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Lily HollowayLily Holloway

Lily Holloway is a queer postgraduate English student who likes collecting Teletubbies paraphernalia. She recently won highly commended for the Caselberg International Poetry Prize and was the 2020 recipient of the Shimon Weinroth Prize in Poetry, the Kendrick Smithyman Scholarship for Poetry, and second place in the Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition. You can find a full list of her published and forthcoming work at lilyholloway.co.nz/cv.

The Friday Poem: Sentries by Lily Holloway

30 October 2020 by Lily Holloway
discarded couch

A new poem from Auckland poet Lily Holloway. Sentries I’m frantically chasing my mother who weaves in and out of the aisles throwing down craft supplies. I trip over scissors and quick unpicks not seeing her face, only clean ponytail and collar poking out over plum cardigan. We run between shelves of antique vases but … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags Lily Holloway, New Zealand Literature, The Friday Poem

The Friday Poem: ‘modernity to globalisation’ by Lily Holloway

18 October 2019 by Lily Holloway

A new poem by Auckland poet Lily Holloway. modernity to globalisation when I get there as still life and landscape and also portraiture seeking the cacti in small pots who dot the globe slices of pie offer up the vision after the sermon expressing emotions without coherent narrative support because no artist responded to this … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags Friday Poem, Poetry

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