As you'll see from the sidebar, the Tuesday night edition of POET102 has been cancelled. Insufficient numbers. I'm feeling slightly like the girl who threw a birthday party (fancy invitations, balloons, streamers, a bouncy castle, the lot) and then spent three hours coming to the slow and shameful realisation that no one was coming (cue violins) …
NZ versus NaPoWriMo 2010 – past half way!
Well here we are in the latter weeks of April. 18 poems down, and only 12 more to go for those who are taking the challenge. ◊ Kay has written about ‘the transit of my eyesight’ (hers, not mine, but oooh, I want that line!) and how rhythm & design link things in unexpected ways. …
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Freedom! (I won’t let you down)
(Or for those of you who prefer Fleetwood Mac to George Michael, how about “You can go your own way”?) I just had one of those writing experiences that is both scary and encouraging. A poem that I've been working on for ages just shook me off, gave itself a flap and opened out into …
The Summer King gets shortlisted!
A lovely piece of news: The Summer King has been shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize! The prize is awarded for a first book of poetry by an Australian author, published in the preceding two calendar years (until 1998 it was for a first book published in the preceding calendar year). And the list of …
NZ vs NaPoWriMo 2010 – first week
Well here we are, one week in to the madness. This time last year I had managed to keep up – seven poems-in-progress posted. Looking back, they included some of the best I wrote all month. Three damn good, one reasonable, two that will be recycled at some point, and one that … hmm, lets …
A Dark Feathered Art 