{"id":785,"date":"2022-09-30T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=785"},"modified":"2022-09-30T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:28:55","slug":"13-oct-graeme-hetherington-book-launch-hobart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/13-oct-graeme-hetherington-book-launch-hobart\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Oct\u2014Graeme Hetherington book launch (Hobart)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"blue-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Divided Self: A Tasmanian Odyssey &nbsp;<\/em>(Graeme Hetherington)<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"blue-text\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm, Thursday 13th October<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Ralph Spaulding will launch Graeme Hetherington\u2019s new poetry book \u2018The Divided Self: A Tasmanian Odyssey.&nbsp; This is Graeme\u2019s ninth poetry collection and portrays the poet\u2019s troubled journey to escape an \u201cafflicted self\u201d shadowed with loneliness and paranoia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Tautly crafted short stanzas with references and images connoting blackness, punishment and curse, such as Mount Black\u2019s shadows on Tasmania\u2019s West Coast, the cat-o\u2019-nine-tails, Coleridge\u2019s albatross and the scourge of Christ\u2019s crucifixion, convey the depth of the poet\u2019s despair. Despite the poet\u2019s desire to escape the \u201cdarkness of the past\u201d, the reader senses that the power of his personal psychological drama will challenge his search for transcendence. The poet will certainly continue to seek poems that \u201csoar beyond\u201d the theatre of the self, but they will provide perhaps only temporary respite as he continues to experience personal uncertainties and pain.\u2019 \u2013 Ralph Spaulding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">This is a ticketed event ($5.00) being held at The Hobart Bookshop on Thursday the 13th October, where tickets include a complimentary glass of wine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trybooking.com\/CCZPP\">Here<\/a>&nbsp;to Book your tickets<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Divided Self: A Tasmanian Odyssey &nbsp;(Graeme Hetherington) Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm, Thursday 13th October Ralph Spaulding will launch Graeme Hetherington\u2019s new poetry book \u2018The Divided Self: A Tasmanian Odyssey.&nbsp; This &hellip;<\/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":[4,113,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-launch","category-hetherington-graeme","category-spaulding-ralph","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}