{"id":433,"date":"2022-09-08T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=433"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:16:04","slug":"tasmanian-poet-tim-slade-reading-thylacine-in-the-myrtle-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/tasmanian-poet-tim-slade-reading-thylacine-in-the-myrtle-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian poet Tim Slade, reading &#8216;Thylacine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Tim Slade&#8217;s been writing poetry for a decade, his work has appeared in publications as diverse as <em>The Weekend Australian, The Koori Mail, Australian Poetry Anthology, Growing Up Disabled In Australia<\/em> and <em>Cordite Poetry Review<\/em>. Originally from Hobart, he settled in the tiny Tasmanian town of Pioneer a decade ago where he&#8217;s drawn inspiration for much of his poetry.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Tim&#8217;s poetry collection <em>The Walnut Tree<\/em>, was published in April 2021 by Daniela Brozek Cordier&#8217;s imprint Bright South Publishing, and launched by Pete Hay at Petrarch&#8217;s Bookshop, Launceston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=12322804  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-434 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:258\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:258\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 258w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:881\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 881w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:893\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:1321\/h:1536\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:1762\/h:2048\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 1762w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:349\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:850\/h:988\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/slade-ottaway-5-scaled.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tim Slade at the launch of <em>The Walnut Tree<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, both Slade and Hay\u2014<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">in their most recent collections\u2014praised the work of a Scottish poet who lived out his life on a far flung island on the opposite side of the globe, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Orcadian George Mackay Brown.&nbsp; Honouring Brown, Tim mailed a copy of his book to the local library in Stromness, Orkney Islands, where the book is now available to borrow.&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8216;On the harbour in Stromness, the view from this library is perhaps the most picturesque in the world,&#8217; Tim writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=34157970  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-435 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:225\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stromness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:225\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stromness.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stromness.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mliu8nxwhmtf.i.optimole.com\/w:480\/h:640\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stromness.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim recently produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pQ_bYTfsdYk\">Youtube video of &#8216;Thylacine&#8217;<\/a>, one of the poems featured in his collection. As well, Warwick Hadfield read the poem on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/breakfast\/friday-poetry-with-warwick-hadfield\/13974506\">RN&#8217;s Breakfast programme<\/a> in July this year. &#8216;Thylacine&#8217; was previously published in <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/communion-15-Tim-Slade.html\">Communion 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Slade&#8217;s been writing poetry for a decade, his work has appeared in publications as diverse as The Weekend Australian, The Koori Mail, Australian Poetry Anthology, Growing Up Disabled In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2,38,62,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-poetry-collections","category-poets","category-slade-tim","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}