Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Hooray, tonight is the beginning of reading from MY NEW COLLECTION!!! Ahem. Excuse the caps. I may be just a tiny bit excited. No, make that: thrilled, relieved, happy, hopeful, and grateful. I’ve spent the last week or so going through everything aloud and working out timings, and trying to decide which poems to read. …
Yes, it’s that time of year again – the sap is flowing, the garden is rioting, the blackbirds are going bonkers, and the Canterbury Poets’ Collective annual Poetry in Performance readings series is just around the corner. Once again, Covid and the general Bosheit of the universe ( it sounds funkier in German) has meant …
Yes, we finally have a lineup that is as settled as Covid19 and the general mischievousness of the universe will permit. As I type this, we still aren’t entirely sure what level of pandemic protocol we will be trying to go forward under – so just in case some late breaking events throw a spanner …
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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