{"id":15614,"date":"2012-08-31T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=15614"},"modified":"2012-08-30T21:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T09:56:15","slug":"poetry-launches-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/poetry-launches-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Poetry Launches &#038; Interactive Publications&#8217; Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/poetry-launches-tour\/ngt-front-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15615\" title=\"NGT front cover\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NGT-front-cover-96x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NGT-front-cover-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NGT-front-cover-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NGT-front-cover-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/NGT-front-cover.jpg 1719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chchwritersfest.co.nz\/\">Christchurch Writers&#8217; Festival<\/a> began yesterday but unfortunately I was not able to get along&#8212;&amp; sadly, one event I missed that I really wanted to attend was the launch of the two latest poetry collections from Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipoz.biz\/\">Interactive Press<\/a>: Karen Zelas&#8217;s <em>Night&#8217;s Glass Table<\/em> &amp; Sugu Pillay&#8217;s <em>Flaubert&#8217;s Drum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/poetry-launches-tour\/fd-front-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15616\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15616\" title=\"FD Front Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FD-Front-Cover-96x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FD-Front-Cover-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FD-Front-Cover-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FD-Front-Cover-658x1024.jpg 658w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/FD-Front-Cover.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a>Night\u2019s Glass Table<\/em> was the winner of\u00a0Interactive Publications <strong>2012 IP Picks Best First Book<\/strong> competition; <em>Flaubert&#8217;s Drum<\/em> was Highly Commended in the same competition.<\/p>\n<p>The exciting news though is that the festival is just one stop in the current nationwide tour for the launch of these books. So if you&#8217;re in another centre and couldn&#8217;t have been there today anyway, here&#8217;s the gigs coming up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Porirua: Sunday, 2 September, Metropolitan Caf\u00e9, 7 Lydney Place, 4pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Wellington: Monday, 3 September, Wellington Central Library, 5:30 for 6pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Auckland: Tuesday, 4 September, Poetry Live, Thirsty Dog, 469 Karangahape Rd, 7:30pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tauranga: Wednesday, 5 September, Tauranga Campus, Waikato University, Durham St, 6pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/poetry-launches-tour\/three-days-in-a-wishing-well\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15617\" title=\"Three Days in a Wishing Well\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Three-Days-in-a-Wishing-Well-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Three-Days-in-a-Wishing-Well-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Three-Days-in-a-Wishing-Well-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Three-Days-in-a-Wishing-Well.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a>And of course there&#8217;ll be another book launch at the Christchurch Writers&#8217; Festival at 6.30 pm on Sunday 2, when Kerrin P Sharpe will launch her collection <em>Three Days In A Wishing Well<\/em> (Victoria University Press.)<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget the other poetry events at the festival, featured <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/the-magic-of-poetry-at-the-christchurch-writers-festival\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In short: it&#8217;s all poetry today and all good! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christchurch Writers&#8217; Festival began yesterday but unfortunately I was not able to get along&#8212;&amp; sadly, one event I missed that I really wanted to attend was the launch of the two latest poetry collections from Australia&#8217;s Interactive Press: Karen Zelas&#8217;s Night&#8217;s Glass Table &amp; Sugu Pillay&#8217;s Flaubert&#8217;s Drum. Night\u2019s Glass Table was the winner [&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-15614","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\/15614","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=15614"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15631,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15614\/revisions\/15631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}