Category: Update
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On Attention: Vale Ellen Bryant Voigt
“Ruthless attention,” Voigt called it — the discipline to see what is there and what is not. Whether describing a difficult scene or a troubling interior state, she believed accuracy itself could be an ethics.
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Field Notes between Storms
If you enjoyed ‘After the Storm’, you might like Day-Possum, Morning River Notes, or A Tiny Deity. They all involve observation and a positive emotional turn. Here’s something I wrote as a craft exercise: a poem in two sentences. … Goanna This afternoon, a goanna ambled toward me, tongue tasting the air between us—all the…
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From the notebook: Oars
Hi all, just a little announcement: counter/field has a new posting schedule. Poems will be posted weekly On wednesdays at 10pm AEST. On Saturdays at 10am AEST, I’ll do a feature post and maybe an update. The update this week is that the blog is doing very well, and that I’m going to try to…
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Update
Hi All, This is a quick update on what’s happening with counter/field. For a new poetry blog, things are going remarkably well. Readership has increased notably in the past few weeks, and it’s gratifying to see that people seem to like the new visual pieces. They exist in conversation with the poems and I believe…
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September Roundup
There’s a new poem today, by the way: ‘Little Hooks’ September has been a turning point. The blog passed its highest month on record, and more than a hundred readers are now following along. A special thank you to all the new subscribers — welcome, and I hope you find something here to enjoy, or…