Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet, Editor and Creative Writing Tutor
Today I’ll be interviewing poet, editor, chicken-lover— —Er, can we please be clear that that is ‘lover’ in the sense of ‘being very keen on, but not at all in a sexual sense’ please? Yes, of course. Let me see. Poet, editor, chicken-keeper —is that ok? Yes, thank you, much better. I already get quite …
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Well that’s another year, just about gone. It started with a lurch, flailed around a bit in the middle, and then collapsed into an unsightly puddle and really never managed to recover. Or maybe I should put it honestly – that this has been a brutal year. That I want it gone. Some of it …
I imagine most people reading the title of this post will be puzzled by the name, and wonder what corner of the poetry world he hails from. And the answer is: he doesn’t. He wasn’t a poet. But, after my grandmother, he is the person most responsible for me being a poet. And he died …
Big congratulations to Siobhan Harvey, who has won the 2013 Kathleen Grattan Award for the manuscript of her second collection, Nephology for Beginners! The judge this year was Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, who apparently had a field of ninety manuscripts to work his way through. The official announcement was once again made on The Arts on …
Yep, that’s it – I’ve finally selected my winners for the 2013 Takahē Poetry competition. It feels like it’s taken me a very long time, but I’m satisfied with my choices. (I’d better be – I’ve submitted my report and sent the entries back to the competition secretary!)Picking the two runners-up was actually the hardest. …
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A Dark Feathered Art 