{"id":14806,"date":"2017-11-13T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14806"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:17:23","slug":"chris-hardy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/chris-hardy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Humiliated behind glass<br \/>\nblack, point nosed<br \/>\nBeluga Sturgeon,<br \/>\nfloat on a terrace.<\/p>\n<p>After the seminar<br \/>\nastronomers eat salad,<br \/>\nwatch stars flick on.<\/p>\n<p>I too am interested<br \/>\nin the Universe<br \/>\nbut cannot see past<\/p>\n<p>the cook picking up a glove<br \/>\nas grills glow red<br \/>\nin expectation.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>If we leave now<br \/>\nwe\u2019ll reach the sea<br \/>\ntomorrow,<\/p>\n<p>gathered above<br \/>\na deep blue gulf,<br \/>\nwhere nothing swims<\/p>\n<p>except ourselves<br \/>\nstick limbed<br \/>\nin the light filled surface<\/p>\n<p>looking down,<br \/>\nand wondering<br \/>\nif what we do not know<br \/>\nis there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27074\"><strong>Chris Hardy<\/strong>\u2019s poems have been published widely and have won prizes.\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27097\">His fourth collection will be published this year. He<\/span><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27082\">\u00a0is in LiTTLe MACHiNe, performing settings of poetry at literary festivals &#8211; <\/span><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27083\"><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27084\"><\/span><\/span><i id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27085\"><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27086\" lang=\"EN-US\"> best poetry band in the world <\/span><\/i><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27086\" lang=\"EN-US\">according to<\/span><i id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27085\"><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27086\" lang=\"EN-US\"> <\/span><\/i><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27087\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span id=\"m_5638044943594688045yui_3_16_0_1_1494955881110_27088\">Carol Ann Duffy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Rare Humiliated behind glass black, point nosed Beluga Sturgeon, float on a terrace. After the seminar astronomers eat salad, watch stars flick on. I too am interested in the Universe but cannot see past the cook picking up a glove as grills glow red in expectation. * If we leave now we\u2019ll reach [&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-14806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806","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=14806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14807,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions\/14807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}