Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. – Socrates I have now read through all poems at least four times – twice or more yesterday, and twice or more today. It's both better and worse than I feared. Better in that there are …
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. – Abe Fortas Today my sack of poems from the NZPS 2011 International Haiku Competition arrived. This is my first time judging for the NZPS, and I'm feeling a strange surge of pleasurable anticipation. I know from …
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Fascinating weekend. It was great to finally meet lots of people who I've heard of, or even corresponded with for years, but never met face to face before. With a very few exceptions, it was a who's who of New Zealand haiku literature. And on top of that, we had the launch of the third …
Woohoo! Just about time to head off to the opening event in the Haiku Aotearoa 2008 festival/conference/shindig. I'm quite looking forward to everything, although I'm nervous as hell about the bit that I'm running – Saturday, 1:30 to 3:30: "Introduction to Haibun". Not helped by the fact that Cyril Childs – who I consider one …
A Dark Feathered Art 