Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
This week’s word cloud is made from the Contents pages of Elizabeth Smither’s lovely Night Horse, which took out Best Poetry Collection at this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. (The colours of the cloud are taken from the book cover, because I like to play with that sort of thing.) And while it’s true that you …
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To help you warm up for the 24-Hour Poem Competition, I thought I’d give you a weekly word-cloud to contemplate. Who knows, maybe it’ll even get you writing something. This week it’s made up of words from the competition blurb. In coming weeks I’ll give you clouds made from the contents pages of the five …
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Some very blatant pimping: I’m putting together two things for this year’s National Poetry Day, which takes place on Friday August 24th. The first, as those of you who visit regularly may have feared, is my own version of the CV2 Two-Day Poem Contest: The 2018 National Poetry Day 24-Hour Poem Competition Yep, that’s right. …
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With just on 24 hours to register, I’m wondering if I should run a CV2-inspired competition for National Poetry Day. Post a set of words at midnight, and then give people just 24 hours to write and submit a poem using all of them. See if I can wangle a few bucks from the official …
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I had a ball in Dunedin. The event was technically a sellout (well, a book-out), and there was a really great vibe in the room. I suspect I waffled on a bit too much, but that's an occupational hazard. No-one seemed in danger of losing the will to live, so I count that as a …
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A Dark Feathered Art 