Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Day three: hanging in there? Today’s exercise is a classic: the ode. A public poem in praise of something or someone. And because they don’t get celebrated anywhere near enough, your subject should be one of those people toiling away to keep us all going during this lockdown and crisis – supermarket workers, nurses, cleaners, …
Continue reading "NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 3"
Over the Easter/Passover break in 2015, a group of enterprising senior citizens made a little after-hours excursion to the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company … yes, the infamous Hatton Garden Heist was five years ago today. As a tip of the hat, your task is to write a poem about stealing something, beginning your poem …
Continue reading "NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 2"
[Apologies if this turns up twice for some people – it disappeared around midday, so I reposted.] Your first exercise is to write a poem about a time when you were locked out – maybe of your house, your car, the bathroom, your dorm, whatever. And yes, you may invent an occasion if you’ve never …
Continue reading "NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 1"
Well that’s another swathe of plans sent down the porcelain gullet! Here I was, one class down, the second not due to be taught until May (leaving a comfortable amount of time to do some research, some gentle and leisurely reading, and maybe even some actual writing of my own), being very good and diligent …
… in lieu of signing off. Which I kinda forgot about for 2019. But here I am, back again. Hooray! This year I’m planning to only teach in the first six months. Much as I enjoy it, it does eat in to the time and energy I need for my own writing. And the stats …
A Dark Feathered Art 