{"id":36,"date":"2008-03-06T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T01:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-03-06T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T01:50:59","slug":"adelaide-writers-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"adelaide writers&#8217; week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, this year I&#8217;m missing the buzz of one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/books\/to-adelaide-with-love\/2006\/03\/02\/1141191791349.html\">world&#8217;s great literary festivals<\/a>.\u00a0But a package of the 3 recently-launched\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/?cat=8\">Friendly Street poetry publications<\/a>\u00a0arrived on my apartment doorstep a couple of days ago and I&#8217;m madly devouring. There will be reviews soon. Incidentally, it&#8217;s exactly two years ago that Louise Nicholas and I launched the anthology\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/books\/fspoets30.html\">THIRTY<\/a>:<span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px\"><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 25px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">06\/03\/06: \u00a0&#8220;Thanks to all concerned who made the Launch of our \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/fs27.htm\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">3 Friendly Street<\/span><\/a>\u00a0publications a great success at Adelaide Writers&#8217; Week yesterday. Special thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marocstock.com\/kalevala\/about.htm\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Sandy McCutcheon<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for taking the time not just to launch THIRTY, but to have read the entire collection prior to the day &amp; pass on his positive comments to the poets. Thanks too to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jayasavige.blogspot.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Jaya Savige<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for selecting the winner of the NOVA prize for best unpublished poet. The winner was a very excited\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/lindstrom_nova.htm\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Helen Lindstrom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #99cc00\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">.<\/span> Congratulations, Helen&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, this year I&#8217;m missing the buzz of one of the\u00a0world&#8217;s great literary festivals.\u00a0But a package of the 3 recently-launched\u00a0Friendly Street poetry publications\u00a0arrived on my apartment doorstep a couple of days ago and I&#8217;m madly devouring. There will be reviews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=36\">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-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}