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a dark feathered art joanna preston tasmanaut poet editor and creative writing tutor skip to content a dark feathered art joanna preston tasmanaut poet editor and creative writing tutor menu about biography media books tumble the summer king time to sing before the dark broken lines in charcoal blog poems gloves a guide for students the pride of lions a guide for students commentaries about close reading pascale petit mirador imtiaz dharker its face rhian gallagher the walnut tree karen zelas in camera gail ingram the kitchen workshops workshops for 2026 current poetry classes a list of workshops past scroll down to content welcome to the website and blog of joanna preston tasmanaut poet editor and freelance creative writing tutor poems a sample of poems from my first two books and one from the collection in progress please contact me first if you want to copy them or print them out or use them in some way i will almost always say yes but there are some situations where i will not if nothing else i d love to know where the poems are finding their readers enjoy hysteria says the magazine he looks up from claims one passenger on average every couple of hundred flights my fears are stowed in the overhead locker clenched in zippered teeth jet fuel is twenty percent lighter than water and burns at eight hundred degrees the magazine man tells me and laughs smelling of barbecue sauce there s a stain the shape of africa on his tie which tells me that no woman loves him long distance commercial passenger flights typically cruise at nine hundred k s three quarters the speed of a bullet victorian ladies pursed pins in their lips when travelling through railway tunnels to guard against strangers trying to kiss them in the dark the grass beside the runway is sparse and straggly like his hair taxiing now it feels like late summer afternoons in the old ute bumping along the river flat with a bale of hay in the back he s speaking again but i keep my eyes on the road ahead published in landfall galanthus in rain soft rain bends the necks of winter flowers penitents in white veils and green blouses meek beneath the copper beech that towers like a magistrate and all my powers of persuasion cannot alter how this grim gallows verdict falls you are now hers shapeless as salt water thirty hours since you left who knew we were such cowards good wine set aside until it sours the house fills with rain and i allow this published in tumble oup 2021 lydia of the lace doilies of course she always had hordes of lovers so whenever i saw her fat and placid termite queen of the nursing home i imagined her naked lying on a bed of animal fur small moustachioed men smelling of horses and sweat and woodsmoke taking turns to lose themselves in her plump white breasts her eyes closed her full blown rose lips parting and unparting published in the summer king oup 2009 commentaries other people s poems close readings analyses and poem commentaries to paraphrase owen marshall if you want to know the time look at the clock s face if you want to know how a clock works you have to take the back off and that s what close reading is taking the time to try and work out what a poem is doing and how drinking it in learnings its secrets wandering around the poem s rooms and rumaging through its drawers continue reading commentaries workshops welcome to the poetry class since 2010 i ve been running poetry workshops as a freelance creative writing tutor below is a basic outline of what to expect in each type of workshop a sample of the things i regularly offer join the poetry class mailing list and be first to hear when new classes open to see what classes are currently being offered click here to enrol in a current class click here to be added to the poetry class mailing list click here to learn more about the sorts of poetry classes i offer in general read on i am available to run poetry or general creative writing classes for writers groups festivals and private individuals and can tailor a workshop to your specific needs continue reading workshops blog posted on 2 june 2026 the people have spoken classes for winter 2026 i set up a poll to find out what my prospective students were most interested in me offering during the winter complete with lots of options and a chance to rank things and yes indeed the people spoke and what they ve said is a resounding _ ツ _ essentially the most popular answer across all permutations continue reading the people have spoken classes for winter 2026 posted on 19 may 2026 bobbing on the meniscus is a fairly crap pun but at least gives me something to put in as a title and an excuse to use this gorgeous toni frissell photo ahem this is just a quick and dirty post to say that yay portrait of my father as a racing yacht the pomfaa poem i wrote about way continue reading bobbing on the meniscus posted on 1 may 2026 another month another month here we are at the beginning of the second third of the year and i had such plans i was going to have the manuscript of book 3 ready to go out to my readers err another month or maybe two i was going to have all my teaching for 2026 booked and ready umm continue reading another month another month search for search copyright except where otherwise noted all text on this site is copyright joanna preston 2026 and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission from the author don t make me hunt you down email preston dot joanna at gmail dot com website powered by wordpress com subscribe subscribed a dark feathered art join 221 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy a dark feathered art subscribe subscribed sign up log in copy shortlink report this content view post in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar