Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I promise a decent length post quite soon, but I wanted to make sure I put this up. On Sunday night, I took part in an online poetry reading, hosted by International Page and Stage – an organisation set up in Northern Ireland to “bring together poets, writers and spoken word artists locally to make …
A last minute change of venue for tomorrow night’s Counter/Culture Political poetry event – we’re heading east, to Xchange, at 376 Wilsons Road. Apparently they do awesome dumplings. (And I’m told that this is not a euphemism.) I’ve got three poems lined up for tomorrow night, all from the new book. I’ll make a final …
For those who want a sneak peak at a couple of poems from the book: I’m reading at the SIWA/NZSA Political Poetry event at Space Academy, 7-9 pm on August 18th. Woohoo!
Back home again after a quick trip to Wellington, where I was the guest poet at the April NZPS meeting. The whole thing takes place upstairs at the Thistle Inn, which is a gorgeous old building on Mulgrave St. All timber floors and branching corridors and rooms tucked around corners and down passageways. Apparently it’s …
A Dark Feathered Art 