Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I’ve just finished teaching a five week course based (heavily) on Don Paterson’s Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: a new commentary (and the amazing iPad app that goes with it – god I love that thing!). I’ve written about it before, and how much I enjoy his style of commentary – intelligent, engaged, but definitely a bit …
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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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Hard to believe the year is nearly over. Feels much longer. And much shorter. So much has happened. So much lost. We did the Cathedral walkway last weekend – a friend who has already done it commented tat it was a bit like being told someone had died and then being shown the bed they’d …
A Dark Feathered Art 