Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
And yet again, it’s ekphrastic time! Hooray! Today’s image is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and their wonderful online collection. I’m a little obsessed at the moment with their 15th Century Netherlandish genre paintings – there’s just something about them that really grabs me. Hopefully you will also feel the attraction. I’ve given you …
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And once again, it’s time for an ekphrastic poem. (Yep, it’s fertile ground, and I’m tilling away.) This is an exercise I first gave my students last year for one of our Poetry & Science classes. There are four image snippets that you’ll be looking at, hidden under the buttons marked One, Two, Three and Four. …
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Time for another ekphrastic poem. Today’s exercise takes its inspiration from UA Fanthorpe’s poem “Not My Best Side”, which in turn responds to Paolo Uccello’s quite strange painting, St George and the Dragon. What I love about Fanthorpe’s poem is the way it takes the three different viewpoints – the dragon, the maiden, and St George …
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Time for our first ekphrastic poem – a poem based on a piece of (usually visual) art. There are loads of ways you can do this – from simple description, to addressing the artwork’s subject; from an imagined conversation with the artist, to a dramatising of the artwork’s creation; or a leap into philosophy, or …
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A lovely bit of news – I’ve been selected as the Editor’s Choice in the latest iteration of the Rattle Monthly Ekphrastic Challenge! Hooray! And what makes it even sweeter is that it was the first poem I managed to write this year, so I’m choosing to take it as an omen of Good Writing …
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A Dark Feathered Art 