Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I know winter feels as though it will never depart, but it will. There are buds just starting to colour on my plum trees, the blackbirds are fighting for territory, and every time I turn around there seems to be another flourish of jonquils. But even more certainly a harbinger of spring-to-come, it is now …
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Coming out way earlier than is usual, the results of the 2015 Kathleen Grattan Award have appeared on the ever-interesting BookSellers news page. A big congratulations to this year’s winner, (drumroll please) … Michael Harlow! Yay! The way OUP have handled the results has varied a bit each year. It used to be quite a strongly guarded secret …
Spring has sprung, the daffodils are dandy, the lambs are leaping and the birds are … um, randy. (Well, they are here at any rate.) Which means it’s time to dust off your poetry-shoes and practice your readings, because the annual Canterbury Poets Collective Poetry in Performance series is upon us once more! (Clicking here will open …
Congratulations to Dunedin's Emma Neale, who has won this year's Kathleen Grattan Award with her collection "The Truth Graden". (Love the name!) She is disgustingly talented, with three poetry collections (Sleeve-Notes, How to Make a Million and Spark) and a couple of well-regarded novels already behind her. Well done Emma! I look forward to getting my …
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A Dark Feathered Art 