{"id":22168,"date":"2013-08-31T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22168"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:02:37","slug":"a-writers-tea-party-8-september-more-frankie-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/a-writers-tea-party-8-september-more-frankie-mcmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writers&#8217; Tea Party, 8 September &#8212; &#038; More Frankie McMillan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indefatigable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcouncil.org.nz\/writers\/hallbernadette.html\">Bernadette Hall<\/a> is convening another Writers&#8217; Tea Party in support of the Hurunui District Libraries. The jury is currently out on whether Mad Hatters, March Hares, or Dormice will be in attendance, but we do know that there is to be a fine line up of guest writers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/a-writers-tea-party-8-september-more-frankie-mcmillan\/patched\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22172\" title=\"Patched\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Patched-107x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Patched-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Patched.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 107px) 100vw, 107px\" \/><\/a>Jarrold Gilbert, the author of <strong><em>Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand<\/em><\/strong>, which has just won the People\u2019s Choice Award in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksellers.co.nz\/awards\/new-zealand-post-book-awards\/big-music-kirsty-gunn-takes-top-prize-new-zealand-post-book-awar\">NZ Post Book Awards<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/a-writers-tea-party-8-september-more-frankie-mcmillan\/bengalengine\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22173\" title=\"bengalengine\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bengalengine-98x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bengalengine-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bengalengine.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><\/a>Geoff Cochrane, author of poetry collection,\u00a0 <strong><em>The Bengal Engine&#8217;s Mango Afterglow<\/em><\/strong>; and<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/a-writers-tea-party-8-september-more-frankie-mcmillan\/dressing-for-the-cannibals\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22174\" title=\"Dressing for the Cannibals\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dressing-for-the-Cannibals-106x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dressing-for-the-Cannibals-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dressing-for-the-Cannibals-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dressing-for-the-Cannibals.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a>Poet Frankie McMillan with her collection, <em><strong>Dressing For The Cannibals<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:\u00a0<\/strong> The Tea Party will be held at the Hurunui Memorial Library in Amberley, on Sunday 8 September, between 2-4 pm. Entry $2<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>B<a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/tuesday-poem-my-father-the-oceanographer-by-frankie-mcmillan\/frankie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11157\" title=\"Frankie\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Frankie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"71\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>ut for even more of poet and short story writer, Frankie McMillan, tune in to the Sunday progamme on National Radio tomorrow, September 1, at approximately 9.40 am and hear her interview with\u00a0 presenter, Richard Langston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indefatigable Bernadette Hall is convening another Writers&#8217; Tea Party in support of the Hurunui District Libraries. The jury is currently out on whether Mad Hatters, March Hares, or Dormice will be in attendance, but we do know that there is to be a fine line up of guest writers: Jarrold Gilbert, the author 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":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168","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=22168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22180,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22168\/revisions\/22180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}