Here we are at the beginning of the second third of the year. And I had such plans! I was going to have the manuscript of book #3 ready to go out to my readers (err, another month? Or maybe two?), I was going to have all my teaching for 2026 booked and ready (umm…), …
NZ NaPoWriMo – it’s on again!
Yes, because many many many people have been asking me, with a mixture of hope and desperation in their eyes, if I’m going to be running this again … once again I will be running an NZ NaPoWriMo season. There are loads of free sites hosting NaPoWriMo online, so you very definitely don’t need to …
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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Poetry workshop in Dunedin – this weekend!
Planning some future tumble-related events
I’m slowly starting to return to some sort of normality. I’ve got a lovely sheaf of gold stickers to put on the copies in my stash, my pink trophy has been shown off to various poetry friends, and for my office I have a gorgeous big framed print of the book cover with the certificate …
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