Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Hooray, I’ve just written my first poem for the year! (Yes, I know it’s February already – return your gaze to the post title for a moment. See? I realise it may seem as though I create the titles first and then organise my life – or at least my posting schedule – to follow …
Continue reading "And so the year begins (… better late than never)"
(Originally I was going to add the word “sky” to the title of this post, but I like the possibilities suggested without it.) In an interesting bit of co-incidence, it’s just been announced that 4300 square kilometres of the MacKenzie Basin has been declared a Dark Sky Reserve – the biggest in the world. How …
I'm beginning to worry that I have lost the ability to just write a poem. Yesterday I was supposed to be working on a poem that I've had in my "working on it" file since 2009. It's a nice piece, and is going in interesting directions. Reading Lynn Davidson's Common Land (I’m reviewing it for Takahē) …
Oh lordy. It was about this time last year that I started writing a poem based on another poem, with one eye towards finally having an entry for the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize (theme this year: gold). Last year my effort ballooned into the monster finally known as “Fare”, and swallowed three months of my life. …
Continue reading "Armitage, Astronauts, and Archibald MacLeish"
for Stewart Had we shelf-space enough, and time, This gluttony, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and read away The afternoons of our love’s long day; You, by the fickle muse’s side Through Poetry stroll; I, in the tide Of Comedians’ Biographies drift. We would Build ourselves an ark of Fantasy, and flood The kitchen-cum-dining …
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