Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I'm currently devouring a new book, Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns. My god, it’s good. It's based on an idea that I've just started exploring from a properly theoretical point of view, (although I’ve mentioned a variation in an earlier post) – deliberate, formal ways of opening a poem out beyond itself. So far …
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Hooray, enough people want to attend my Editing Masterclass! There are still a couple of places left, if you've been umming and ahhing. Those who are interested in the course but don't have a poem they want worked on, that's fine too – the course is about the process more than the product. Last possible …
As the sharp-eyed among you will notice, the Upcoming Workshops list has gone. That's because the funding for Community Education at CPIT was ‘reviewed’, and cut by 50%. As a result, the ACE department was disbanded at the end of 2010, and so my poetry courses no longer have a home. On the plus side …
Ok, maybe not the profit part. But Wednesday was the first session of the POET105: Jump-Starting the Muse poetry workshop at CPIT, and one of the challenges I gave them was the cinquain. Like haiku, it's a form that most people get taught a fairly dodgey version of while at school. (Personally I blame maths: …
As you may have noticed, I've put up the list of poetry courses for next term at CPIT. There are three on offer, and the blurbs are below. Clicking on this link will take you to the downloadable enrollment form. If you are interested in attending one, PLEASE don't leave it until the last minute to enroll. …
A Dark Feathered Art 