Tag: graham nunn
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Sad news
Today I came across some sad news. My friend and mentor, Graham Nunn, has been accused of a serious wrongdoing – plagiarism. I don’t know all the details and I am not trying to speak for him. Nor excuse what he has done, should the worst be confirmed. But I do want to speak to…
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An Introduction to Haiku – Compositional Techniques 2
Sense Switching “Sense switching” is a great technique for surprising and delighting the reader. A haiku poet might use it to engage the reader by introducing something unexpected in the poem or to connect two seemingly unrelated events or images. You can do this through careful placement of information across the phrase and fragment. Here,…
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Another new book in the pipeline
Very excited to read this great news from one of my favourite poets! & check out the awesome poem while you’re there.
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Third Australian Haiku Anthology
One of Australia’s best known haiku publications, paper wasp is a quarterly out of Queensland, Australia, and one which is open to submissions worldwide. They’ve always published great haiku (and related forms) from not only Australia’s best-known haiku poets but newer writers too, and I’ve been lucky enough to join all of those writers in…
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between giants – blog launch – day five
Welcome to the last day of my blog launch! It’s been five days of poetry, poetry, poetry and I’m grateful to everyone who visited, commented, contacted me or ordered the book, and I’m most definitely grateful to Graham, Jane, Robbie and Mark, along with Alec Patric and also Stephen Matthews from Ginninderra Press whose fantastic…
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between giants – blog launch – day four
Next up is a double hit of audio, on the second last day of the blog launch, with ‘Stillness’ performed by Robbie Coburn and ‘St Mark’s Square’ read by Mark William Jackson. Check them out below Poet and performer Robbie’s first poetry collection, Human Batteries, both eloquent and experimental, was released just last year and…
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between giants – blog launch – day three
The next performance from between giants is of ‘Now in the Night,’ by Tasmanian poet Jane Williams. Jane is the author of five poetry volumes and a short story collection, her latest being City of Possibilities, which is an exciting mix of verse and haibun, but here’s one of my favourite pieces from an earlier…
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between giants – blog launch – day two
To open the launch, I’m thrilled to have Graham Nunn reading ‘Man About Town’ from between giants for the first performance. Click below to listen Graham is the author of six books of poetry, including one of my absolute favourites, Ocean Hearted and his latest, the beautiful The First 30 and Other Poems which details…
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