Yes, today I was the featured guest on Rattle magazine’s weekly Rattlecast podcast. (Episode 351). Regular readers of this blog know that my love of Rattle magazine is deep and of long duration – it’s a great magazine, the monthly Ekphrastic challenge and poetry prompts have give me heaps of new poem ideas, and I’ve …
Joanna Preston interviews Joanna Preston … again
Welcome Joanna, it’s been a while since we last spoke. Yes indeedy. Cripes, is it … ten years?! Actually I think it’s longer than that. Really? Really. It was April 2014. And that’s longer than ten years ago? It is. It was twelve years ago. Crikey! At the time you had just signed on to …
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New Year, New Resolutions for Writers: time to fan-girl (or -boy, or -non-binary)
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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2024 – A year to remember/forget/survive/happen
So here we are again, with the final few hours of the year ticking down. It’s been quite a year. I’m not going to touch on news, current events, politics etc (just take argh as read) – I’ve had to stop listening to roughly half my podcasts for the sake of my emotional wellbeing (you …
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Bad Book Covers
I’ve talked before about bad book titles, but I came across this article on the truly horrible covers for some Wordsworth Classics and decided It Needed To Be Shared More Widely. (Having said that, I found the link on Beattie’s Book Blog, which numbers its subscribers at least an order of magnitude higher than mine …
A Dark Feathered Art 