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they/them 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

yes thanks my writing is going well and is normal i am not writing poem after poem about Phar Lap, champion racehorse

[Starling @starlingmag]

“In the hot pink night I am a runaway bride hitching
up many skirts to knock on your door

The sky is only bats no stars
 and the compasses have all been polarised”

- Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), ‘Nocturne with Stranger’

[Sweet Mammalian @SweetMammalian]

IT LIVES! The eleventh issue of Sweet Mammalian will be officially unleashed this Aotearoa-evening with @verbwellington & is live online now

Ft. @evansquilliams @ghastlily @alex_tretbar @thetearooms @ghostb1rd @leahjdodd @leahjdodd @zephyrzhangz & more

https://t.co/TWqJkvzGp2

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

new poem Cold Erotica up on @TheSpinoffTV today!! big pash https://t.co/1VrBW1o5JX

[Starling @starlingmag]

"A baby in the arms of a small child
running backwards across a street,
which is having debris lifted from it
as if it were thousands of spores
brushed up into streaming light"

- Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), 'Reverse Tragedy' (after Matt Rasmussen / for a free Palestine)

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@oliviaalley18 🖤🖤 thank you sweet olive!

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

thank you starling always! recording this in australia made me hear my own accent for the first time and now i understand why so many people here find me incomprehensible

[Starling @starlingmag]

Happy @NZPoetryDay! We're kicking off our last day of online readings from Issue 18 with the great Loretta Riach (@ghostb1rd), reading their new poem 'A Dinosaur as King of the Shepherds', one of their four poems that open our new issue:

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@gorsebloom we did not export flight of the conchords to america just to receive this kind of injustice

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@gorsebloom yes! attempting to mock australians just makes them think i’ve finally learnt how to enunciate :/

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@frrcooke starling day makes the tasman feel less vast!! 🐦🖤🖤

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

wow i really miss aotearoa but a new issue of starling can make everything better

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@SianLHarris thank you, too kind!

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

FOUR new poems out today, tumeke starling!! 🖤🖤🖤

[Starling @starlingmag]

Tragedy and survival, family lines and liberation: Starling Issue 18 is here, with the best new poetry and prose from New Zealand writers under 25 at https://t.co/KfuBEytGeN.

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@HeraLindsayBird @starlingmag Hera! Thank you 🖤

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

my body is in australia but my mind is at whammy bar

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

doing important work for trans-tasman relations by making my coworkers at the deli endure my 12-hour-long playlist of nz music

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@eamonnmarra my ESTEEMED colleague! 🖤

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

Good Books was such a big part of my life in Wellington, and working for an employer who constantly put their workers first over and over again is one of the biggest gifts I’ve ever received. We had so much fun! Independent bookstores forever and ever and ever

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@gorsebloom @SweetMammalian ty for giving it a place to spill!! 🛢🎀

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

@pastelprole :) thank you legend

[loretta @ghostb1rd]

new poem up on The Spinoff now! thanks Chris 🎷🎷

[Chris Tse @chrisjtse]

“The sound that emerged was not full or rich,
my lips splintered,
my tongue heavy…”

‘Solo for Alto Saxophone’ by Loretta Riach

https://t.co/jXQx99klm1