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Posted on 14 February 201914 February 2019

Revisiting Nicky’s house

Got a lovely special delivery the other day – Doesn’t it look fantastic? Yes, but what do Dunedin Scarfie flats have to do with Joanna Preston, Tasmanaut Poet? Quite simply, they’ve included a poem of mine in it: Visit to Nicky’s House. The story goes back a way. I originally wrote the poem for the anthology Under …

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Posted on 30 January 201931 January 2019

time to sing – and enter a competition

Time to wheel out the first of my Pimping the Book competitions for time to sing before the dark. And for this first competition, your task is to write a glosa. What the heck is a glosa? Well, according to my notes from the class I taught in 2015 on Unusual Forms: The glosa (or glose) is an …

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Posted on 23 January 201923 January 2019

Goodbye, Aunt Leaf

I’ve just found out that Mary Oliver is dead. At 83, of lymphoma. Actually she died a week ago, last Thursday 17 January 2019, so I’m late to the news. It feels so strange. She was a poet whose work I love, whose poems I quote often, yet I haven’t bought a book of hers …

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Posted on 14 January 201914 January 2019

HTFIIANYAA?! (or, How On Earth Is It A New Year Already Again??)

I did vaguely plan to do my usual signing off for the year post at the end of December, but then it turned out it was actually January. Not sure how that happened, but there you go. Which does at least spare me the embarrassment of doing a post summing up all the things that I …

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Posted on 13 November 2018

They followed me home on Friday …

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