Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
The following is the final draft of the talk I gave for Ink versus Innovation back in August. I don’t go into a huge amount of detail on any one point – four minutes is a lot faster on paper than you think – so for those who are interested, four sources that you might …
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Back in August, I was invited to take part in a gloriously quirky event at WORD – Unpopular Opinions: Ink and Innovation. It’s run by a great organisation called Publica, and the idea is pretty simple: get six people to make an unpopular argument on one side or another of a common topic, and then …
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One of the things I’ve been working on over the course of the last fifteen months is a series of poems that started when dad was dying. I am what I am: a writer. There is always a part of me that stands apart, and starts shaping words around whatever experience I’m having, or seeing …
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I’ve just finished teaching a five week course based (heavily) on Don Paterson’s Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: a new commentary (and the amazing iPad app that goes with it – god I love that thing!). I’ve written about it before, and how much I enjoy his style of commentary – intelligent, engaged, but definitely a bit …
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A Dark Feathered Art 