The Word Resort

words for feeling less alone in the world

Hello

I’m Annabel and welcome to my Word Resort: a project of thinking, feeling and memory.

It’s poetry. It’s pictures from my moving through the world. It’s collections of essays and articles I’ve written.

This is made for transience — come back to it during moments in-between things or when you’re looking for something to muse on.

Message me below if you’d like to chat about commissions, work, words or feelings — sounds nice.

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May / June
Sigh / Swoon

Super special to have worked on the naming for @lamplightbooks.akl for friends’ new book store in Parnell.

Two favourite worlds colliding ✨Tāmaki friends - Check it out ✨

Lisa phoenixing in the Portuguese dunes 🌞

I’ve been writing love poem commissions for people for over five years now and it continues to be one of my favourite things to write. It’s all those small specificities people tell me I love the most - the mundaneness, the specificities,

Tiny moon through the window the other night.

~ good to have those reminders of the silvery insignificance of things every once and a while

I can never get a good close up of the flowers on our table but perhaps that’s the enigmatic point. I loved these - I bought them on my lunch break and they lasted almost an entire month 🌸
Safety and spontaneity ~ always swinging between the t

Crush eye view ✨

Sand desert energy - some of the best to see, some of the best to feel ✨
Olivia in Te Paki

When I was 19 during a trip to India, a friend of mine died in an accident back in New Zealand. I never got to see her funeral or say goodbye.

Returning home and watching her family grieve was the most confusing and helpless experience - here we wer

soft energy / tangible joys

Right before lockdown started last year. We drove back from Piha after the sun set and as we got into reception I opened my phone and had three emails that cancelled all the work I had on for the next six months.
An impossible year to properly think