I’ve talked before about bad book titles, but I came across this article on the truly horrible covers for some Wordsworth Classics and decided It Needed To Be Shared More Widely. (Having said that, I found the link on Beattie’s Book Blog, which numbers its subscribers at least an order of magnitude higher than mine …
Countdown to the Competition – five weeks to NPD
It’s getting closer – only five weeks to go. This week’s word cloud is made from the contents pages of Hannah Mettner’s Fully Clothed and So Forgetful, which took out the Jessie Mackay Award (aka the Best First Poetry Collection prize) at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Again, you’d just about buy this for …
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Countdown to the Competition – six weeks to NPD
This week’s word cloud is made from the Contents pages of Elizabeth Smither’s lovely Night Horse, which took out Best Poetry Collection at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. (The colours of the cloud are taken from the book cover, because I like to play with that sort of thing.) And while it’s true that you …
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Countdown to the Competition – seven weeks to NPD
To help you warm up for the 24-Hour Poem Competition, I thought I’d give you a weekly word-cloud to contemplate. Who knows, maybe it’ll even get you writing something. This week it’s made up of words from the competition blurb. In coming weeks I’ll give you clouds made from the contents pages of the five …
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Poetry Day Planning – fancy a competition?
With just on 24 hours to register, I’m wondering if I should run a CV2-inspired competition for National Poetry Day. Post a set of words at midnight, and then give people just 24 hours to write and submit a poem using all of them. See if I can wangle a few bucks from the official …
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A Dark Feathered Art 