I'm mainly blogging about this on my haibun blog, but I figured a reference here would be appropriate. Or opportune. Or something. I now have copies of Four Tellings: A Haibun Sequence available for sale. It's a nice basic little chapbook – 22pg, saddle stapled, B&W cover. NZ$6 within New Zealand, or NZ$7 for airmail postage …
Sonnets for SIWA – the results
Well it's all done and dusted now. Results have been handed out, winners cheered and others given their "short, helpful comments" from the judge. Who were the winners? (Drumroll please) 1st: Elizabeth Robertson, "My father is never lonely", Runner-up: Shirley Eng, "A Bicycle sonnet", Commended: Janice Healey, "Water! Right!", and Mary Fitzgerald, "Post Spring Song". …
booklaunch – Tusiata Avia’s “Bloodclot”
Last night I went to the launch of Tusiata Avia's second collection, "Bloodclot". It was a good launch – a bit of a who's-who of the female portion of the Christchurch literary scene. Held upstairs in the Debating Chamber at Our City O-Tautahi, (which used to be the Christchurch Tourist Information Centre when I first visited Christchurch). The …
Sonnets for SIWA – part II: the deliberation
Well I'm making my final choices in the SIWA sonnet competition. It's been quite interesting. Encouraging in some ways, discouraging in others. My worry when I first sat down with the packet of entries was that I would be confronted with entry after entry in stilted, forced rhyme. Or bad pastiches of Keats, or Donne. …
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Happy Holidays!
A Dark Feathered Art will be on holidays until mid January 2009, when we will return with thoughts on sonnets, judging and writing groups, as well as the usual waffle on books and writing in general ... Thanks for reading, and have a great holiday! Joanna
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