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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Rattle

Posted on 14 January 201914 January 2019

HTFIIANYAA?! (or, How On Earth Is It A New Year Already Again??)

I did vaguely plan to do my usual signing off for the year post at the end of December, but then it turned out it was actually January. Not sure how that happened, but there you go. Which does at least spare me the embarrassment of doing a post summing up all the things that I …

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Posted on 27 December 201727 December 2017

Signing off for 2017

Another year, another set of domestic disasters, rejections, frustrations, minor triumphs and bursts of silliness. Oh, and some poetry too. It all began really well, with winning the January Rattle Ekphrastic competition. I still like the poem too, which is good. (And not always the way these things unpack). But then I failed completely to …

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Posted on 1 March 20171 March 2017

Hooray for Rattle (without the Shake and Roll)

A lovely bit of news – I’ve been selected as the Editor’s Choice in the latest iteration of the Rattle Monthly Ekphrastic Challenge! Hooray! And what makes it even sweeter is that it was the first poem I managed to write this year, so I’m choosing to take it as an omen of Good Writing …

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Upcoming Workshops

Dunedin Poetry Workshop
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November, 2022
11:00am–2:00pm
Cost: $50

supported by Otago University Press

Jump-start the Muse
Saturday 3, 10 & 17 December 2022
10 am to 1 pm
South Library
Christchurch
Cost: $45

repeated online via Zoom
Sunday 4, 11 & 18, 2022
10 am to 1 pm
Cost: $45

supported by Christchurch City Council Creative Communities Fund

See Current Classes page for details!

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