Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
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 …
Continue reading "Falling in love (still/more/again) with teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets"
For More information, visit https://canterburypoets.org.nz/tickets/
355 Colombo Street Yes, across a number of different cities and towns you will indeed see my face (sorry) and be able to read The dollhouse. In stonkingly high letters! The posters actually started going up a week ago, but I managed to come down with a cough and general malaise which meant I spent …
1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards Ok. Just one more sleep and I’ll be winging my way to Auckland. One more sleep, a flight and a taxi ride, and I’ll be ensconced in my Auckland hotel. One more sleep, a flight, a taxi ride and an ensconcement, and I’ll be wandering the streets …
1652252400 days hours minutes secondsuntilOckham NZ Book Awards The stress dreams are getting quite specific – sitting in the audience in street clothes, suddenly realising that it’s the actual ceremony and I’m up next, and don’t even know what I’m reading. I start desperately scrabbling around in my bag, and for some reason I seem …
A Dark Feathered Art 