to the website and blog of Joanna Preston,
Tasmanaut poet, editor, and freelance creative writing tutor.
Poems
A couple of poems for autumn – one of my earliest published pieces, and a newer piece. Enjoy.
Commentaries
Other People’s Poems – Close Readings, Analyses and Poem Commentaries
To paraphrase Owen Marshall: if you want to know the time, look at the clock’s face. If you want to know how a clock works, you have to take the back off. And that’s what close reading is – taking the time to try and work out what a poem is doing, and how. Drinking it in. Learnings its secrets. Wandering around the poem’s rooms and rumaging through its drawers.
Workshops
Welcome to The Poetry Class
Since 2010 I’ve been running poetry workshops as a freelance creative writing tutor. Below is a basic outline of what to expect in each type of workshop – a sample of the things I regularly offer. Join the Poetry Class mailing list, and be first to hear when new classes open.
To see what classes are currently being offered, click here.
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To learn more about the sorts of poetry classes I offer in general, read on.
I am available to run poetry or general creative writing classes for writers’ groups, festivals, and private individuals, and can tailor a workshop to your specific needs.
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Blog
Introducing: the Decima
I’ve invented a new form! At least, I’ve come up with a set of writing constraints that amused me, and look vaguely form-ish. For reasons that will (hopefully?) become apparent, I’ve called it the decima. As far as I can find, it isn’t already a word for anything else, and sounds vaguely right. It came out …
Launched! broken lines / in charcoal
broken lines / in charcoal is now officially launched. Hurrah! It was a really fun night. Standing room only, in the end – very glad we’d come out of level two, otherwise more than half our audience would have had to stand outside the room, staring inwards and making a dash for the door whenever one …
CPC 2020 – It lives!
Yes, we finally have a lineup that is as settled as Covid19 and the general mischievousness of the universe will permit. As I type this, we still aren’t entirely sure what level of pandemic protocol we will be trying to go forward under – so just in case some late breaking events throw a spanner …
