{"id":14816,"date":"2017-11-16T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:55:14","slug":"kate-noakes-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kate-noakes-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Noakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The proof of being able to cook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s happening again.<br \/>\nI can feel fat<br \/>\nsettling around<br \/>\nmy hips, adipose<br \/>\nin my bones<br \/>\nmy scars stretching.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want it to set up home.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s as welcome<br \/>\nas a part-live frog<br \/>\ncat-left on a door mat<br \/>\nthat thrashes and gulps<br \/>\nits skin unable<br \/>\nto breathe<br \/>\nits ripped body spilling<br \/>\nguts into the pile<br \/>\na bilious experiment<br \/>\nin electricity.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t need a night-stalker<br \/>\nto bring me this gift<br \/>\nthis plenty. I must<br \/>\nseal my lips and burn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Noakes<\/strong>\u2018 fifth collection is <em>Tattoo on Crow Street<\/em> (Parthian, 2015). Her website (<a href=\"http:\/\/boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com\">boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com<\/a>) is archived by the National Library of Wales. She was elected to the Welsh Academy in 2011. She lives between Paris and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The proof of being able to cook It\u2019s happening again. I can feel fat settling around my hips, adipose in my bones my scars stretching. I don\u2019t want it to set up home. It\u2019s as welcome as a part-live frog cat-left on a door mat that thrashes and gulps its skin unable to breathe [&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-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","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=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14817,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}