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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Posted on 16 July 2012

Turns, Endings, and The Point of High Windows

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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Posted on 18 February 201118 February 2011

The Editing Masterclass is Go!

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 …

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Posted on 12 January 2011

Goodbye CPIT; and OMG, I wrote that?!

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 …

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Posted on 31 July 201030 July 2010

Cinquains – for pleasure and profit

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: …

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Posted on 27 June 201027 June 2010

Courses for CPIT Term Three

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. …

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Upcoming Workshops

How do The English Romantics, Dead Poets, Examining (one of) the Ockhams, Irish Poets, Ekphrastic Poetry in the Gallery and The End of the Line sound? Stay tuned for details …

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