{"id":11588,"date":"2012-02-08T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2012-02-07T20:41:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:41:20","slug":"a-poetry-launch-the-happiness-of-rain-by-jan-hutchison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/a-poetry-launch-the-happiness-of-rain-by-jan-hutchison\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poetry Launch: “The Happiness of Rain” by Jan Hutchison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday evening I had the great pleasure of attending the launch for poet Jan Hutchison’s third collection, The Happiness of Rain<\/em> (Steele Roberts.)<\/p>\n

You may recall that I featured Jan’s poem Unwinding Matariki’s Hair <\/em>(which is part of this new collection) as my Tuesday Poem on December 6 last year–you can read it again, together with Jan’s personal comment on the poem, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Happiness of Rain<\/em> follows Jan’s prior collections, The Long Sleep is Over<\/em> and Days Among Trees<\/em>, both also published by Steele Roberts.\u00a0 It features The Coming of the Matariki<\/em>, which won first place in the Bravado International Poetry Competition 2006—and of course Jan has recently won the Takahe Poetry Competition 2011 for a new poem, Reading the Book Aloud.<\/em><\/p>\n

I love Jan’s poetry—she is an outstanding wordsmith and poetic craftsperson, and her poems are always insightful, compassionate, and keenly observed. So I was delighted to be able to attend her launch and am very much looking forward to sitting down with The Happiness of Rain—<\/em>I hope, very soon!<\/p>\n

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Yesterday evening I had the great pleasure of attending the launch for poet Jan Hutchison’s third collection, The Happiness of Rain (Steele Roberts.) You may recall that I featured Jan’s poem Unwinding Matariki’s Hair (which is part of this new collection) as my Tuesday Poem on December 6 last year–you can read it again, together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklaunches","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11602,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions\/11602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}