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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: close reading

Posted on 6 March 2018

And signing back in again

Welcome to 2018. (Yes I know it’s been underway a while. I was giving it all time to make sure it was actually the new year happening, and not just 2017 in a loop.) As you will notice, the website has had a bit of a refurb. Hopefully you like what you see. A change …

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Posted on 24 November 2016

Free session – An Introduction to Close Reading

As a final little flourish before we all pack things up for the year, I’m offering a free short seminar-style class immediately after the final session of Reading for Writing on December 3rd – an Introduction to Close Reading, focusing exclusively on Don Paterson’s poem Imperial. I talk a bit about the practice of close reading on my …

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Posted on 5 December 20115 December 2011

Poetry Workshops for Summer 2012

After a certain amount of deliberation (ok, not that much), I’m offering two poetry workshops for the Summer – a Billy Collins Weekend, and a Poetic Endings Masterclass. The Billy Collins Weekend – Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd January – will be a Reading for Writing class, where we’ll look exclusively at Billy Collins poems. …

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Posted on 29 March 201025 March 2010

Reading, Writing, and Good Intentions

Well that's Reading for Writing all done for term one. I've had a ball – I hope my students did too. (I guess that will become apparent when I get the signups for the term two classes …) The thing that amazed me was how happy everyone seemed to be to do the close reading …

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Posted on 21 June 200921 June 2009

site update – Commentaries posted

If you look right below the header image, you'll see that a new page has appeared – Commentaries! Yes, I've finally managed to get around to formatting some of my close readings and putting them up. I hope to be able to post quite a lot more of these. I really enjoy getting in to …

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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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