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New Beginnings\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We watched a man chase rainbows off the estate<\/p>\n a starched pattern circled his greased back hair<\/p>\n sipping a boiler maker with a brandy chaser,<\/p>\n a glass of Cherry B for the wife.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We were immortals in the garden of cement<\/p>\n packed bullet shells inside our coats –<\/p>\n ran from darts of hay-fever that chased us over crow stalking quarries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stumbled through chalk white dog-white<\/p>\n arriving home before our nighty clout,<\/p>\n we never questioned the ways things were<\/p>\n how the screams every Friday night next door got louder<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grew into an age when the world was going to end<\/p>\n the president was an actor the prime minister a woman,<\/p>\n it seemed that anything was possible for the Children of Thatcher.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Matt Duggan<\/strong> is a Bristol born poet his poems have appeared in many journals. In 2015 he\u00a0won the Erbacce Prize for Poetry with his first full collection Dystopia 38.10<\/em> (erbacce-press) and in 2016 won the Into the Void Poetry Prize, with his poem \u2018Elegy for Magdalene\u2019. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0He was made a core \u2013 member at erbacce-press in 2017 and helps the press with their annual poetry competition plus contributing to their journal, Matt also has two new chapbooks available \u2018One Million Tiny Cut<\/span>s\u2019 (Clare Song Birds Publishing House) and due out in April 2018 \u2018A Season in Another World\u2019 (Thirty West Publishing House).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Beginnings\u00a0\u00a0 We watched a man chase rainbows off the estate a starched pattern circled his greased back hair sipping a boiler maker with a brandy chaser, a glass of Cherry B for the wife. We were immortals in the garden of cement packed bullet shells inside our coats – ran […]<\/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-15829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829","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=15829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15830,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions\/15830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}