{"id":2507,"date":"2015-09-02T18:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T07:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2015-09-02T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:07:02","slug":"2015-satura-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"2015 Satura Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JohnBray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JohnBray.jpg\" alt=\"JohnBray\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>It was a great honour for me last night to be awarded The Friendly Street Poets\u2019 Satura Prize for best poem in the annual anthology. The 39<sup>th<\/sup> annual reader titled Silver Singing Streams (ed. Kalicharan N Dey and Geoff Hastwell) contains poems of a pretty high standard \u2013 so I\u2019m especially humbled that my poem <em>a clarity of smog<\/em> was chosen by this year\u2019s judge Mike Ladd as the pick of the bunch. Congratulations to all the other poets who were <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/2015\/09\/02\/2015-satura-prize-winner-a-clarity-of-smog-by-rob-walker\/\">shortlisted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Satura Award celebrates the late <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/poetry\/sample-of-poets\/john-bray\/\">John Bray<\/a> who was a tour de force for the first twenty years of Friendly Street.<\/p>\n<p>Read the poem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=2510\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a great honour for me last night to be awarded The Friendly Street Poets\u2019 Satura Prize for best poem in the annual anthology. The 39th annual reader titled Silver Singing Streams (ed. Kalicharan N Dey and Geoff Hastwell) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2507\">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-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}