Yes, today I was the featured guest on Rattle magazine’s weekly Rattlecast podcast. (Episode 351). Regular readers of this blog know that my love of Rattle magazine is deep and of long duration – it’s a great magazine, the monthly Ekphrastic challenge and poetry prompts have give me heaps of new poem ideas, and I’ve …
The people have spoken – classes for winter 2026
I set up a poll to find out what my prospective students were most interested in me offering during the winter, complete with lots of options and a chance to rank things. And yes indeed, the people spoke. And what they’ve said is a resounding: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Essentially, the most popular answer – across all permutations …
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Bobbing on the Meniscus
is a fairly crap pun, but at least gives me something to put in as a title. And an excuse to use this gorgeous Toni Frissell photo. Ahem. This is just a quick and dirty post to say that yay, Portrait of my father as a racing yacht, the Pomfaa poem I wrote about way …
Another month, another … month
Here we are at the beginning of the second third of the year. And I had such plans! I was going to have the manuscript of book #3 ready to go out to my readers (err, another month? Or maybe two?), I was going to have all my teaching for 2026 booked and ready (umm…), …
NZ NaPoWriMo – it’s on again!
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 …
A Dark Feathered Art 