{"id":14948,"date":"2012-07-24T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=14948"},"modified":"2013-02-03T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:20:28","slug":"tuesday-poem-a-podcast-interview-with-helen-heath-author-of-graft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/tuesday-poem-a-podcast-interview-with-helen-heath-author-of-graft\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: A Podcast Interview with Helen Heath, Author of &#8220;Graft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14647\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/tuesday-poem-fairytale-v-o-brother-by-helen-heath\/helenheath_creditkatemacpherson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14647\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-14647\" title=\"HelenHeath_creditKateMacPherson\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HelenHeath_creditKateMacPherson-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HelenHeath_creditKateMacPherson-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HelenHeath_creditKateMacPherson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HelenHeath_creditKateMacPherson-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Heath; credit Kate MacPherson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As my Tuesday Poem feature today, I am linking to my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.nz\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=women%20on%20air&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CFcQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.womenonair.org.nz%2F&amp;ei=rb3mT4jVN6yUiAfi9MFZ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSHRkXAZPpn5Ek-AU4SxUkY2-OZQ&amp;cad=rja\">Women on Air<\/a> interview with poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenheath.com\/\">Helen Heath<\/a>, author of the poetry collection <strong><em>&#8220;Graft.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Helen Heath won the inaugural ScienceTeller Poetry Award in 2011 for her poem <em>\u2018Making Tea in the Universe\u2019<\/em> and is currently undertaking a PhD in Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington; her research explores how science is represented in poetry. Widely published in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the US, <strong><em>Graft <\/em><\/strong>is Helen&#8217;s debut poetry collection, with themes that include science, family connection, and fairytales.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/24\/what-im-reading-graft-by-helen-heath\/graftwithgreybackground\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-14483\" title=\"GraftwithGreybackground\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraftwithGreybackground-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraftwithGreybackground-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraftwithGreybackground-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraftwithGreybackground-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GraftwithGreybackground.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a>To listen to the interview &#8212; and hear Helen reading <em>\u2018Making Tea in the Universe\u2019<\/em> and <em>&#8216;Holding water&#8217;<\/em> &#8212; click <a href=\"http:\/\/plainsfm.org.nz\/on-demand\/woa-helenheath-july2012\/\">Here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>Then either click on the \u2018Play\u2019 button, or download the MP3<\/p>\n<p>In addition, you can read my \u201cWhat I\u2019m Reading\u201d post on <strong><em>Graft<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/24\/what-im-reading-graft-by-helen-heath\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And my Tuesday Poem feature of Helen\u2019s poem <em>Fairytale v: O Brother<\/em>, published in <strong><em>Graft<\/em><\/strong>, is <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/tuesday-poem-fairytale-v-o-brother-by-helen-heath\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the <strong>Quill<\/strong> <strong>icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my Tuesday Poem feature today, I am linking to my recent Women on Air interview with poet Helen Heath, author of the poetry collection &#8220;Graft.&#8221; Helen Heath won the inaugural ScienceTeller Poetry Award in 2011 for her poem \u2018Making Tea in the Universe\u2019 and is currently undertaking a PhD in Modern Letters at Victoria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948","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=14948"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18605,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14948\/revisions\/18605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}