{"id":216,"date":"2012-09-13T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/?p=216"},"modified":"2012-09-13T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:40:18","slug":"nzsa-kevin-ireland-poetry-competition-2012-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"NZSA Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition 2012 winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this year&#8217;s New Zealand Society of Authors Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition, well over 100 pseudonymous entries were received and from these a final list of 12 poems were shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Ireland commented that the final cut had made for tough decisions.  Siobhan Harvey and Bernard Brown were runners-up. <\/p>\n<p>The outright winner was Riemke Ensing&#8217;s poem on love and loss called &#8216;A different kind of Hemingway episode&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Ireland judged that  &#8220;every word was crafted, poignant and precisely right. There is not even a shadow of a comma to spare. We are delighted to have this entry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Riemke received $250, an engraved plaque and a certificate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this year&#8217;s New Zealand Society of Authors Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition, well over 100 pseudonymous entries were received and from these a final list of 12 poems were shortlisted. Kevin Ireland commented that the final cut had made for tough decisions. Siobhan Harvey and Bernard Brown were runners-up. The outright winner was Riemke Ensing&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}