{"id":2621,"date":"2010-12-08T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2010-12-04T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:10:47","slug":"mer-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/mer-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Mer Made!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted to have been invited by <strong>Marissa Johnpillai<\/strong> to read as a guest poet at the event <strong>Mer Made<\/strong>, to be held at Christchurch&#8217;s <strong>Beat Street Cafe<\/strong>, on the cnr of Barbadoes and Armagh Streets, on <strong>Thursday December 16 <\/strong>at<strong> 8 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the &#8220;gen&#8221;&#8212;but I think this may just be a &#8220;be there or be square&#8221; event!<\/p>\n<pre>`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Mer Made<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(because the earth is 80% water)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>oceans, islands &amp; merfolk<\/p>\n<p>spin words &amp; play music<\/p>\n<p>`&#8217;~,.,~&#8217;`&#8217;~,.,~&#8217;`&#8217;~,.,~&#8217;`&#8217;~,.,~&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Cracks in Everything lap songs by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sing.co.nz\/nikkiberry.html\">Nikki BERRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>onto the shores of poems by<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nzpoetsonline.homestead.com\/ta19.html\">Tusiata AVIA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jania GALLETLY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/poetry.html\"><strong>Helen LOWE <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle O&#8217;HALLORAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'`'~,.,~'\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>which, of course, leads to a whirlpool of<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tamara SMITH<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Sum SURAWEERA<\/strong> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>the Flutation and Percussion from <a href=\"http:\/\/mundi.co.nz\/\">Mundi<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>ripplin ,over^under_through~ lyrics by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrynz.net\/archives\/issue-36\/\">Marissa JOHNPILLAI<\/a> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>the Buoy from Elsewhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted to have been invited by Marissa Johnpillai to read as a guest poet at the event Mer Made, to be held at Christchurch&#8217;s Beat Street Cafe, on the cnr of Barbadoes and Armagh Streets, on Thursday December 16 at 8 pm. Here&#8217;s the &#8220;gen&#8221;&#8212;but I think this may just be a &#8220;be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}