{"id":15661,"date":"2018-02-07T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15661"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:33:13","slug":"15661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/15661\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Irigaray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drunken Roses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The curtains&#8217; psychedelic pattern<br \/>\nis the only touch of sunshine<br \/>\nin this flat.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond them, two artificial moons<br \/>\nradiate tumours<br \/>\nin the cemented garden<\/p>\n<p>and the city&#8217;s carrot bricks<br \/>\nare prison walls<br \/>\npinching the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, heads drooping,<br \/>\nhunchback roses<br \/>\nrecover from a hangover.<\/p>\n<p>This title evokes a still life<br \/>\nor a Baudelaire poem<br \/>\nbut lacks his genius.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julie Irigaray<\/strong> has been published in <i>Southword<\/i>, <i>Shearsman, Mslexia, <\/i>and <i>Tears in the Fence<\/i>. She won third prize in the 2017 Winchester Writers\u2019 Festival Competition and was shortlisted for The Yeovil Prize 2017 and <i>The London Magazine <\/i>Poetry Prize 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Drunken Roses The curtains&#8217; psychedelic pattern is the only touch of sunshine in this flat. Beyond them, two artificial moons radiate tumours in the cemented garden and the city&#8217;s carrot bricks are prison walls pinching the sky. Inside, heads drooping, hunchback roses recover from a hangover. This title evokes a still life or [&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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661","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=15661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15666,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661\/revisions\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}