Just a quick post to reassure those of you who have been emailing me to say you can’t access the competition page. The page has been taken offline so I can enter the ten words there and set everything to post automatically at midnight. It will reappear again as soon as the competition starts. (Incidentally, …
A couple of events for Poetry Day week 2019
Super quick post, just to (somewhat belatedly) draw attention to some events happening in Christchurch during the week of Poetry Day this year. (I know, but what else can I call it?) Quite apart from the vast number of poetry competitions being held across New Zealand (including takahē magazine’s Hunt Ducker comp, the Given Words comp, and …
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John Donne – Meditation XVII
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. …
There is no such thing as a surfeit of good Belgian chocolates (until you have to choose just six)
One of the best things about preparing to teach classes is the amount of reading that I get to do. Am required to do, in fact. I imagine it's something like being the menu tester at a superb restaurant, or a product quality inspector at a very good chocolate factory, somewhere in Belgium, say, where …
HTFIIANYAA?! (or, How On Earth Is It A New Year Already Again??)
I did vaguely plan to do my usual signing off for the year post at the end of December, but then it turned out it was actually January. Not sure how that happened, but there you go. Which does at least spare me the embarrassment of doing a post summing up all the things that I …
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A Dark Feathered Art 