Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
A couple of lovely reviews have come out. (Well, one review and a couple of public mentions.) The latest OUP newsletter showcased the three of us OUP authors being longlisted – me for tumble, Siobhan Harvey for Ghosts, and Alexander McKinnon for Come Back to Mona Vale, (which sounds absolutely fascinating!) Yay us! And more …
I got some very lovely news – tumble has been longlisted for the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards! Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com It’s a terrifyingly competitive great looking set of books – Serie Barford’s Sleeping with Stones, Sam Duckor-Jones’s Party Legend, Alison Glenny’s Bird Collector, my stable-mate, Siobhan Harvey’s Ghosts, Dinah Hawken’s Sea-light, …
Spring has sprung, the daffodils are dandy, the lambs are leaping and the birds are … um, randy. (Well, they are here at any rate.) Which means it’s time to dust off your poetry-shoes and practice your readings, because the annual Canterbury Poets Collective Poetry in Performance series is upon us once more! (Clicking here will open …
Big congratulations to Siobhan Harvey, who has won the 2013 Kathleen Grattan Award for the manuscript of her second collection, Nephology for Beginners! The judge this year was Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, who apparently had a field of ninety manuscripts to work his way through. The official announcement was once again made on The Arts on …
A Dark Feathered Art 