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Spilt Ink

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<em>Spilt Ink</em>

This 1937 cover of Spilt Inkfeatures a woodcut depicting Eileen Duggan, the first New Zealand poet to gain an international reputation. Spilt Ink was among a number of short-lived literary and arts journals – sometimes called little magazines – that were founded in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Spilt Ink, April-May 1937 (S-L-1261-Cover)

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Ben Schrader, Magazines and periodicals – Art and literary magazines, 1930 to 1950, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/44386/spilt-ink (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 6 March 2014, updated 1 April 2020.