{"id":153,"date":"2014-03-05T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:06:07","slug":"growing-up-with-mr-menzies-john-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Growing up with Mr Menzies: John Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MrMenzies3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156\" alt=\"MrMenzies3\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MrMenzies3-209x300.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MrMenzies3-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MrMenzies3.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 978 0 9805269 0 5 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0252 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>Rarely is a book about growing-up so free from nostalgia, but full of such bittersweet portraits.<\/p>\n<p>It is the story of the early years of Felix Hayes, born in 1949 in suburban Melbourne. It is also John Jenkins\u2019 meditation \u2013 implicit everywhere, and at times direct \u2013 on memory and fiction, and on the embodiment of history in the lives of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>He is deft with the flexible rhythms of free-verse forms. The evocations of the secret spaces and places, and the relationships, of childhood are caught with beautiful economy and layering of tones and voices.<\/p>\n<p>Threaded through is the iconic figure of Mr Menzies, himself a layered character, as a guide to the Australian era that bears his name.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Growing up with Mr Menzies\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11.-JohnJenkins\u2022webFeb2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Growing up with Mr Menzies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reviews Growing up with Mr Menzies\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=275\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Growing up with Mr Menzies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN: 978 0 9805269 0 5 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0252 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 Rarely is a book about growing-up so free from nostalgia, but full of such bittersweet portraits. It is the story of the early years of Felix Hayes, born in 1949 in suburban Melbourne. It is also John Jenkins\u2019 meditation \u2013 [&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\/153"}],"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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}