{"id":28496,"date":"2015-03-17T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28496"},"modified":"2015-03-17T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T20:32:13","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-i-am-guest-editor-on-the-hub-featuring-frankie-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/the-tuesday-poem-i-am-guest-editor-on-the-hub-featuring-frankie-mcmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: I Am Guest Editor On the Hub, Featuring Frankie McMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I am the guest editor on The Tuesday Poem Hub<\/a> and have chosen to feature not one but two poems by fellow Christchurch poet, Frankie McMillan, starting with:<\/p>\n

“Hour glass<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

she was a cors\u00e8tiere<\/span>
\nthreading whale bone<\/span><\/p>\n

through cloth<\/span><\/p>\n

placing herself close<\/span>
\nto the ocean \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

became lucrative<\/span><\/p>\n

when whales surfaced<\/span>
\nshe saw<\/span><\/p>\n

bustles, derri\u00e8res…”<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Artist:<\/a>

Artist: Nichola Shanley<\/p><\/div>\n

To read the poems in full, click on:<\/p>\n

“Hour glass” and “at night my dead mother appears wanting soup”<\/a><\/h3>\n

I look forward to seeing you on the Hub and hope to find out your responses to the poem—through the comments, dear readers, through the comments! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The other very exciting news is that Frankie’s new (second) collection, published by Canterbury University Press, is being launched this Thursday, at 5.30 pm,\u00a0 at the University Bookshop. It is called There are no horses in heaven<\/strong><\/em> and I am looking forward to reading it immensely.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To read the other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, check out the blog roll in the Hub\u2019s left hand sidebar.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am the guest editor on The Tuesday Poem Hub and have chosen to feature not one but two poems by fellow Christchurch poet, Frankie McMillan, starting with: “Hour glass she was a cors\u00e8tiere threading whale bone through cloth placing herself close to the ocean \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 became lucrative when whales surfaced she saw bustles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28496","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=28496"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28510,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28496\/revisions\/28510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}