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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: writing exercises

Posted on 5 October 20217 October 2021

Introducing … the Shardling

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 …

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Posted on 4 October 202115 February 2022

Introducing … E Whetu

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 …

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Posted on 4 October 20217 October 2021

Introducing … the Belissima

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 …

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Posted on 30 April 202020 April 2020

NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 30

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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Posted on 29 April 202020 April 2020

NaPoWriMo Quarantine Edition – Exercise 29

Today’s exercise is in response to a fascinating poet who was born on this day in 1863, and died on this day exactly seventy years later, in 1933 – the Greek poet,  Constantine Cavafy. The poem I know best of his is one that feels worryingly appropriate in the nouveau-apocalyptic  world we currently find ourselves …

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