Redux about gardens ......

Iona Winter's groundbreaking new book, A Counter of Moons, starts a conversation none of us want to have.

cover art – credit: Kirstie McKinnon 

My story about New Year resolutions, Without Warning, Birds Fall

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An ekphratic flash fiction ...

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Photograph: Woman with a shovel and gum spear by Arthur James Northwood used with kind permission of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand.

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