{"id":137,"date":"2014-03-05T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-03-06T02:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:59:55","slug":"ocean-island-julian-croft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Island: Julian Croft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oceanIsland2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" alt=\"oceanIsland2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oceanIsland2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oceanIsland2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oceanIsland2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 0 9775787 3 9 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a092 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 21.95<\/p>\n<p>Julian Croft\u2019s imaginative territory will be familiar to many from his earlier collections of poetry \u2013 a swathe of the NSW coast and hinterland, and its people. The intensity of the meditation of self into society and place feels new.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ocean Island<\/em>\u00a0has seven meditative arcs that scope onto one another, presenting key dimensions of a life in recall; with an exotic and exact vocabulary for nuance, scientific, philosophical or local. From narrow walls of childhood \u2018games\u2019 to the topography of Newcastle \u2013 its lake land, sea-verge, heavy industry and earthquake \u2013 to the pristine surfaces of New England, place becomes the evocation of a life.<\/p>\n<p>And time is its medium. Julian Croft writes poems of a classical poise; their vibrancy is in poising, with a historical understanding, upon change. Water and earth, the elements of place, are part of it. See for instance the beautiful final ode.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ocean Island Poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3.-OceanIslandSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0are a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Ocean Island<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reviews: Ocean Islands\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=260\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Ocean Island.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISBN: 0 9775787 3 9 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a092 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 21.95 Julian Croft\u2019s imaginative territory will be familiar to many from his earlier collections of poetry \u2013 a swathe of the NSW coast and hinterland, and its people. The intensity of the meditation of self into society and place feels new. [&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\/137"}],"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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}