{"id":2981,"date":"2017-03-07T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:04:52","slug":"a-plethora-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"a plethora of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adelaide_Writers_Wee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adelaide_Writers_Wee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Adelaide_Writers_Wee\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adelaide_Writers_Wee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adelaide_Writers_Wee-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adelaide_Writers_Wee.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty sick all this year and haven&#8217;t been out much. So it was a pleasure (if exhausting!) to get along to Adelaide Writers Week yesterday to see Mike Ladd chatting with Adam Aitken and a session curated by Peter Goldsworthy featuring perhaps the best of South Australia&#8217;s poets: Steve Brock, Cath Kenneally, Jules Leigh Koch, Louise Nicholas, Jan Owen and Dom Symes. All were excellent in their own way. The surprise bonus was that Peter introduced Ali Cobby-Eckermann who has just won the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/windhamcampbell.org\/\">Windham-Campbell Prize<\/a> and we were treated to a couple of her poems. Coincidentally on the way in\u00a0I&#8217;d been listening to Mike Ladd&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/earshot\/inside-my-mother-ali-cobby-eckermann\/8319308\">Earshot podcast\u00a0<em>Inside my Mother<\/em> <\/a>about\u00a0Ali&#8217;s life and poetry. So much poetic talent in this state!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty sick all this year and haven&#8217;t been out much. So it was a pleasure (if exhausting!) to get along to Adelaide Writers Week yesterday to see Mike Ladd chatting with Adam Aitken and a session curated by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2981\">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-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}