{"id":1864,"date":"2013-06-23T05:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2013-06-23T05:20:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T18:20:15","slug":"not-my-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"not my knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1866\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/logo1-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/logo1-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/logo1.png 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve recently learnt that my unpublished poetry manuscript has been short-listed for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eruditescribe.com\/john-knight-memorial-poetry-manuscript-prize\/\">John Knight Memorial Poetry Prize<\/a> for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>My congratulations to the winner Vanessa Kirkpatrick, of Katoomba. \u00a0Her first collection of poetry\u00a0<em>To Catch the Light\u00a0<\/em>will be published by Fence Post Press and Erudite Scribe and launched at the Queensland Poetry Festival in August.<\/p>\n<p>The judging panel Jeffrey Harpeng, Andrew Leggett, Duncan Richardson said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were very pleased to receive 60 entries in this first year of the manuscript competition, many of them of very high quality. \u00a0After considerable deliberation, we arrived at a shortlist of four manuscripts. \u00a0<em>To Catch the Light\u00a0<\/em>impressed with its consistency of voice, and its capacity to reveal new depth and greater pleasure on repeated reading. \u00a0The other shortlisted finalists were Rob Walker, Vanessa Page and Jeff Klooger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So despite not winning, I\u2019m very pleased to find myself in this list of four poets in a nation-wide competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019ve recently learnt that my unpublished poetry manuscript has been short-listed for the John Knight Memorial Poetry Prize for 2013. My congratulations to the winner Vanessa Kirkpatrick, of Katoomba. \u00a0Her first collection of poetry\u00a0To Catch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1864\">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-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}