First, the anthology: Yes indeedy, the anthology of poems from ten-years-worth of my poetry classes is finally here. Isn‘t it lovely? The cover was designed by Kate Rennie, who is also one of the (37!) contributors. We’re having the official launch at Tūranga, 5.30pm to 7.30pm on the evening of Thursday September 24th and will be …
Happy Quake-iversary, Canterbury
Ten years ago today I was standing in the doorway of my bedroom, watching the house swaying around me, listening to the sound of the nails pulling in and out of the framing timbers of the house. I can’t remember how many aftershocks we’d had by this point, four hours on from the 7.1 earthquake …
Well I think this just about sums it up:
Sigh …
NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 30
You’ve made it – all the way through April. Whether you’ve managed to write a poem every day this month, or tried to, or just thought about it, well done. Today, you will be writing a cento – a poem made up entirely of lines borrowed from other poems. And not just any cento – to …
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NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 29
Today’s exercise is in response to a fascinating poet who was born on this day in 1863, and died on this day exactly seventy years later, in 1933 – the Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy. The poem I know best of his is one that feels worryingly appropriate in the nouveau-apocalyptic world we currently find ourselves …
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A Dark Feathered Art 