{"id":14517,"date":"2017-09-12T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14517"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:21:32","slug":"kushal-poddar-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kushal-poddar-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>The Dead Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the old cable<br \/>\ndrops of oblivion<br \/>\nsettle in seriatim.<\/p>\n<p>Fog stills the sky.<br \/>\nSmoke adds<br \/>\nstrokes to the mist.<\/p>\n<p>From a dusty<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s On The TV<br \/>\nI gather death&#8217;s itinerary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kushal Poddar<\/strong>, widely published in several countries, presently lives at Kolkata and is editor of the online magazine <em>Words Surfacing<\/em>. He authored <em>The Circus Came To My Island<\/em> (Spare Change Press, Ohio), <em>A Place For Your Ghost Animals<\/em> (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs), and <em>Understanding The Neighborhood<\/em> (BRP, Australia). His forthcoming venture is <em>Scratches Within.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KushalTheWriter\/\"> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KushalTheWriter\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Dead Stars On the old cable drops of oblivion settle in seriatim. Fog stills the sky. Smoke adds strokes to the mist. From a dusty What&#8217;s On The TV I gather death&#8217;s itinerary. &nbsp; &nbsp; Kushal Poddar, widely published in several countries, presently lives at Kolkata and is editor of the online [&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-14517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517","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=14517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14966,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14517\/revisions\/14966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}