Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I was sent a link to an interesting couple of articles about book reviewing, and where it can all go so horribly wrong. Start with Jeremiah Chamberlin's preliminary post on the concept of The Good Review. Read it, then come back. I'll wait. (Don't I always?) Then there's Charles Baxter on that classic Amazon-style me-fest, …
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Doing some research for a workshop I'm giving this weekend, I renewed my acquaintance with Tim Love's excellent website. There are heaps of things here – links, lists of exercises, articles, reviews. Some of them – much of the workshop section, for example – are really just notes (possibly useful if you're good at workshops, …
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Lovely news from a friend, Diana Deans – her first book, It matters that we were young together, is being launched in Christchurch on the 27th of this month. She really is a good poet – she's got a delicious sense of humour, and a very good ear (not as common as it should be …
I have a confession to make. I'm a coward. I've been browsing through some other peoples' blogs – specifically, the blogs of some other NZ poets –and getting quite twitchy. You see, I have no litcrit. I can't talk the talk, let alone walk the walk. And, to be honest, the only time I wish …
A Dark Feathered Art 