Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
It's that time of year again, when those of us with a yen towards Romantic poetry (Byron & Wordsworth, NOT Mills & Boon) start feverishly pacing up and down the leafless lanes attempting to compose a poem on a Romantic theme for the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's annual International Poetry Competition. Actually it's two competitions – …
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Back from my trip to the 2011 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. I had a great time, and was utterly amazed by the scale of the organisation. I knew it was big, but according to one of my drivers (yes, they even have a team of drivers who whisk authors from airport to hotel to …
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Just back from my trip to the deep South as part of the Southland Arts Festival. I had an absolute ball. The events I was part of were organised through the Dan Davin Foundation, which does a fabulous job of promoting literature in Southland. The reading (‘Poetry in the Stack’) was first, and I was sharing …
Now that post title should get quite a few confused new visitors … The winner of my first Magazine De-clutter Giveaway contest (and only participant) is (drumroll please) Greg O'Connell! Well done Greg. I think your stilt limerick frightened the pretenders away. But I have say that my personal favourite was your cinquain “March Night”. …
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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A Dark Feathered Art 