Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
An oldie but a goodie, from Rita Dove via Robin Behn & Chase Twitchell’s The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach – one of the first books I ever bought online, and one I still go back to. As I do to this exercise. The Ten Minute Spill Write a ten line poem that …
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Lets start with a quote from the late Terry Pratchett, that quite neatly sums this post up: Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs, and then you had the urge to pass it on.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather And there’s the problem. Since …
Noah’s Daughters When he said we must cut off our hair, we said nothing. We’d already stripped the house of its timbers – the rooms' painted skins sagging inwards, membranes that swelled with the wind, the emptied lungs of some mythological beast, drowning in our heavy air. This is another one that I’ll add to the …
A Dark Feathered Art 