{"id":916,"date":"2011-10-03T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T22:36:18","slug":"caravan-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"caravan park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/clearingthecaravanpark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-928\" title=\"clearingthecaravanpark\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/clearingthecaravanpark-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/clearingthecaravanpark-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/clearingthecaravanpark.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My poem <em>Clearing the caravan park<\/em> has been shortlisted (with <a title=\"8 others\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writingwa.org\/articles\/GALA-DAY-FOR-POETS-A\">8 others<\/a>) for the 2011 Julie Lewis Biennial Literary Awards (<a title=\"caravan park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcwc.org.au\/\">Peter Cowan Writers Centre<\/a>, Perth, Western Australia.) Even if it goes no further I\u2019m honored to have reached the short-list stage from a national field of 220 poems. The other finalists are\u00a0Amanda Anastasi, Karen Atkinson, Kate Case, Mikaela Castledine, Oliver Driscoll, Christopher Konrad, Roland Leach, Jan Price and \u00a0Edward Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>My poet friend Julia Wakefield introduced me to the Peter Cowan Centre last year when she won second place in the alternate-year Trudy Graham Awards with her provocative poem <em>Language\/Caution<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also received a welcome email this week from editor Michelle Hartman to say that my poem <em>crying at the poetry reading<\/em> has been accepted for the US online literary journal <a title=\"Red River Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redriverreview.com\/\">Red River Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem Clearing the caravan park has been shortlisted (with 8 others) for the 2011 Julie Lewis Biennial Literary Awards (Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Perth, Western Australia.) Even if it goes no further I\u2019m honored to have reached the short-list &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}