Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
August is here, robes and ticket-stubs trailing behind it as it stumbles out of the taxi and up the driveway to your door. Today’s word cloud is from Briar Wood’s Rāwahi. This is a gloriously Kiwi word cloud, isn’t it? The Maori words of course anchor it here, but so do the references to other places …
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This week’s word cloud is from Tony Beyer’s Anchor Stone. Again, colours are from the cover (because that keeps things funky) and the words are the titles of the poems contained within. Worth noting that Tony is the only bloke to have made the shortlist this time around.
It’s getting closer – only five weeks to go. This week’s word cloud is made from the contents pages of Hannah Mettner’s Fully Clothed and So Forgetful, which took out the Jessie Mackay Award (aka the Best First Poetry Collection prize) at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Again, you’d just about buy this for …
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This week’s word cloud is made from the Contents pages of Elizabeth Smither’s lovely Night Horse, which took out Best Poetry Collection at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. (The colours of the cloud are taken from the book cover, because I like to play with that sort of thing.) And while it’s true that you …
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To help you warm up for the 24-Hour Poem Competition, I thought I’d give you a weekly word-cloud to contemplate. Who knows, maybe it’ll even get you writing something. This week it’s made up of words from the competition blurb. In coming weeks I’ll give you clouds made from the contents pages of the five …
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A Dark Feathered Art 