Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Welcome to day 28 – Proper Sonnet Day! For today, I want you to write a sonnet about realising that you were in love. It doesn’t have to be romantic love – a child? A favourite teacher? Your most beloved favour of icecream? Whatever. The crucial thing is that your poem should start with you …
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Welcome to day 14. And what else could today’s challenge be other than a sonnet? Usually (but not always) fourteen lines, with some sort of volta (or “turn” – a place where the poem shifts gears in some way) and generally enacting some form of argument or attempt at persuasion. There are other definitions, and …
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A Dark Feathered Art 