Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I'm currently devouring a new book, Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns. My god, it’s good. It's based on an idea that I've just started exploring from a properly theoretical point of view, (although I’ve mentioned a variation in an earlier post) – deliberate, formal ways of opening a poem out beyond itself. So far …
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I’ve been a bit slow getting around to this post, and the number of things to be posting about has hit critical mass. But first, a brief pause to pay homage to Father Ted: Almost a month late, but congratulations to John Adams, who has won the 2012 NZSA Best First Book Award for Poetry …
I meant to post this last week, but Friday ended up being insanely busy, and the weekend not a lot better. Last Thursday night was the launch of Dear Heart at Ed Hopper Cafe and Bar. In typical Christchurch poetry event fashion, the weather was utterly vile. Sleet, wind, driving rain, and temperatures that refused …
(Originally I was going to add the word “sky” to the title of this post, but I like the possibilities suggested without it.) In an interesting bit of co-incidence, it’s just been announced that 4300 square kilometres of the MacKenzie Basin has been declared a Dark Sky Reserve – the biggest in the world. How …
I'm beginning to worry that I have lost the ability to just write a poem. Yesterday I was supposed to be working on a poem that I've had in my "working on it" file since 2009. It's a nice piece, and is going in interesting directions. Reading Lynn Davidson's Common Land (I’m reviewing it for Takahē) …
A Dark Feathered Art 