{"id":1037,"date":"2015-04-20T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2015-04-20T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T22:42:49","slug":"native-bird-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2015\/04\/20\/native-bird-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Bird &#8211; Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his anticipated third collection, <em>Native Bird<\/em>, award-winning poet Bryan Walpert &#8211; who\u00a0arrived here from the U.S. a decade ago &#8211; writes of what it\u2019s been like to be an observer or\u00a0\u201cbirdwatcher\u201d\u00a0in a land whose physical and cultural geographies he is still learning to name. With his trademark precision and insight, Bryan weaves meditations on the life and songs of birds into his observations on living as a new settler in wind-charged Manawatu. Working at the shifting borders between homes and hearts, prose and poetry, call and song, this is an arresting collection that speaks to us all.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Dunedin this week, please join us at the Dunedin Public Library\u00a0for launches of Bryan\u2019s new poetry collection,\u00a0<em>Native Bird,\u00a0<\/em>as part of Makaro Press\u2019s Hoopla Series, alongside collections by Carolyn McCurdie (<em>Bones in the Octagon)<\/em>\u00a0and Jennifer Compton (<em>Mr Clean &amp; The Junkie<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1038 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/04\/walpert-bryan-nativebird-02-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"walpert-bryan-nativebird-02\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/04\/Dunedin-invite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1045 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/04\/Dunedin-invite-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dunedin invite.pdf\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/04\/Dunedin-invite-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/04\/Dunedin-invite-750x1187.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/04\/Dunedin-invite-100x158.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his anticipated third collection, Native Bird, award-winning poet Bryan Walpert &#8211; who\u00a0arrived here from the U.S. a decade ago &#8211; writes of what it\u2019s been like to be an observer or\u00a0\u201cbirdwatcher\u201d\u00a0in a land whose physical and cultural geographies he is still learning to name. With his trademark precision and insight, Bryan weaves meditations on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,101,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-events","category-expressive-arts-subject"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}