Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
My second session with the new Creative Writing course group. (Hi guys!) Today we were looking at the way that rhyme works in modern poetry, so we did the usual theoretical stuff (defining "perfect", "slant", "masculine", "feminine", "light", "eye/sight" and "wrenched" rhymes), using Carol Ann Duffy's Betrothal, Don Paterson's Imperial and Archibald McLeish's Ars Poetica as examples. …
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Yesterday was the final class in my first series of tutoring for CPIT. Good fun! Although got through the material a lot faster than I expected. (Either I'm a brilliant teacher, or they were desperate to get me to shut up and go home...) One of the things that we did – a couple of …
I've pretty much finished my selections for the anthology now. There are a few on the cusp, which will depend on things like how many lines I need to fill at the end of poems that require a second page. So now it's time to think about picking a title. Traditionally, the title comes from …
Well this is a new twist. Eight poems, racing from Stanwell Tops to Mt Ousley (both in Australia), attached to the legs of eight racing pigeons. They even had bodyguards – two other homing pigeons per bird, to try and distract any hungry peregrine falcons. Naturally the press coverage didn't include the poems, or any terribly …
It seems Joanna Lumley has been making an ass of herself. The full story can be found here. The fuss is over comments she wrote in the introduction of Liz Cowley's forthcoming book, A Red Dress. Essentially it's the same old thing – "Oh, modern poetry is too difficult" with a side order of "the rest of it …
A Dark Feathered Art 