Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet, Editor and Creative Writing Tutor
Yesterday my publisher sent me the list of where copies of The Summer King are being sent for review. Scary stuff! We had quite a long email conversation a couple of months ago about where it would be worth sending to. It was a depressing conversation – the number of places that routinely run poetry …
Continue reading "Bookmooch, book-guilt and voracious reading"
I've always wondered what this would feel like. I went out to collect the mail, and found a small package in the mailbox – my book, back from the printers! My real, actual, physical, touchable, super-shiny BOOK! (Colour balance in the photo is a bit off – glossy cover and all that. But still!) I …
At the moment I'm running around trying to get things finalised for the launch of The Summer King. Lots and lots of promo things. I've just had a group of poems from the collection selected to appear on an Italian poetry site, Fiera Lingue, run by Anny Ballardini. It's well worth a look – poets from …
I'm behind the times again. (Being sick for a week will do that to you.) Carol Ann Duffy has offered her first official poem as UK Poet Laureate, called "Politics", and it's a cracker – read it here. (In case you're wondering where the title of this post comes from, it's from Prof. John Sutherland's commentary …
I posted earlier about Saving Poetry Publishers and also the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. If you've been following the comments, you'll be aware of a good point raised by Tim Jones: that the fees for entering a book in the Awards may be prohibitive for small publishers. This is the current fee structure: …
A Dark Feathered Art 