Just under three weeks on from the second Christchurch earthquake, and it seems the tragedies keep piling up. They're still trying to recover bodies in the city of Christchurch, and now Japan is being put to the sword. Having been through both 7.1 and a 6.3 magnitude quakes, I can't even begin to imagine how …
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 …
Larkin, lawnmowers, and longing
This evening after shutting the chooks in for the night, I spent about ten minutes just staring back at our house, feeling such huge gratefulness that we were both ok, that the people I love all seem to be ok, that our little house had carried us safely through (so far). That the clouds had cleared, …
Earthquake. Again.
I'm posting this quickly, between aftershocks. There has been another huge earthquake – magnitude 6.3, 5 km deep, centred in Lyttleton. It was, and still is, absolutely terrifying. But so far I'm ok, and Stewart is ok – Southbridge and Lincoln are on the other side of Christchurch, so we have so far escaped the …
The Editing Masterclass is Go!
Hooray, enough people want to attend my Editing Masterclass! There are still a couple of places left, if you've been umming and ahhing. Those who are interested in the course but don't have a poem they want worked on, that's fine too – the course is about the process more than the product. Last possible …
A Dark Feathered Art 