Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I’ve been going to post this for a while, but as I’m currently sitting at the table at my mum's place on the edge of Bass Strait, it feels like the appropriate time. All three of the poems I completed last year (and probably a similar number this year, dammit) were PoMFa poems (the Portrait …
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This year, half gone, has worn heavy. A sickness plagued the cattle,and many were lost. A blighthas afflicted the crops –the ears of grain grow sticky and dark and will not ripen. What we have to share, we give, but so many are hungry.When the king left, Father Higbald stripped the hangings and plate from …
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This is a post I was going to … um, post … quite a while ago, but then life overtook me. And then (metaphorically) ran me off the road, and I’ve been trudging my way back to (metaphorical/mental/temporal) civilisation ever since. It comes from discussions with my students about what it means to be a …
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The following is the final draft of the talk I gave for Ink versus Innovation back in August. I don’t go into a huge amount of detail on any one point – four minutes is a lot faster on paper than you think – so for those who are interested, four sources that you might …
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Back in August, I was invited to take part in a gloriously quirky event at WORD – Unpopular Opinions: Ink and Innovation. It’s run by a great organisation called Publica, and the idea is pretty simple: get six people to make an unpopular argument on one side or another of a common topic, and then …
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A Dark Feathered Art 