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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Archibald Macleish

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 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

R4W: Odyssey by Anthology

Our annual look back at the previous year via the lens of The Best American Poetry, The Best Canadian Poetry in English and The Forward Book of Poetry.

A combination of discussion and writing exercises, suitable for all levels. And now with three venues!

For full details of all this year’s classes, see Classes for 2021 for information or Current Classes to enrol.

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