Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
Well it’s been an insane year, and doesn’t look like returning to sanity any time soon. I’m still oscillating back and forward between elation and terror about having my new book out in the world – joy at the thing existing, and being out of my hands and making its way on its own. But …
Hooray, tonight is the beginning of reading from MY NEW COLLECTION!!! Ahem. Excuse the caps. I may be just a tiny bit excited. No, make that: thrilled, relieved, happy, hopeful, and grateful. I’ve spent the last week or so going through everything aloud and working out timings, and trying to decide which poems to read. …
A last minute change of venue for tomorrow night’s Counter/Culture Political poetry event – we’re heading east, to Xchange, at 376 Wilsons Road. Apparently they do awesome dumplings. (And I’m told that this is not a euphemism.) I’ve got three poems lined up for tomorrow night, all from the new book. I’ll make a final …
For those who want a sneak peak at a couple of poems from the book: I’m reading at the SIWA/NZSA Political Poetry event at Space Academy, 7-9 pm on August 18th. Woohoo!
A Dark Feathered Art 