Ankh Spice is a poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. He’s completely obsessed with the sea, and he insists that our natural environment and those old stories we don’t even know we know mingle in magical ways to shape the human beings we become – and that sometimes we’re allowed to notice it happening.
His poetry has been widely published over the last two years, with multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. His poem ‘New Cloth’ was a joint winner of the Poetry Archive’s WorldView2020 competition, and a video of him reading it (by the sea, where else?) now lives in perpetuity in the Archive.
He has the enormous privilege of being a co-editor at IceFloe Press, and a poetry contributing editor at Barren Magazine.
Ankh has several collections forthcoming. His micro-collection will be published by Hedgehog Press as a limited edition print run in their Stickleback series in late 2021/early 2022. A debut chapbook, consisting entirely of short imagistic poems accompanied by his own nature photography, has been accepted by a UK press and is earmarked for publication in 2022. His full collection is in progress with an international publisher, due for imminent release in late 2021.
He still can’t quite believe any of this is real life, but oh, he really wants to.