{"id":800,"date":"2010-07-29T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2010-07-29T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T20:01:55","slug":"sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… You post stuff and then find a link to it somewhere else, on a site you didn’t even know about until then …<\/p>\n

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Valles Marineris (as featured in Tim's poem); photo from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, that’s what happened to me today when I found a link to my Tuesday Poem<\/a> post of Tim Jones’ “The First Artist on Mars”<\/em><\/a> on Marooned—Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books On Mars<\/a>. Which I thought was kinda cool … and Tim’s poem entirely deserving of the notice!<\/p>\n

To find out more about Tim Jones, you can visit his website here<\/a>. To discover his Mars sequence “Red Stone” <\/em>you’ll have to read his collection, All Blacks’ Kitchen Garden<\/em>s—or check out Voyagers: <\/strong>Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Interactive Publications, 2009; ed. Tim Jones & Mark Pirie), which contains at least one other Mars poem from Tim and lots of other wonderful science fiction poetry on a wide range of subjects.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve also been preparing for the last of my NZ Poetry Month interviews for Women on Air, this time with Bernadette Hall<\/strong><\/a>, who is one of NZ’s most celebrated contemporary poets and whose most recent collection The Lustre Jug<\/strong><\/a>\ufeff <\/em>(VUP) <\/em>is a finalist in this year’s NZ Post National Book Award for Poetry.<\/a> <\/strong> I loved the collection when it came out last year and am thrilled it’s up for the big award—but Bernadette is such a warm, wise person and so easy to talk to that really I am just looking forward to having another conversation with her on air.<\/p>\n

And if you’d like to get a feel for The Lustre Jug<\/strong>\ufeff <\/em>and Bernadette’s poetry, you can read these poems online:<\/p>\n

Leda at the Billabong<\/a> (Best NZ Poems 2008)<\/p>\n

The Fox <\/a>(Best NZ Poems 2009)<\/p>\n

And tomorrow—being National Poetry Day—we’ll be featuring the title poem from Bernadette’s collection, The Lustre Jug,<\/em> on the Tuesday Poem blog<\/strong><\/a>, together with poems from each of the other finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… You post stuff and then find a link to it somewhere else, on a site you didn’t even know about until then … Well, that’s what happened to me today when I found a link to my Tuesday Poem post of Tim Jones’ “The First Artist on Mars” on Marooned—Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}