Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I spent pretty much all of Monday getting the proof copies out so that all the contributors can check their poems. It's a simple enough job, but it always takes sooooooooo much longer than I expect. Even when, like this year, I'm mostly sending out pdf proofs by email rather than posting paper copies. My …
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I love the Olympics. I know it's "not done" in a lot of circles, but I love them. There's something wonderful about watching people excel. People fulfilling their potential. And heartbreaking about watching people try, and fail. But even then it's a good reminder of how fleeting and ephemeral perfection is. I was living in Sydney …
It's interesting to listen to writers on the subject of Creative Writing courses – not just MAs, MPhils, and MFAs, but the generic Creative Writing 101 course, offered by your local Community College or equivalent. So many writers, publishers, and critics will get themselves completed knotted up about the whole concept. Why? The usual reasons …
Well we now have a title: I've gone with Before the Sirocco. It's a lovely evocative title, and I think does a good job of catching the mood of the poems. So many this year are ... well, almost despairing. Sad, angry, regretful, passionate, rueful. Appropriate poems for a planet in trouble? Nothing overtly greenie, …
I've pretty much finished my selections for the anthology now. There are a few on the cusp, which will depend on things like how many lines I need to fill at the end of poems that require a second page. So now it's time to think about picking a title. Traditionally, the title comes from …
A Dark Feathered Art 