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 …
A winner in comfortable trousers
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”. …
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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Grief, the international currency
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 …
A Dark Feathered Art 