{"id":518,"date":"2018-09-12T11:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2018-09-12T11:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T11:11:20","slug":"poem-highly-commended-in-literary-nillumbik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Poem Highly Commended in Literary Nillumbik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=520\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-520 \" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_3074-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_3074-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_3074-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriancollections.net.au\/media\/collectors\/515117862162ef0d94ebf8ed\/items\/5a72a58721ea6814300bf66d\/item-media\/5a72a61f21ea6814300ca543\/VictorianCollections-medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a>My poem \u201cCartouche\u201d, an ekphrasis based on the print \u2018Frosty Night Cartouche\u2019 by Jock Clutterbuck has been awarded &#8216;Open Highly Commended&#8217; and published in the <em>Literary Nillumbik Anthology of Writing 2018.<\/em> \u00a0Of the poem, judge Helen Lucas said \u201cThe commended poem,\u00a0<em>Cartouche<\/em>, makes the most of the limited lines &#8211; it is well edited and feels complete. \u00a0The poet has clearly taken joy working with this abstract image to construct a narrative.\u201d \u00a0I did enjoyed the writing of this poem and as &#8216;Frosty Night Cartouche\u2019 is one of eight prints in the &#8216;Baldessin &amp; Friends commemorative folio which was conceived as a way to honour George Baldessin&#8217;s memory, I explored the notions of the friendship, loss, and the celebration of Baldessin\u2019s life that Clutterbuck would have been working with in his painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem \u201cCartouche\u201d, an ekphrasis based on the print \u2018Frosty Night Cartouche\u2019 by Jock Clutterbuck has been awarded &#8216;Open Highly Commended&#8217; and published in the Literary Nillumbik Anthology of Writing 2018. \u00a0Of the poem, judge Helen Lucas said \u201cThe commended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}