{"id":1086,"date":"2007-10-24T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2007-10-24T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T09:18:00","slug":"gwilym-williams-sends-some-snapshots-from-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gwilym-williams-sends-some-snapshots-from-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwilym Williams sends some snapshots from Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snapshots<\/span>
 <\/span>


The panel of the Ottoman military tent<\/span>
is blazoned with a ring of crescent moons<\/span>
and a six-pointed star.<\/span>
 <\/span>
It is roughly patched and battle weary.<\/span>
 <\/span>
It hangs limply on the south wall<\/span>
overseeing flanked memories in oil:<\/span>
    <\/span>
        Liberi\u2019s Battle of the Dardanelles<\/span>
        Belloti\u2019s Battle of Albania<\/span>
        Aliense\u2019s Conquest of Tyre<\/span>
        Peranda\u2019s Victory at Jaffa.<\/span>
 <\/span>
It faces the throne of Saint Peter \u2013<\/span>
the stone chair with Koran inscriptions<\/span>
and arabesque stellar motifs.<\/span>
 <\/span>
                             *<\/span>
 <\/span>
Between the protagonists<\/span>
are found the antique artefacts:<\/span>
 <\/span>
        navigational instruments used in sailing<\/span>
        travel journals of merchants<\/span>
        11th century Islamic glassware<\/span>
        and several ancient carpets. <\/span>
 <\/span>
                             *<\/span>
 <\/span>
On a canvas a boy leads a monkey<\/span>
on a long string.<\/span>
 <\/span>
                             *<\/span>
 <\/span>
And a few steps away<\/span>
is Byron\u2019s misnamed Ponte dei Sospiri.<\/span>
 <\/span>
                             *<\/span>
 <\/span>
Pigeons avoid the dense needle defences<\/span>
of the window ledges<\/span>
and settle for a night in the beams<\/span>
 <\/span>
                             *<\/span>
 <\/span>
In the Doge\u2019s quadrangle the tall figures<\/span>
of Mars and Neptune stand together<\/span>
on the wide steps<\/span>
leading up to the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 As well as being a regular contributor to IS&T, over the past few weeks Gwilym Williams has been entertaining us in the comments column with a chronicle of what happened when he submitted a spoof poem to an equally bogus US poetry competition.
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Snapshots The panel of the Ottoman military tentis blazoned with a ring of crescent moonsand a six-pointed star. It is roughly patched and battle weary. It hangs limply on the south walloverseeing flanked memories in oil:            Liberi\u2019s Battle of the Dardanelles        Belloti\u2019s Battle of Albania        Aliense\u2019s Conquest of Tyre        Peranda\u2019s Victory at Jaffa. It faces the throne of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}