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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Ian Wedde

Posted on 29 August 2013

Awards! (Other people’s!) and a Competition!

Last night the 2013 NZ Post Book Awards were announced, with The Darling North by Anne Kennedy taking out Best Book of Poetry, and Helen Heath’s Graft taking out Best First Book of Poetry. Well done Anne and Helen! The open was a really interesting field – the judges decided they couldn’t only shortlist three, …

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Posted on 22 November 200927 November 2009

Kathleen Grattan Award 2009

News just to hand (well, gleaned from listening to The Arts on Sunday, so apologies if I've made a mistake) – judged this year by Ian Wedde, the 2009 Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry has gone to … Auckland poet, Leigh Davis, for Stunning Debut of the Repairing of a Life, a book length poem written …

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Posted on 3 March 20093 March 2009

Autumn, Season of Readings

Well it's that time of year again. The leaves are starting to lose their green (so much for our "long hot summer"!) and shorts and T-shirts have settled into the back of the drawers. And all around Canterbury poets are trying out their voices – standing in front of mirrors, shuffling papers, timing themselves and …

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Upcoming Workshops

How do The English Romantics, Dead Poets, Examining (one of) the Ockhams, Irish Poets, Ekphrastic Poetry in the Gallery and The End of the Line sound? Stay tuned for details …

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