Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Well that’s it all done and dusted for Poetry Day. I’ve submitted my reports to the organiser (Hi Harley!), given all the entrants a chance to read the winning poems and to select their choice from a shortlist of ten, and sent the swag off to the lucky (and frighteningly-talented) winners. I know there are …
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August is here, robes and ticket-stubs trailing behind it as it stumbles out of the taxi and up the driveway to your door. Today’s word cloud is from Briar Wood’s Rāwahi. This is a gloriously Kiwi word cloud, isn’t it? The Maori words of course anchor it here, but so do the references to other places …
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Some very blatant pimping: I’m putting together two things for this year’s National Poetry Day, which takes place on Friday August 24th. The first, as those of you who visit regularly may have feared, is my own version of the CV2 Two-Day Poem Contest: The 2018 National Poetry Day 24-Hour Poem Competition Yep, that’s right. …
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