Profile

Kirstie McKinnon lives, writes and surfs in East Coast Otago. She is the author of the poetry collection Songs from the Water. She writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Books

Songs from the Water. Kirstie McKinnon. Published by the author. Printed at Uniprint Otago. 2020. ISBN 978-0473-53451-6

“Songs from the Water is skillful and always speaking out of passionate, clear-eyed relationship with the earth and her creatures.” 
Carolyn McCurdie

Tight Lines: an anthology. Kilmog Press, 2016. 
Kirstie has seven poems in this collection by the Tight Lines poetry group. 

Editor of and contributor to the book-in-development, CUMULUS: an anthology of skies in collaboration with photographer Carlos Biggemann and fourteen Dunedin and international poets (2020/2021). The development of CUMULUS is featured in the AttitudeLive documentary, Being Me: Carlos. https://attitudelive.com/player-page/being-me-carlos/ 

Published Poetry

arc.  Love in the Time of COVID: a chronicle of a pandemic
https://loveinthetimeofcovidchronicle.com/ , June 2021

As are you. The Otago Daily Times, 3 Feb 2018.

Coastal Trees. The Otago Daily Times, 8 Aug 2020.

Deep Stream. Takahē 86, April 2016.

Evergreen Magnolia Mind. Corpus https://corpus.nz/that-other-anatomy-how-can-spirituality-sit-alongside-science/ , 1 Oct 2018. 

Eye contact. The Otago Daily Times, 15 June 2015.

Indigo. The Otago Daily Times, 8 May 2021.

Lewis. Landfall 238, Nov 2019

Night Swim. The Otago Daily Times, 1 Sep 2018.

Pine Cones. Poems in the Waiting Room, Autumn 2021.

Red Sky. Love in the Time of COVID: a chronicle of a pandemic
https://loveinthetimeofcovidchronicle.com/2021/05/01/cumulus-an-anthology-of-skies-kirstie-mckinnon-with-carlos-biggemann-poets/ , May 2021.

Ruru. Takahē 86, April 2016.

Shark Bell. The Otago Daily Times, 30 Dec 2013.

Shiel Hill. The Otago Daily Times, 4 Jan 2016.

Snails. Takahē 86, April 2016.

Solo to the South Pole. Antarctica Poetry Exhibition, 2019.

Wake. The Otago Daily Times, 3 Aug 2019.

Waterfalls. Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Possibilities Project, https://hail.to/dunedin-unesco-city-of-literature/article/Y6qHXOp , 25 May 2020.

Whale Mother. Corpus https://corpus.nz/that-other-anatomy-how-can-spirituality-sit-alongside-science/ , 4 March 2019. 

Non-fiction

LandSAR Search Dogs Newsletter
Kirstie writes biographical interviews for the LandSAR Search Dog Newsletter. 

 

Poetry Reviews
Kirstie occasionally reviews for the Otago Daily Times and Takahē.

 

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