{"id":12344,"date":"2017-01-11T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:13:22","slug":"laila-sumpton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/laila-sumpton\/","title":{"rendered":"Laila Sumpton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cousin partition<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Lahore, 1960<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have caught a spy<br \/>\nfrom across the border<br \/>\nthe kind of traitor<br \/>\nour teacher warned us of<br \/>\nwith brazen suitcases<br \/>\nstuffed with unfolded thoughts<br \/>\ntie her up in the basement<br \/>\nwith her own plats<br \/>\nour aunt is looking for her<br \/>\nthinks she\u2019s just hiding<br \/>\nfrom cod-liver oil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laila Sumpton<\/strong> performs her poetry and organises events and workshops at universities, <a href=\"https:\/\/drdavidbrady.com\/alprazolam-xanax-1mg\/\">buy xanax online<\/a> festivals, museums and with various NGOs across the country and internationally. She is a member of the Keats House Poets and is published in &#8216;Over Land, Over Sea- poems for those seeking refuge&#8217; (Five Leaves,2015). She is co-directing refugee and migrant poetry collective Bards Without Borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Cousin partition Lahore, 1960 We have caught a spy from across the border the kind of traitor our teacher warned us of with brazen suitcases stuffed with unfolded thoughts tie her up in the basement with her own plats our aunt is looking for her thinks she\u2019s just hiding from cod-liver oil. &nbsp; [&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-12344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344","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=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}