Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
What a superb way to start the writing year! Having been entreated to do so for quite a few years now, I bit the bullet late last year and organised a writing retreat/workshop, which took place over the weekend just past. I had no idea how it would go – I tend to fret about …
I’ve invented a new form! At least, I’ve come up with a set of writing constraints that amused me, and look vaguely form-ish. For reasons that will (hopefully?) become apparent, I’ve called it the decima. As far as I can find, it isn’t already a word for anything else, and sounds vaguely right. [Edit: I have …
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You’ve made it – all the way through April. Whether you’ve managed to write a poem every day this month, or tried to, or just thought about it, well done. Today, you will be writing  a cento – a poem made up entirely of lines borrowed from other poems. And not just any cento – to …
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Today’s exercise is in response to a fascinating poet who was born on this day in 1863, and died on this day exactly seventy years later, in 1933 – the Greek poet,  Constantine Cavafy. The poem I know best of his is one that feels worryingly appropriate in the nouveau-apocalyptic  world we currently find ourselves …
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A Dark Feathered Art 