Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards The stress dreams are getting quite specific – sitting in the audience in street clothes, suddenly realising that it’s the actual ceremony and I’m up next, and don’t even know what I’m reading. I start desperately scrabbling around in my bag, and for some reason I seem …
1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards Just under two weeks to go, and I just discovered that the three posts I had set to publish since the shortlisting have not published themselves … because I somehow managed to set them for 2023. Sigh! Oh well, this one will be a bit of a …
I've tried typing this opening paragraph about forty times now, and keep having to delete it as too twee, or too glib, or too loopy, or too incoherent … so here it is, very simply: tumble has made the shortlist of the 2022 Mary & Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockhams. (Sorry – …
Thank you to those who took part in the competition – Wendy, Gail and Vicky. I loved the use you made of my lines! And it was great to see people engaging with the form – the only way a new form will ever gain traction is if people use it, so students, you can …
Continue reading "The Summer King /Whetu competition – results!"
A couple of lovely reviews have come out. (Well, one review and a couple of public mentions.) The latest OUP newsletter showcased the three of us OUP authors being longlisted – me for tumble, Siobhan Harvey for Ghosts, and Alexander McKinnon for Come Back to Mona Vale, (which sounds absolutely fascinating!) Yay us! And more …
A Dark Feathered Art 