Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Yesterday my publisher sent me the list of where copies of The Summer King are being sent for review. Scary stuff! We had quite a long email conversation a couple of months ago about where it would be worth sending to. It was a depressing conversation – the number of places that routinely run poetry …
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I've always wondered what this would feel like. I went out to collect the mail, and found a small package in the mailbox – my book, back from the printers! My real, actual, physical, touchable, super-shiny BOOK! (Colour balance in the photo is a bit off – glossy cover and all that. But still!) I …
At the moment I'm running around trying to get things finalised for the launch of The Summer King. Lots and lots of promo things. I've just had a group of poems from the collection selected to appear on an Italian poetry site, Fiera Lingue, run by Anny Ballardini. It's well worth a look – poets from …
Exactly one month out from the launch of The Summer King, and I can finally show the cover to you all. The first couple of versions of the cover weren't quite right – the earliest version was a white background with a more angular tree, and just didn't do it for me. And we were …
If you look right below the header image, you'll see that a new page has appeared – Commentaries! Yes, I've finally managed to get around to formatting some of my close readings and putting them up. I hope to be able to post quite a lot more of these. I really enjoy getting in to …
A Dark Feathered Art 