Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I don’t think it’s possible to be a writer – let alone a poet – if you aren’t in love with language. So this is the first of what will be a number of word-based exercises. Today‘s task is to write a poem that explores a word (or phrase) that exists in another language, …
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Halfway point! By now some of you may well be feeling despair at ever getting it done. I hear you: I too have felt this pain, and it’s why I switched to running a competition rather than entering one. (Although this year’s issues have called that choice into question as well …) Persist! Courage! You’ll …
Here we are, a mere twenty-four hours away from the competition kicking off for the second time. I’ve had the list of words ready to go for a wee while now, but have had all sorts of weird dreams about people trying various nefarious methods of sneaking an advance look – remember how last year …
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I’m typing this a mere fistful of hours before the insanity of the 24 Hour Poem competition gets underway, while contemplating the awesome agglomeration of words that I’ve gleaned from the five books up for grabs. At this point it may be worth mentioning that I got very little sleep last night, as I kept …
Way back in December last year, as I was first wallowing in the delights of Canadian poetry and checking out the magazines that had published poems I particularly enjoyed, I came across something that sounded interesting: the Contemporary Verse 2 Two-Day Poem Competition. Very simple – you sign up, and at midnight on the first day of …
A Dark Feathered Art 