Tomorrow night (21st November – how did it get so late in the year already?!) is the Season’s Finale of the Canterbury Poets’ Collective Spring Poetry in Performance Readings series. And the special guest readers are … the winners of the Open Mic, as chosen by the audience! Yay! I think it’s a really nice …
A final workshop flourish for 2012
Blimey, it never stops at this time of year, does it? Having just survived the weekend Poem Unleashed workshop (lost of fun, but exhausting!) it is now time to pimp my final class for the year – a straight writing exercise workshop: Jump-staring the Muse Saturdays, November 10th, 17th, 24th, and December 1st and 8th, …
October Bouquets
One of the (many) things I love about October is that it is the month when the annual anthologies start appearing. I have in my hands the latest Best American Poetry; the NZPS anthology (Building a Time Machine) launch is just around the corner, and the latest Forward Book of Poetry is winging its way across …
Inspiration, breath and patience
Writing poems is like waiting for lightning to strike. But it's hard to order your life around that. – Stephen Dobyns from As the Poet Said … I was thinking about the business of inspiration. What a strange variation of it we seem to have as poets, and all the ways we complicate it. When I …
Canterbury Poets’ Spring 2012 Readings Series
Hooray hooray, spring has sprung, the garden is going ape-shit, and it’s time for the CPC Poetry Readings again! Isn’t it a nifty poster? Not to mention a fascinating lineup? (Well, other than me.) (No, bollocks to that – including me!) You can download a copy of the official poster for yourself, your friends and/or …
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A Dark Feathered Art 