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NZ Herald
11-07-2025
- NZ Herald
‘Kinky red pants': The photo of Polkinghorne that changed everything
In an exclusive extract from his new book Polkinghorne, award-winning journalist and author Steve Braunias wrote about a photo he believes turned New Zealand hearts against Philip Polkinghorne, and revealed him 'a bondage warrior, enjoying every bit of his midlife crisis'. The High Court of Auckland is a white-turreted castle


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- Newsroom
The Sunday Poem, by Brian Turner
Note from ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias: Victor Billot is taking a leave of absence from his Sunday Ode to pursue his political destiny at the local body elections. In his place, for the next three months, ReadingRoom invites new and established poems to email their work for consideration to stephen11@ Brian Turner begins the series with an epic poem. New Zealanders, a Definition Born here, buggered it up Taken with kind permission from Brian Turner: Selected Poems (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35), available in bookstores nationwide.


NZ Herald
25-06-2025
- NZ Herald
Polkinghorne's new book: Reality star ‘shaken' by encounter with eye surgeon
Reality TV star Julia Lorimer told the Herald she was paired together with Philip Polkinghorne at a writing course in June. A reality star from The Real Housewives of Auckland says an encounter with Remuera eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne in a creative writing class last week left her shaken - and the tutor phoned to check on her afterwards. Julia Lorimer, 56, told the Herald that halfway through the one-day-long