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, …
And now it’s time for the third of our three invented forms, created by my mid-week masochists: the Shardling. As I mentioned in the post about E Whetu, all my students for this course really seemed to enjoy forms that make use of a line or lines from another poet. My role was to steer …
Time to dangle another invented form in front of you. For reasons that made sense when I started, and felt like an advanced degree in self-flagellation as the weeks wore on, I ran three separate groups for my Rhyme & Reasons class. The Belissima was the product of cheese before bedtime my Saturday group, and …
A Dark Feathered Art 