Yes, today I was the featured guest on Rattle magazine’s weekly Rattlecast podcast. (Episode 351). Regular readers of this blog know that my love of Rattle magazine is deep and of long duration – it’s a great magazine, the monthly Ekphrastic challenge and poetry prompts have give me heaps of new poem ideas, and I’ve …
Falling in love (still/more/again) with teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnets
I’ve just finished teaching a five week course based (heavily) on Don Paterson’s Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: a new commentary (and the amazing iPad app that goes with it – god I love that thing!). I’ve written about it before, and how much I enjoy his style of commentary – intelligent, engaged, but definitely a bit …
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Holy [insert preferred rhyme], we (by which I mean you) actually did it!
Let me just start with the thing that matters most: Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank …
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Poetry workshop in Dunedin – this weekend!
To CPC or not CPC? (CPC. Definitely CPC)
Yes, it’s that time of year again – the sap is flowing, the garden is rioting, the blackbirds are going bonkers, and the Canterbury Poets’ Collective annual Poetry in Performance readings series is just around the corner. Once again, Covid and the general Bosheit of the universe ( it sounds funkier in German) has meant …
A Dark Feathered Art 