Well done, NaPoWriMo-ers! Today is the last day of this monstrous insanity. One last poem, one last posting to seal your end of the bargain. In case you've completely run out of ideas, I've got a particularly curly writing challenge for you. But more on that later. Looking over the blogs, I see that Catherine …
NZ versus NaPoWriMo 2010 – the final straight
Only five more poems to go! And the Kiwi contingent are soldiering on magnificently (which is an unintentionally apt metaphor, yesterday being Anzac Day). Catherine has been putting a villanelle through its paces, and contemplating the use of a circus ringmaster in parliament; Marisa has been watching birds, offering flowers and thinking about thermals; Greg has been channelling Roger …
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Book Launch – Karen Zelas, Past Perfect
It's that time of year again – book launch season! Christchurch writer Karen Zelas is launching her first novel, “Past Perfect”, at The Twisted Hop at 5.30 pm on May 3rd (Monday). From the official blurb: Past Perfect is a story of love and loss, prejudice and resolution, as well as the search for selfhood. …
CPIT Poetry Courses for Term 3
As you'll see from the sidebar, the Tuesday night edition of POET102 has been cancelled. Insufficient numbers. I'm feeling slightly like the girl who threw a birthday party (fancy invitations, balloons, streamers, a bouncy castle, the lot) and then spent three hours coming to the slow and shameful realisation that no one was coming (cue violins) …
NZ versus NaPoWriMo 2010 – past half way!
Well here we are in the latter weeks of April. 18 poems down, and only 12 more to go for those who are taking the challenge. ◊ Kay has written about ‘the transit of my eyesight’ (hers, not mine, but oooh, I want that line!) and how rhythm & design link things in unexpected ways. …
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A Dark Feathered Art 