{"id":1501,"date":"2025-01-23T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:19:05","slug":"helen-swains-poetry-collection-calibrating-home-launch-speech-by-gina-mercer-nov-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/helen-swains-poetry-collection-calibrating-home-launch-speech-by-gina-mercer-nov-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Swain&#8217;s poetry collection &#8216;Calibrating Home&#8217; | launch speech by Gina Mercer (Nov 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Mercer, Hobart | 24th November 2024:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal tm12\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"tm6\">So, here is a book. It\u2019s Helen\u2019s book. It\u2019s a very good book. Filled with \u2013 and \u2018about the goodness of people\u2019. You, all of you \u2013 you are a \u2018goodness of people\u2019. Gift yourself this very good book. Gift one to any of your people who love goodness. Who need this brilliant balance of balm and grim. Oh, for goodness\u2019 sake \u2013 buy a heap. It\u2019ll make Helen happy. It\u2019ll make Bronwyn, the indefatigable and ever-helpful bookseller, happy. And Helen\u2019s perspicacious publisher, 5 Islands Press. And Suzi \u2013 why, even the wee spider will be happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal tm5\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"tm6\">So here goes, here, I launch this very good book. Helen\u2019s book. Here \u2013 it flies into your delighted arms and hearts. Because we\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"tm8\">know deeply about the goodness of people<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm6\">. That goodness, and this very good book of Helen\u2019s poetry, are our best\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"tm8\">protection against the weather or whatever is coming<\/span><\/em><span class=\"tm6\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read Gina&#8217;s full launch speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/rochfordstreetreview.com\/2025\/01\/13\/the-necessity-for-resisting-complacency-gina-mercer-launches-calibrating-home-by-helen-swain\/\"><em>Rochford Street Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Mercer, Hobart | 24th November 2024: So, here is a book. It\u2019s Helen\u2019s book. It\u2019s a very good book. Filled with \u2013 and \u2018about the goodness of people\u2019. You, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/helen-swains-poetry-collection-calibrating-home-launch-speech-by-gina-mercer-nov-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helen Swain&#8217;s poetry collection &#8216;Calibrating Home&#8217; | launch speech by Gina Mercer (Nov 2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[229,39,2,38,62,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-islands-press","category-mercer-gina","category-poetry","category-poetry-collections","category-poets","category-swain-helen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}