{"id":12328,"date":"2017-01-07T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12328"},"modified":"2016-10-31T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:44:14","slug":"angela-mccabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/angela-mccabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela McCabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Natural<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dark clouds block the light,<br \/>\nbar one entire field on fire<br \/>\nfrom a single ray of sun.<\/p>\n<p>A minx waits till the trees turn,<br \/>\nthen steals through dewy grass<br \/>\ntaking a red hen\u2019s companion.<\/p>\n<p>She swells her burnt umber breast,<br \/>\nabout to give up eggs and feathers,<br \/>\nattempts to fly on broken wings.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a knowing,<br \/>\nday cannot be night,<br \/>\nand rivers flow one way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Angela McCabe<\/strong>\u2019s second book was published autumn 2016.\u00a0\u00a0 Winner &#8211; 2016 Listowel Poetry Collection, Thomas McCarthy, judge, commented:<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2026.. wonderful poems, full of adroit observations, technical ease\u2026\u2026 fabulous humanity.\u2026\u2026 wisdom\u00a0 to accompany the song of life\u2026\u2026. beautiful, affirmative poetry. <\/em>She has won many awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Natural Dark clouds block the light, bar one entire field on fire from a single ray of sun. A minx waits till the trees turn, then steals through dewy grass taking a red hen\u2019s companion. She swells her burnt umber breast, about to give up eggs and feathers, attempts to fly on broken wings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-12328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12328","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12985,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12328\/revisions\/12985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}