Joanna Preston re-interviews Joanna Preston Today, once again, I’ll be interviewing poet, editor, chicken-keeper, creative writing tutor and masochistic glutton-for-punishment, Joanna Preston. Joanna, good morning. Good morning, Joanna. Lovely to be here again. Love what you’ve done with the curtains. I haven’t done anything with the curtains. I know. This is the way I love …
The trouble with … giving feedback
One of the things that people ask me quite often in workshops is Why don’t editors give feedback (more often)? And it’s a peril of editing that I feel inclined to waffle about today. But first, a quote to put us all in the right frame of mind: The only thing to do with good advice …
Fame! Fortune! Book tokens!
Continuing in the same theme, (you know, the one where I have my takahē editor’s hat rammed down so firmly over my ears that the brim is level with my earlobes) this is your reminder that the 2014 takahē Poetry Competition is closing soon (eek, in just a week!) and that you need to get your best …
Takahē and L’esprit de l’escalier
Well it is now well and truly out in the open – yes, I am the new Poetry Editor at Takahē magazine. The official outing was an interview I did with the way-too-easy-to-talk-to Wallace Chapman, on his Sunday Morning show on Radio New Zealand National. (Those of you who feel curious about it can listen …
Joanna Preston Interviews … Joanna Preston
Today I’ll be interviewing poet, editor, chicken-lover— —Er, can we please be clear that that is ‘lover’ in the sense of ‘being very keen on, but not at all in a sexual sense’ please? Yes, of course. Let me see. Poet, editor, chicken-keeper —is that ok? Yes, thank you, much better. I already get quite …
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A Dark Feathered Art 