I'm off to Te Waipounamu / the South Island next week for 3 poetry readings in 3 days!

* Invercargill - Tues 10 March
* Dunedin - Weds 11 March
* Christchurch - Thurs 12 March

Please come along, and invite your friends!

Invercargill is a solo gig kindly hosted by Arts Murihiku where I will read poems that focus on my Southland childhood & adolescence – in Dunedin and Christchurch, there are open mikes plus myself & other great guest readers.

Full details here: https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2026/03/01/draculas-march-three-cities-three-readings-three-days/

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Children’s book Play Wild recalled over unsafe edible flower advice https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/childrens-book-play-wild-recalled-over-unsafe-edible-flower-advice/FNXUK5S6VRE5JOFO4457PFUKGU/ 3 Dec, 2025

Title: Play Wild
Author: Rachel Clare
Publisher: Bateman Books
ISBN: 9781776891016

https://www.batemanbooks.co.nz/product/play-wild/

or https://web.archive.org/web/20240523193512/https://www.batemanbooks.co.nz/product/play-wild/

Instagram reel https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRvdxlFksTn/ with text (which I have added line breaks to make it easier to read):

Last week, while working on a story about edible flowers in my regular job as a gardening editor, I realised that we hadn’t been clear enough about which vegetable flowers you can eat in a list of edible flowers in my book Play Wild.

While most vegetable flowers are fine to eat (brassicas, peas, zucchinis, lettuce flowers etc), the flowers of nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, capsicums and aubergines) are toxic.

While it’s unlikely these would be your flower of choice when foraging for edible flowers (potato flowers taste incredibly hot, astringent and bitter), we want to make sure everyone is safe. Stores are being resupplied with new books with a revised list of edible flowers that excludes vegetable flowers.

If you already own the book you can cross out the words as demonstrated in the video. Or, if you email [email protected], Bateman Books will post you a sticker you can put in your book, free of charge.

There are so many wonderful edible flowers to experiment with (nasturtiums and fennel flowers are my favourite!), but please always supervise your children when they’re out foraging in the garden.

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My novella Where We Land and novel Emergency Weather are keeping some great company in this article by Claire Mabey on recommended climate fiction (cli-fi) from Aotearoa and the world! Pretty neat to have my work listed alongside Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Richard Powers!

https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/15-11-2025/what-is-cli-fi-and-why-is-it-so-hot-right-now

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"Ah, Dracula! Tim Jones on poetry, squatting and being a creature of imagination":

https://flashfrontier.com/ah-dracula-tim-jones-on-poetry/

Thanks for this profile and interview, Flash Frontier! Check out the full October issue - there is a whole lot to read and see!

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Dracula is a horror icon, so I was very happy horror writers Tee Wood and Denver Grenell wanted to ask me about my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" for their collection of interviews with horror writers from Aotearoa.

Check out the interview here: https://www.bewarethemoon.co.nz/post/nz-horror-books-author-interview-with-tim-jones-andrew-imms

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My new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" is being launched tonight, 1 October, at Unity Books Wellington,!

This is a double launch, together with Mandy Hager's new novel "Revenge and Rabbit Holes".

It would be great to see you there - no need to RSVP - just turn up at 6pm! Drinks, nibbles, speeches, readings, books.

More info: https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/

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It's a double book launch!

Mandy Hager and I are launching our new books at 6pm on Wednesday 1 October at Unity Books, Wellington - my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" and her new novel "Revenge and Rabbit Holes"!

Check out the details here: https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2025/09/04/youre-invited-to-a-double-book-launch-on-wednesday-1-october-dracula-in-the-colonies-by-tim-jones-and-revenge-and-rabbit-holes-by-mandy-hager/

I hope you can come along! Many thanks to The Cuba Press for publishing both books, and to Unity Books Wellington for hosting the launch.

Can't make the launch? You can pre-order Dracula in the Colonies here: https://thecubapress.nz/shop/dracula-in-the-colonies/

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I'm having some trouble importing my posts from BookWyrm, but I just finished the delightful introduction to the Milverton Mysteries by @gbralph and have written a very short review here: https://bookwyrm.social/user/jojoinabox/review/7058529/s/one-part-brokenwood-one-part-cat-who

(TL;DR, I read the whole book in one sitting this afternoon and I thought it was lovely and cosy. Also, Keith is an excellent name for a cat. There is a feline Keith in my neighbourhood that steals shoes, but that's beside the point.)

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