{"id":12335,"date":"2017-01-08T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T16:32:29","slug":"alex-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/alex-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Westminster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Emily Wilding Davison. Found hiding in crypt of Westminster Hall\u2019 \u2013 Census of England and Wales, 1911<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Note the Enumerator\u2019s slip of the wrist<br \/>\nin his legalese. Yes, she is sole occupant<\/p>\n<p>of this space between gold-lacquered<br \/>\nsainthood and \u2018School Teacher \u2013 Head<\/p>\n<p>of Household \u2013 Single.\u2019 They check<br \/>\nSt Mary\u2019s Undercroft more for thoroughness<\/p>\n<p>than in expectancy of finding the broom<br \/>\ncupboard occupied. She\u2019s schoolmistress<\/p>\n<p>polite, reasonable: if women don\u2019t count<br \/>\nin the State, why should I be counted?<\/p>\n<p>Logical \u2013 like her choice of residence<br \/>\nin an undercroft. Rebellion against tyrants<\/p>\n<p>is obedience to God. She glances up<br \/>\nfor royal saints to second her. Like Edward<\/p>\n<p>and his housecarls, she\u2019s set for martyrdom.<br \/>\nLike Edmund, she\u2019d take arrows all over<\/p>\n<p>in tests of faith. Like Margaret, hand outstretched<br \/>\nwith a gospel that no brook could smudge,<\/p>\n<p>tonight she testifies to burning conviction<br \/>\nin an illuminated book, a record \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This space to be filled up by the Enumerator.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Shaw<\/strong> is a student at Jesus College, Oxford and former President of Oxford University Poetry Society. He won the Martin Starkie Prize in 2015, and his poems have appeared in <em>The Literateur, The Cadaverine <\/em>and<em> Ash<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Westminster \u2018Emily Wilding Davison. Found hiding in crypt of Westminster Hall\u2019 \u2013 Census of England and Wales, 1911 Note the Enumerator\u2019s slip of the wrist in his legalese. Yes, she is sole occupant of this space between gold-lacquered sainthood and \u2018School Teacher \u2013 Head of Household \u2013 Single.\u2019 They check St Mary\u2019s Undercroft more [&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-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","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=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13057,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}