Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
I’m slowly starting to return to some sort of normality. I’ve got a lovely sheaf of gold stickers to put on the copies in my stash, my pink trophy has been shown off to various poetry friends, and for my office I have a gorgeous big framed print of the book cover with the certificate …
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And now it’s time for the third of our three invented forms, created by my mid-week masochists: the Shardling. As I mentioned in the post about E Whetu, all my students for this course really seemed to enjoy forms that make use of a line or lines from another poet. My role was to steer …
Time to dangle another invented form in front of you. For reasons that made sense when I started, and felt like an advanced degree in self-flagellation as the weeks wore on, I ran three separate groups for my Rhyme & Reasons class. The Belissima was the product of cheese before bedtime my Saturday group, and …
Just finished teaching a series of classes looking at formal poetry. It’s been quite a lot of fun, even if I did manage to cock up the handouts. Repeatedly. (Sigh!) Oh well, doing everything online meant I could just make my (multiple) corrections to the master document and flick a new pdf to everyone right …
You’ve made it – all the way through April. Whether you’ve managed to write a poem every day this month, or tried to, or just thought about it, well done. Today, you will be writing a cento – a poem made up entirely of lines borrowed from other poems. And not just any cento – to …
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A Dark Feathered Art 