Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Yes, because many many many people have been asking me, with a mixture of hope and desperation in their eyes, if I’m going to be running this again … once again I will be running an NZ NaPoWriMo season. There are loads of free sites hosting NaPoWriMo online, so you very definitely don’t need to …
Meant to post this a while ago – I’ve had a second poem from The Summer King picked up by Cambridge University Press for use in their Songs of Ourselves anthology for study – this time the poem is Gloves, and the anthology is Songs of Ourselves vol. 3. I haven’t seen a copy of …
Welcome Joanna, it’s been a while since we last spoke. Yes indeedy. Cripes, is it … ten years?! Actually I think it’s longer than that. Really? Really. It was April 2014. And that’s longer than ten years ago? It is. It was twelve years ago. Crikey! At the time you had just signed on to …
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I wanted to call this NaPoWriMo 2025 – All go (but will we survive?), but apparently that sucks for SEO. Ahem. This is to confirm that yes, The Poetry Class will once again be running an NZ NaPoWriMo site for people who want to torment themselves gradually devolve into lunacy challenge themselves poetically and join …
We’ve lost another one. After mourning the loss of Kevin Ireland in 2023, then Vincent O’Sullivan in 2024, the triumvirate has been completed by the death of Brian Turner yesterday. Like Kevin and Vincent, I had had the pleasure of meeting Brian through CPC on a number of occasions. I can remember emceeing a reading …
A Dark Feathered Art 