Marcus Hobson

English-born writer now from New Zealand, 1st Class Master of Professional Writing @waikato Reviewer at NZBooklovers. Writer, poet, art lover, book collector.

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How to Paint a Nude is now shortlisted for the Ockhams. It’s a great novel- here’s my review @theockhams

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Artist Sam Mahon's fiction follows a Belarus refugee and a Christchurch artist meeting weekly to discuss art's purpose in earthquake-year Canterbury, only for disillusionment to drive them apart.

👇Find out more: https://t.co/aCPkchIRlO

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Fantastic to see this wonderful novel in the #theockhams long list today. @theockhams Here is my review at @NZBooklovers

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Artist Sam Mahon's fiction follows a Belarus refugee and a Christchurch artist meeting weekly to discuss art's purpose in earthquake-year Canterbury, only for disillusionment to drive them apart.

👇Find out more: https://t.co/aCPkchIRlO

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This is my pick of the best from the 68 books I read this year. 15 brilliant stories (including a collection of stories & 3 volumes of the same story I’ve counted as one). 4 translated works - all European. Two New Zealand and 1 Australian. #books #BookTwitter

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My review of Outliers - eight very interesting Antipodean tales.

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Harvard-based emeritus professor Michael Jackson returns with eight short stories which speak 'to my double life, shuttling between the southern and northern hemispheres, and blurring the line between fact and fiction.'

https://t.co/tgjEmAh5nF

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My review of “How to Paint a Nude”

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Artist Sam Mahon's fiction follows a Belarus refugee and a Christchurch artist meeting weekly to discuss art's purpose in earthquake-year Canterbury, only for disillusionment to drive them apart.

👇Find out more: https://t.co/aCPkchIRlO

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@TrueFactsStated @RockyinTX There you go - some of my Greene firsts.

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Excellent new poetry collection

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🌟Explore a hand-stitched seascape of words and images from the award-winning writer, Nina Mingya Powles.

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https://t.co/tpW4OlSbjo @AUPBooks

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This is criminal. Glyphosate is banned in some countries- it gives you cancer. And we want to allow it in all our bread, muesli and cereals. That will swamp the health system a few years down the track.

[The Listener @nzlistener]

New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) has proposed raising the maximum residue level for glyphosate in food by up to 100 times in wheat, oats and barley.
https://t.co/IZuChVpm1P

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Love this mid-year version of the best books of the year!

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Winter reading

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👀 Explore this thought-provoking and intimate blend of poetry and reflection:
https://t.co/DWZSVzi5ro @AUPBooks

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"We live in an era in which there is too much information but not enough knowledge, and even less wisdom. This excess of information makes us arrogant and then it makes us numb. We must change this ratio and focus more on knowledge and wisdom. For knowledge we need books, slow journalism, podcasts, in-depth analyses and cultural events. And for wisdom, among other things, we need the art of storytelling. We need the long form."
Elif Shafak

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This is exactly what is going on in New Zealand where the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill will stop us from being able to introduce good laws which might harm big co profits.

When Corporations Sue States: The Exploitation Trap https://t.co/GpAuoq3vTx via @YouTube

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This prototype doesn’t look anywhere near as good as ⁦@CathChidgey⁩ ‘s ‘The Book of Guilt’

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⁦@CathChidgey⁩ congratulations, this is absolutely brilliant. Loved every moment. Not sure Margate will ever recover its reputation!

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@AnneLouiseAvery I don’t have a fox of good wishes to send you, we have no foxes in New Zealand, so here is Theo in the washing basket. Your words brought tears to my eyes, but also hope. Trust those fine people around you, doctors and nurses, who will do everything they can.

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Sometimes to placement of two pictures next to each other on X seems to make a better story… #nzpolitics

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Always varied and always enjoyable. My review of the latest volume of AUP New Poets.

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Explore the latest local poetry collection and discover new poets

https://t.co/kiNshKpAWX @AUPBooks

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Bloody hell, that takes your breath away…

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Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well.

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@Medievalists Wow, “nearly 40 per cent of the Viking remains she looked at showed evidence of a violent death”, plus more access to iron and so more weapons. Fascinating.

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@Architectolder Here’s a wonderful doorway from Stockholm’s old city - Gamla Stan.