Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Well the final proof-reading, tweaking and primping of The Summer King is now done, and as of yesterday afternoon, all files are with the printer. And yes, even this late in the process I was still finding things to tweak and things that I'd missed the previous (kazillion?) times. And then my editor found a …
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Huge congratulations to Christchurch poet and author Helen Lowe – her first novel, the fabulous Thornspell, has just picked up not one but TWO Sir Julius Vogel awards at Conscription, the 2009 New Zealand Science Fiction convention! She took out Best New Talent and Best Young Adult Novel – the latter is all the more impressive when …
Well the finalists have been announced. A few surprises, and some of them even challenge my natural cynicism. The full list can be found in a number of places online, but I've used Beatie's Book blog today. This year's panel consists of Professor Mark Williams, Jane Westaway and Margo White, with Bernadette Hall as the poetry category …
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Well winter is definitely here, and if you click on Poems, you'll see that I've refreshed the offering for winter 2009 – this time it's the full Cowarral sequence. Enjoy!
Another week: another poetry publisher waves for the third time at the crowd of spectators on the shore, and sinks back through the placid waters into the primordial ooze, with barely a ripple to mark the place where it was last seen. Excuse me sir – did you see what happened? No, not really. …
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A Dark Feathered Art 