Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Yep, that’s it – I’ve finally selected my winners for the 2013 Takahē Poetry competition. It feels like it’s taken me a very long time, but I’m satisfied with my choices. (I’d better be – I’ve submitted my report and sent the entries back to the competition secretary!)Picking the two runners-up was actually the hardest. …
Continue reading "Veni, legim, placuit – I came, I read, I decided"
It’s strange, how the approach changes as you move through the stages of judging. The first read-through was all about being open and not especially critical. Looking for reasons to say ‘yes!’, and only dismissing things that really were pretty bad. Then you move into the critical phase (whittling down), where you start being über …
Continue reading "Dubito Ergo Iudicio – I doubt, therefore I judge"
It’s this time of the year when I usually do a private overview of what I’ve managed to achieve over the previous twelve months. So it’s spookily appropriate that David Howard asked me to provide a “career overview” in thirteen poems and associated comments for the Truck poetry blog, where he is guest editor this …
Continue reading "A status update (but not in a facebooky way)"
A Dark Feathered Art 