I came across an article on the Sydney Morning Herald website about a brilliant idea – coffee shops having a Poet in Residence. Actually there are a lot of good ideas in the article, including a couple I recognise from Gary Mex Glazner's How to Make a Living as a Poet. I've often thought that …
Magazine De-clutter – giveaway and contest
In an effort to try and regain something resembling control of my life, I've decided to get rid of some of the literary magazines that I've subscribed to in the past. So this is your chance to snaffle a selection of literary periodicals, of varying age and origin. There are a lot of them, so …
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The Invisible Editor
I was sent a link to a quite interesting article from the Meanjin website, written by (book) editor, Mandy Brett. It's called Stet By Me, and I'll wait while you go read. Being sent the link just now is eerily appropriate, given that the Editing Masterclass has been rescheduled for this weekend (one space left, …
The secret of good tragedy
Here we are, just (a few hours) under two weeks since the earthquake. We felt a decent jolt last night, which was the first one I've felt here since last Tuesday night (there have been two others we would normally have felt, but on Saturday morning we were driving, and on Saturday evening we were in …
Billy Collins, Roses, and beagles
I recently discovered the Slate magazine weekly poem column – well worth checking out. Each week a new poem read by the author (or, if the author is someone dead, read by Robert Pinsky). There's also a comments free-for-all, suitably titled “The Fray”. I've lurked a bit, but not joined. But again, worth having a …
A Dark Feathered Art 