{"id":15489,"date":"2018-01-29T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2018-01-26T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:36:09","slug":"maureen-cullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/maureen-cullen\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Cullen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alcluith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From cobbler shop to castle<br \/>\nI follow the Leven\u2019s path<\/p>\n<p>by a row of bilious bobbins<br \/>\ncurfuffle of white feather<\/p>\n<p>over sand, dent and hummock<br \/>\nthe skitter-scuff of shingle<\/p>\n<p>to a ridge bolstered by slate<br \/>\nwired for the cuff of the Clyde \u2013<\/p>\n<p>whipped on by clamouring gulls<br \/>\nclipped by whirligig cagoule<\/p>\n<p>I take shelter at Levengrove<br \/>\nunder crack and clack of wood<\/p>\n<p>forge a foothold in root<br \/>\ncling to the cord of Alcluith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maureen Cullen<\/strong> has an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University. In 2016, she was published along with three other poets in Primers 1, a collaboration between Nine Arches Press and the Poetry School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Alcluith From cobbler shop to castle I follow the Leven\u2019s path by a row of bilious bobbins curfuffle of white feather over sand, dent and hummock the skitter-scuff of shingle to a ridge bolstered by slate wired for the cuff of the Clyde \u2013 whipped on by clamouring gulls clipped by whirligig [&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-15489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489","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=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15490,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions\/15490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}