@assscroft.bsky.social - Nick Ascroft

24 Dec 2025 10:43 +0000

Correlation is not causality. But in this case … [contains quote post or other embedded content]

07 Dec 2025 06:49 +0000

‘Don’t bury my delusions of grandeur. They must continue to walk the earth, crowds pouring out of houses to cheer them on, saluted by sailors, curtsied at by wenches.’ https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/07/the-sunday-poem-by-nick-ascroft/

23 Oct 2025 08:51 +0000

We’ve come along way, though a hurricane. Please come to the reading/launchette at Scorpio Books on Friday (24 Oct), 6pm.

17 Oct 2025 21:19 +0000

‘I had thought of calling a section of my recent book “Get out of the Bike Lane, Pedestrian Scum” but someone might’ve taken me seriously. Not something I have to worry about much as it happens.’ https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/18-10-2025/i-didnt-write-any-poems-today-the-diary-of-a-modern-poet

16 Oct 2025 10:19 +0000

Christchurch! Next Friday, 24 October at 6pm at Scorpio Books. Wellington’s least annoying poets will read while you eat cheese. Ashleigh Young! Rebecca Hawkes! Stacey freaking Teague! Erik Kennedy?! Oh and me-sir. IT’S WHAT THEY WOULDA WANTED. Part of the nationwide celebration of my new book. 🍷

12 May 2025 02:08 +0000

Hoping to die before it comes out to give the marketers a humorous angle. 😃 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

12 Apr 2025 22:38 +0000

Minimums or minima? Synonyms or cinema?

31 Mar 2025 19:19 +0000

Thanks so much @modernletters.bsky.social for the opportunity. Very pleased New Zealand’s Bluff-most poet is next. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

31 Mar 2025 03:36 +0000

Great piece argh! Also have to thank Talia for putting me onto the Selina Tusitala Marsh poem and Carin Smeaton’s Hibiscus. Would send hotel room if I had one. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

31 Mar 2025 03:25 +0000

Also an honour not to have been selected by this middle-aged middle-of-the-roadster. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

31 Mar 2025 02:40 +0000

The thing I feared the most, judging Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems, was that people would feel they had to be nice to me all year. Luckily none did. https://www.bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz/2024-contents/editorial/

24 Jan 2025 09:03 +0000

Today, my least favourite word is ‘filigree’. That is all.

22 Dec 2024 03:51 +0000

New collection out next year. Nearly none of it is like this.

10 Dec 2024 19:39 +0000

My not entirely disingenuous best poetry books of 2024 https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/11/xmas-the-best-poetry-books-of-2024/

05 May 2024 07:37 +0000

2023 Riot Dad. Playlist at last of my 31 favourite ‘singles’ of last year. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/533GkmqgIzS4wEbQncqX7Y?si=4016b23aeea34d38

17 Apr 2024 20:43 +0000

‘There's shoot-outs and fist fights by night in the graveyard, multi-car pile-ups by day. And the freight train derailed and sank in the lake. Like a lobster it bubbles away.’ Grandaddy, ‘In the Town Where I’m Livin Now’ (2023). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RGOHIdWv5tk

01 Nov 2023 07:31 +0000

I may appear briefly if not cut. Was miked up and filmed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

01 Nov 2023 07:28 +0000

Friday next, we’re going to ruck Kaff. Get tix. https://www.verbwellington.nz/festival-events-2023/her-first-roast