After a certain amount of deliberation (ok, not that much), I’m offering two poetry workshops for the Summer – a Billy Collins Weekend, and a Poetic Endings Masterclass. The Billy Collins Weekend – Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd January – will be a Reading for Writing class, where we’ll look exclusively at Billy Collins poems. …
Poem – John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till …
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A Walking Tour through the shattered
It’s finally here. CERA have set up a walkway into Cathedral Square, and will be allowing 300 people per hour over 22 hours of the weekend to walk down Colombo St, and into Cathedral Square. There’s a video you can view here, with Warwick Isaacs (General Manager Operations for CERA) walking the route, talking about what …
Emma Neale wins the 2011 Kathleen Grattan Award
Congratulations to Dunedin's Emma Neale, who has won this year's Kathleen Grattan Award with her collection "The Truth Graden". (Love the name!) She is disgustingly talented, with three poetry collections (Sleeve-Notes, How to Make a Million and Spark) and a couple of well-regarded novels already behind her. Well done Emma! I look forward to getting my …
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Poem – Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time”
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may: Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age …
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A Dark Feathered Art 