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	<description>Renée, novelist and playwright, New Zealand</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tis the season&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou, its December so this is the last Busk for 2020. As always I take December and January off. Here&#8217;s some hopes for 2021. In fact I hope everyone is paid a universal living wage. The idea of a universal basic income has a lot of merit but while I&#8217;m sure it will [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Is that a dead rose bud or a broad bean pod?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou, its true that roses don&#8217;t seem to last long enough. There&#8217;s that first flush of buds, then the swelling of the flower, the lushness of the blooms and if you&#8217;ve chosen well, a delicious  perfume, then just as you think this is why I love spring, the blooms droop, die, need to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Frida poem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a starburst In my eyes – the Frida poem? Frida? The one with the haunted face thick eyebrows like little brushes kissing? Who paints loves shouts? Craves colour, song, movement? The one confined held constrained inside that iron straitjacket where agony sings its off–key notes? Chipped and broken bones pitch soprano nerves moan alto [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou, had a lovely time in Christchurch, met up with old friends, made new ones, saw the Ngaio Marsh cottage garden. My friend had tried to contact the organisers of the tours, she rang and left numerous messages but no–one answered any of them so we took a chance and went and saw [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret weapon&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou, a great result last Saturday and the second time in my lifetime its happened.  This kind of election result whether under MMP or not is rare in our electoral history and many are the questions as to why it happened. Here, for your eyes only, I reveal the secret&#8230; In 1938 the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Big Skite</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou, Te Whē is here – homai te pakipaki – bilingual Māori/English literature journal launched in Te Reo Māori heartland – Otaki. This week WednesdayBusk celebrates the online launch of the Māori literature journal Te Whē – te hau o te whenua. Poetry, short stories and essays in Te Reo Māori and English, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Val&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Renée]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, October 7, is your  birthday. It still seems wrong that you should have gone first and I still wish you could have waited. You were a couple of years younger than me and it continues to feel like something is out of kilter when October 7 comes around each year and you&#8217;re not here [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou I don&#8217;t know about you but around this time I always get a bit tired of the electoral cycle. The commentators are desperate for something new to say, the candidates are stepping very carefully and promising me chocolate and bubbles for breakfast every day if I&#8217;ll vote for them. Spring starts up [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Song of the Cleaner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a dark green shadow a–float on this ocean of grime I am a message scraped on stone a night weaver, a spiller of true glory a spinner of used condoms, salty tissues, half–eaten egg sandwiches apple cores, rubber gloves, snotty masks middle of the floor splats, chewed fingernails See me I wave my [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about silence and cake forks&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora koutou, haere mai ki te wiki o te reo Maori. My daily use of te reo Maori is hampered by not speaking it very well, being scared of making mistakes, and feeling awkward, guilty and shy around fluent speakers and thinking its easier to remain silent. When I was young there were lots [&#8230;]]]></description>
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