Following from Amy's comment on yesterday's post, I came across a YouTube vid that I just have to share. It's a three year old boy called Samuel Chelpka, who has memorised Billy Collins's poem “Litany”: Gorgeous, isn't it? And what great parents, to have taught their child to love poetry this young. If you're wondering what …
Guest Readerings and Workshops for 2011
I'm guest reader at two festivals this year – the Southland Festival of the Arts at the end of April, and Auckland Writers and Readers Festival in May. I'll be running a single-session Reading for Writing workshop in Invercargill on May 1st – I'll post fuller details in the sidebar when they come to hand, or you can …
At last, Island
After many years of trying, two things have finally happened. I've got my drivers’ licence (don't ask) (no, really), and I've had a poem published in Island! For those of you who don't know it, Island is a gorgeous literary journal, published in Tasmania. I've been submitting there for quite a few years, and although …
i.m. Mary Harris, née Kennedy
My grandmother died this morning, just after 1 am. Peacefully, with my eldest cousin and aunt there. She was 104 years old, and so frail you could almost see the sunrise through her. I've written about her quite a bit – she's the one who taught me to read, who made me a poet. Cowarral …
Goodbye CPIT; and OMG, I wrote that?!
As the sharp-eyed among you will notice, the Upcoming Workshops list has gone. That's because the funding for Community Education at CPIT was ‘reviewed’, and cut by 50%. As a result, the ACE department was disbanded at the end of 2010, and so my poetry courses no longer have a home. On the plus side …
A Dark Feathered Art 