{"id":2637,"date":"2015-12-21T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2015-12-21T22:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T11:04:40","slug":"in-the-steam-train-at-darjeeling-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"In the steam train at Darjeeling station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5873-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5873\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5873-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5873-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5873-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My latest publication in <a href=\"http:\/\/rochfordstreetreview.com\/category\/journals\/fourw-new-writing\/\"><em>fourW<\/em> New Writing twenty six<\/a>. <em>fourW<\/em> has been good to me \u2013 it\u2019s the third consecutive year that my work\u2019s been published by Wagga Wagga Writers Writers and its editor David Gilbey (<em>speaking in tongues <\/em>in 2014 and <em>retired banker in a nursing home<\/em>, 2013) with my first one <em>Redback spider (male)<\/em> being published way back in 2005. As David Gilbey says in the editorial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s so special about <em>fourW<\/em>?\u201d as if its particularity is somehow not immediately obvious: arising out of a quarter of a century\u2019s advocacy for writing \u2013 from Wagga Wagga, a regional city half-way between Sydney and Melbourne, on another axis between Brisbane and Adelaide. <em>fourW<\/em> is inevitably distinctive, idiosyncratic due to its location, its contributions, its (some would say) quaint\/quirky presence \u2013 we could invoke Gerard Manley Hopkins here and trumpet <em>fourW\u2019s<\/em> \u2018inscape.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be sharing the book with local poets Rory Harris, Jill Jones and Jules Leigh Koch (as well as a lot of renowned poets from all over Australia.) Thanks to fourW for publishing my work one more time \u2013 long may you continue as a regional promoter of Australian writers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5875-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5875\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5875-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_5875-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest publication in fourW New Writing twenty six. fourW has been good to me \u2013 it\u2019s the third consecutive year that my work\u2019s been published by Wagga Wagga Writers Writers and its editor David Gilbey (speaking in tongues in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}