Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming is the author of the verse novel Song of Less (Cordite, 2022) and two collections of poetry with Te Herenga Waka University Press. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University's IIML, a Masters in English from Otago University, and a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University. Joan is the 2025 Kaipukahu Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato.

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Works By Joan Fleming

Shadow Texts
Joan Fleming reviews two books that embrace the discomfort occasioned by reckonings with colonial monuments. While challenges to commemorative art are often characterised as destructive, Fleming highlights the creative aspect of these reframings.
21 May. 2025
The Half-Life of Caution
Joan Fleming enters The Exclusion Zone, a new collection of ‘radioactive poetry’ by Shastra Deo that mines the field of nuclear semiotics in search of a durable language of warning.
14 Aug. 2023

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Joan Fleming

Works By Joan Fleming

Shadow Texts

The Half-Life of Caution