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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Canterbury Poets

Posted on 26 March 200930 March 2009

Push, and the 2nd installment of the Autumn Readings

Busy night at the MCB  last night. And a good one! First up was the launch of David Gregory's third collection, Push (Black Doris Press, 2008). I'm in a poetry group with David (the infamous "Poots Group"), so many of the poems were familiar to me. But seeing them all together was startling. He's a friend, …

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Posted on 19 March 20096 April 2009

The Autumn 2009 Readings Series is underway

Went to the first of the Autumn Poetry in Performance nights last night – and won the Open Mic! I read "The Messenger", a.k.a. 'The Spoon Poem'. (I'll post the poem on this site after I get it published. Maybe as part of the winter rotation.) It felt good as I read it, but I was …

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Posted on 3 March 20093 March 2009

Autumn, Season of Readings

Well it's that time of year again. The leaves are starting to lose their green (so much for our "long hot summer"!) and shorts and T-shirts have settled into the back of the drawers. And all around Canterbury poets are trying out their voices – standing in front of mirrors, shuffling papers, timing themselves and …

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Upcoming Workshops

How do The English Romantics, Dead Poets, Examining (one of) the Ockhams, Irish Poets, Ekphrastic Poetry in the Gallery and The End of the Line sound? Stay tuned for details …

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