{"id":366,"date":"2022-05-19T00:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=366"},"modified":"2022-08-21T03:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T03:40:31","slug":"alex-skovron-on-3cr-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2022\/05\/19\/alex-skovron-on-3cr-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Skovron on 3CR this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex in conversation with Di Cousens, recalling an early poetry submission&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne of my very first submissions was from Sydney. It was to \u2018Poetry Australia\u2019, and at that time Les Murray was editing. I sent a bundle of poems representing those early ten years of my poetry writing but towards the later phase of that, poems I thought were good enough to try to submit. And Les Murray eventually sent back the bundle of poems with a wonderful comment, he said \u2018I can&#8217;t quite like these enough, though there are felicities here\u2019. That was in one way a rejection but in another it was encouragement. And I didn&#8217;t take it as a rejection, because I knew I had a fair way to go and I needed to refine not only what I was writing but my whole approach to poetry if I wanted to be serious about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[3CR, the Spoken Word Show, 19th May 2022]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex in conversation with Di Cousens, recalling an early poetry submission&#8230;. \u201cOne of my very first submissions was from Sydney. It was to \u2018Poetry Australia\u2019, and at that time Les &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[75,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations-interviews","category-skovron-alex","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}