{"id":1,"date":"2014-03-04T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-03-06T02:59:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:59:04","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Claire Gaskin: a bud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/abud2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5\" alt=\"abud2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/abud2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/abud2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/abud2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 0 4 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a078 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0 RRP: 21.95<\/p>\n<p>These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic.<\/p>\n<p>The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its reflections take the daily things and emotions, with a background of rural Victoria in some of the imagery; and its rhythms feel fresh to a syllable.<\/p>\n<p>There is no modish nervousness towards language\u2019s impotence. Claire Gaskin, in a style that she formed by the mid-eighties, keeps a modernist confidence in expressiveness. The poems here have been matured from two to twenty years, with an artist\u2019s instinct not to hurry. The words seem incised on the page for a long term.<\/p>\n<p><i>A bud<\/i>\u00a0was shortlisted for the John Bray Prize in the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"a bud Samples\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-abudSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>a bud<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"a bud: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=256\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>: <em>a bud.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 0 4 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a078 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0 RRP: 21.95 These poems are spare, in the tradition of imagism, from haiku through to surrealism and since; and they are oblique, worked between logic and illogic. The voice, among this, is lucid to hear. It is playful and wise; its reflections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}