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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: WS Merwin

Posted on 3 December 20191 April 2020

Five weeks looking at dead poets

… and still the [redacted]s keep dying on me! It was bad enough when Mary Oliver died in January. Then WS Merwin and Linda Gregg in March. And then Les Murray (April 29th, although I found out much later). And Stanley Plumly, also in April, who I’d corresponded with from time to time when I …

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Posted on 2 April 200923 April 2009

NaPoWriMo 09 – day 2

The cold, darkening Coming in to roost the flocks of starlings dip and sweep trailing filaments of dusk and then settle in to the weft of trees anchoring night with their feet.     Well once again I've not used the ReadWritePoem prompt, although I'm letting it settle in my mind for tomorrow's effort. This …

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