Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet
A year ago today, Notre Dame cathedral in Paris caught fire. I know, it feels like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? Nonetheless, it was one year ago. Your task today is to write an erasure or blackout poem about the cathedral and fire, using one of the many news articles about the fire, the post-fire …
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Welcome to day 14. And what else could today’s challenge be other than a sonnet? Usually (but not always) fourteen lines, with some sort of volta (or “turn” – a place where the poem shifts gears in some way) and generally enacting some form of argument or attempt at persuasion. There are other definitions, and …
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As today is the 13th, the subject of today’s exercise is the result of thinking about superstition around the number 13. Apparently it’s so prevalent that a significant number of tall buildings in the USA don’t bother to fit out their thirteenth floors, because they have so much trouble finding tenants. (Can’t remember where I …
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April 12th is the International Day of Human Space Flight, celebrating Yuri Gagarin becoming the first ever human to launch into space, on board Vostok-1. He made a single orbit around planet earth, in a flight lasting 108 minutes from launch to landing. Since 2001, it has also been celebrated as Yuri’s Night: a global celebration …
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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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A Dark Feathered Art 