Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Thank you to those who took part in the competition – Wendy, Gail and Vicky. I loved the use you made of my lines! And it was great to see people engaging with the form – the only way a new form will ever gain traction is if people use it, so students, you can …
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I got some very lovely news – tumble has been longlisted for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards! Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com It’s a terrifyingly competitive great looking set of books – Serie Barford’s Sleeping with Stones, Sam Duckor-Jones’s Party Legend, Alison Glenny’s Bird Collector, my stable-mate, Siobhan Harvey’s Ghosts, Dinah Hawken’s Sea-light, …
Thank you to those who entered the glosa competition – wow! I love what each of you did with the lines you chose, and I’m guessing you had fun doing it. (I hope so, at least!) Picking a winner was tricky, but in the end I’m going with Jac Jenkins’ wired – I think it …
I did vaguely plan to do my usual signing off for the year post at the end of December, but then it turned out it was actually January. Not sure how that happened, but there you go. Which does at least spare me the embarrassment of doing a post summing up all the things that I …
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With just on 24 hours to register, I’m wondering if I should run a CV2-inspired competition for National Poetry Day. Post a set of words at midnight, and then give people just 24 hours to write and submit a poem using all of them. See if I can wangle a few bucks from the official …
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A Dark Feathered Art 