Following from Amy's comment on yesterday's post, I came across a YouTube vid that I just have to share. It's a three year old boy called Samuel Chelpka, who has memorised Billy Collins's poem “Litany”: Gorgeous, isn't it? And what great parents, to have taught their child to love poetry this young. If you're wondering what …
Billy Collins, Roses, and beagles
I recently discovered the Slate magazine weekly poem column – well worth checking out. Each week a new poem read by the author (or, if the author is someone dead, read by Robert Pinsky). There's also a comments free-for-all, suitably titled “The Fray”. I've lurked a bit, but not joined. But again, worth having a …
Guest Readerings and Workshops for 2011
I'm guest reader at two festivals this year – the Southland Festival of the Arts at the end of April, and Auckland Writers and Readers Festival in May. I'll be running a single-session Reading for Writing workshop in Invercargill on May 1st – I'll post fuller details in the sidebar when they come to hand, or you can …
Font Crimes – a rebuttal
Proving once again that he probably does a lot less work at work than he would like me to believe, my other half has pointed me towards an addition to the ‘in/appropriate font selection’ story. It's one of the Short Comic Monologues on Timothy McSweeney's website. Personally, I find it hysterical. But I should warn …
Font crimes
If you find yourself having strong opinions about the suitability (or otherwise) of various fonts for the purposes for which they are used, you may like to visit http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/. Having grown up in the era when computers went from being the domain of the nerdiest boy (why always boy‽) in the class; to being a sign …
A Dark Feathered Art 