Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Well the finalists have been announced. A few surprises, and some of them even challenge my natural cynicism. The full list can be found in a number of places online, but I've used Beatie's Book blog today. This year's panel consists of Professor Mark Williams, Jane Westaway and Margo White, with Bernadette Hall as the poetry category …
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Well winter is definitely here, and if you click on Poems, you'll see that I've refreshed the offering for winter 2009 – this time it's the full Cowarral sequence. Enjoy!
Another week: another poetry publisher waves for the third time at the crowd of spectators on the shore, and sinks back through the placid waters into the primordial ooze, with barely a ripple to mark the place where it was last seen. Excuse me sir – did you see what happened? No, not really. …
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My pleasure in Ruth Padel's accession to the position of Oxford Professor of Poetry was premature. It seems that she was the person who set the smear campaign against Derek Walcott into motion. In a statement to media last night, she had the following to say: I genuinely believe that I did nothing intentional that …
I finished Poem, Revised the other day, and it was every bit as good as I'd hoped. There's one poet in particular that I'd like to quote: Deena Linett. Not because her revision was especially illuminating – we got the final version of the poem plus a lot of notes from early pre-drafts, along with …
A Dark Feathered Art 