Ankh Spice
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’s debut full poetry collection, The Water Engine, was published by Femme Salvé Books (an imprint of Animal Heart Press) in November 2021.
Forthcoming:
His micro-collection will be published by Hedgehog Press as a limited edition print run in their Stickleback series in 2022..
A debut chapbook, consisting entirely of short imagistic poems paired with his own nature photography, has been accepted by a UK press and is earmarked for publication in 2022/23.
He still can’t quite believe any of this is real life, but oh, he really wants to.