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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Andrew Marvell

Posted on 4 May 2012

Armitage, Astronauts, and Archibald MacLeish

Oh lordy. It was about this time last year that I started writing a poem based on another poem, with one eye towards finally having an entry for the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize (theme this year: gold). Last year my effort ballooned into the monster finally known as “Fare”, and swallowed three months of my life. …

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Posted on 31 January 2012

Tuesday Poem – ‘To His Bibliophilic Wife’

for Stewart Had we shelf-space enough, and time, This gluttony, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and read away The afternoons of our love’s long day; You, by the fickle muse’s side Through Poetry stroll; I, in the tide Of Comedians’ Biographies drift. We would Build ourselves an ark of Fantasy, and flood The kitchen-cum-dining …

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Posted on 29 November 2011

Poem – John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till …

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Upcoming Workshops

Dunedin Poetry Workshop
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November, 2022
11:00am–2:00pm
Cost: $50

supported by Otago University Press

Jump-start the Muse
Saturday 3, 10 & 17 December 2022
10 am to 1 pm
South Library
Christchurch
Cost: $45

repeated online via Zoom
Sunday 4, 11 & 18, 2022
10 am to 1 pm
Cost: $45

supported by Christchurch City Council Creative Communities Fund

See Current Classes page for details!

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