{"id":14960,"date":"2012-07-27T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=14960"},"modified":"2012-07-22T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:21:35","slug":"national-poetry-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/national-poetry-day-today\/","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Day Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksellers.co.nz\/awards\/new-zealand-post-book-awards\/poetry-day\">National Poetry Day<\/a> &#8212; and I&#8217;m reading!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> University Bookshop, University of Canterbury<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Event begins, 12.30 pm<\/p>\n<p>The bookshop will be announcing the result of its National Poetry Day competition, with the winners reading their work, together with guest poets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcouncil.org.nz\/writers\/holmanjeffrey.html\">Jeffrey Paparoa Holman <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcouncil.org.nz\/Writers\/Profiles\/Brown,%20Ben\">Ben Brown<\/a>, as well as myself.<\/p>\n<p>And of course there are lots of other National Poetry Day events taking place around the country &#8212; you can check them out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksellers.co.nz\/awards\/new-zealand-post-book-awards\/poetry-day\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For even more poetry goodness, check out all the poems featured as part of the National Poetry Day celebration on <strong>Frankfurt Book Fair: An Aoteraoa Affair<\/strong> blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/newzealandgermany2012.wordpress.com\/category\/highlights\/\">here<\/a>. (And scroll down: it&#8217;s a tremendous blog roll of poetry &#8212; also with my poem, <em>The Wayfarer<\/em>, featured <a href=\"http:\/\/newzealandgermany2012.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/19\/highlight-helen-lowe\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is National Poetry Day &#8212; and I&#8217;m reading! Where: University Bookshop, University of Canterbury When: Event begins, 12.30 pm The bookshop will be announcing the result of its National Poetry Day competition, with the winners reading their work, together with guest poets Jeffrey Paparoa Holman and Ben Brown, as well as myself. And of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14960","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=14960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14960\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}