Diane BrownDiane Brown

Diane Brown was born in 1951 in Auckland, but ran away to Dunedin in 2000 to live with Philip Temple. She runs an online and face to face school, Creative Writing Dunedin. Her latest book, Taking My Mother To The Opera, Otago University Press (2015) is a poetic family memoir.

The Friday Poem: ‘Every day my name is out there’ by Diane Brown

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Political verse by Dunedin writer Diane Brown.   Every day my name is out there Some say it’s pointless, we have no say but every day they land in my inbox or on Facebook, petitions asking for my name: on state housing, refugees, the TPPA, the writers imprisoned for telling the truth, the stoning of … Read more