Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
With just on 24 hours to register, I’m wondering if I should run a CV2-inspired competition for National Poetry Day. Post a set of words at midnight, and then give people just 24 hours to write and submit a poem using all of them. See if I can wangle a few bucks from the official …
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I was going to title this one “After this I am instituting a policy of shooting on sight, definitely site” but then I thought that it might be the sort of online posting that results in government agencies taking an unhelpful level of interest in my activities. The process of renovation that began last July …
I recently got my notification from the folks at CV2 that it is time once again to sign up for their annual Two-Day Poem Contest. Yep, that one. The one where I had to write a poem using (among other words) absquatulate, and copacetic. (You know it’s bad when ‘bombastic’ scarcely rates a mention.) If …
Welcome to 2018. (Yes I know it’s been underway a while. I was giving it all time to make sure it was actually the new year happening, and not just 2017 in a loop.) As you will notice, the website has had a bit of a refurb. Hopefully you like what you see. A change …
Another year, another set of domestic disasters, rejections, frustrations, minor triumphs and bursts of silliness. Oh, and some poetry too. It all began really well, with winning the January Rattle Ekphrastic competition. I still like the poem too, which is good. (And not always the way these things unpack). But then I failed completely to …
A Dark Feathered Art 