Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Let me just start with the thing that matters most: Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank …
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Last night at the CPC we launched the John O'Connor First Book Award – a competition that will see one lucky (and brilliantly talented) Christchurch-based poet have their debut poetry collection published by Sudden Valley Press, with the backing and enthusiastic promotion of the whole Canterbury Poets' Collective.One of the great privileges of being on …
I know winter feels as though it will never depart, but it will. There are buds just starting to colour on my plum trees, the blackbirds are fighting for territory, and every time I turn around there seems to be another flourish of jonquils. But even more certainly a harbinger of spring-to-come, it is now …
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Ah Spring. Season of late frosts, soggy lawns, and poetry. Specifically, the annual Canterbury Poets’ Collective Poetry in Performance readings! Perfectly designed to slot in to your Wednesday evenings from September 26th to November 14th, it’s the longest-running poetry readings series in New Zealand, bringing together a mix of the established, the novice, and the completely …
It’s that time again – Spring, the season of rain, daffodils, blackbirds fighting, lambs gambolling, bud burst, and weekly evictions of starlings from my roof space. And most of all, time for the annual Canterbury Poets’ Collective Poetry in Performance readings. Hooray! For anyone who hasn’t been before, it’s the longest-running poetry readings series in …
A Dark Feathered Art 