Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Time to dangle another invented form in front of you. For reasons that made sense when I started, and felt like an advanced degree in self-flagellation as the weeks wore on, I ran three separate groups for my Rhyme & Reasons class. The Belissima was the product of cheese before bedtime my Saturday group, and …
Just finished teaching a series of classes looking at formal poetry. It’s been quite a lot of fun, even if I did manage to cock up the handouts. Repeatedly. (Sigh!) Oh well, doing everything online meant I could just make my (multiple) corrections to the master document and flick a new pdf to everyone right …
Yes, it’s that time of year again – the sap is flowing, the garden is rioting, the blackbirds are going bonkers, and the Canterbury Poets’ Collective annual Poetry in Performance readings series is just around the corner. Once again, Covid and the general Bosheit of the universe ( it sounds funkier in German) has meant …
Happy Poetry Day! I had the perfect lead-in to Poetry Day. Last night I spent an hour (more?) talking to a group of South African students about The Pride of Lions. This time my hosts were Reddam House School in Durbanville, Cape Town, and their indefatigable teacher Nicola Lazenby. I had such a great time! …
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A Dark Feathered Art 