{"id":245,"date":"2014-03-05T13:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2014-03-05T23:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T23:40:55","slug":"brook-emery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Brook Emery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BrookEmery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44\" alt=\"collusionBookCover\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BrookEmery-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BrookEmery-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BrookEmery.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brook Emery lives near the surf in Sydney, where he was born in 1949. He has published three books of poetry,\u00a0<em>and dug my fingers in the sand\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(FIP, 2000),<em>\u00a0<\/em>which won the Judith Wright Calanthe Prize in the Queensland Premier\u2019s Awards,\u00a0<em>Misplaced Heart<\/em>\u00a0(FIP, 2003) and\u00a0<em>Uncommon Light<\/em>\u00a0(FIP, 2007). All three were short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize in the NSW Premier\u2019s Awards. A former teacher, he directed the Australian Poetry Festival in 2008 and 2010 and was until recently Chairperson of the Poets Union.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo:\u00a0Ross Nicholls<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brook Emery lives near the surf in Sydney, where he was born in 1949. He has published three books of poetry,\u00a0and dug my fingers in the sand\u00a0\u00a0(FIP, 2000),\u00a0which won the Judith Wright Calanthe Prize in the Queensland Premier\u2019s Awards,\u00a0Misplaced Heart\u00a0(FIP, 2003) and\u00a0Uncommon Light\u00a0(FIP, 2007). All three were short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize in the [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}