Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet, Editor and Creative Writing Tutor
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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And now it’s time for the third of our three invented forms, created by my mid-week masochists: the Shardling. As I mentioned in the post about the Whetu, all my students for this course really seemed to enjoy forms that make use of a line or lines from another poet. My role was to steer …
Time to dangle another invented form in front of you. For reasons that made sense when I started, and felt like an advanced degree in self-flagellation as the weeks wore on, I ran three separate groups for my Rhyme & Reasons class. The Belissima was the product of cheese before bedtime my Saturday group, and …
First, the anthology: Yes indeedy, the anthology of poems from ten-years-worth of my poetry classes is finally here. Isn‘t it lovely? The cover was designed by Kate Rennie, who is also one of the (37!) contributors. We’re having the official launch at Tūranga, 5.30pm to 7.30pm on the evening of Thursday September 24th and will be …
Below is a block of text, purloined from Wordsworth (whose deathiversary today is), and warped through multiple retranslations into a variety of languages and then back into English. Ponder the weirdness of it, and then use it to leap off into a new poem of your own. You aren’t trying to restore the original – …
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A Dark Feathered Art 