Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Wednesday 11 May from 7pmThere are several ways you can join the proceedings virtually on the night. A professional technical crew will be filming and livestreaming the ceremony at Auckland’s Q Theatre, and you can pick up the feed on our Facebook page and the Ockhams YouTube channel, from 7pm on Wednesday. New Zealand Book Award Trust chair Nicola Legat …
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I've tried typing this opening paragraph about forty times now, and keep having to delete it as too twee, or too glib, or too loopy, or too incoherent … so here it is, very simply: tumble has made the shortlist of the 2022 Mary & Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockhams. (Sorry – …
A couple of lovely reviews have come out. (Well, one review and a couple of public mentions.) The latest OUP newsletter showcased the three of us OUP authors being longlisted – me for tumble, Siobhan Harvey for Ghosts, and Alexander McKinnon for Come Back to Mona Vale, (which sounds absolutely fascinating!) Yay us! And more …
I got some very lovely news – tumble has been longlisted for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards! Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com It’s a terrifyingly competitive great looking set of books – Serie Barford’s Sleeping with Stones, Sam Duckor-Jones’s Party Legend, Alison Glenny’s Bird Collector, my stable-mate, Siobhan Harvey’s Ghosts, Dinah Hawken’s Sea-light, …
Well it’s been an insane year, and doesn’t look like returning to sanity any time soon. I’m still oscillating back and forward between elation and terror about having my new book out in the world – joy at the thing existing, and being out of my hands and making its way on its own. But …
A Dark Feathered Art 