{"id":16050,"date":"2018-03-09T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2018-03-09T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T09:30:05","slug":"to-round-out-our-celebration-of-international-womens-day-a-new-poem-from-ist-editor-helen-ivory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/to-round-out-our-celebration-of-international-womens-day-a-new-poem-from-ist-editor-helen-ivory\/","title":{"rendered":"To Round Out our Celebration of International Women’s Day, a New Poem from IS&T Editor Helen Ivory."},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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Six Signs You Might Be a Slattern<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you a little draggle-tail;<\/p>\n

do your skirts bedevil leavings from the gutter?<\/p>\n

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When you take a turn around the park<\/p>\n

do bitches bevy close and claim you kin?<\/p>\n

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Are you wanton in your daily intercourse,<\/p>\n

your ankles grimed, your lips stained cochineal?<\/p>\n

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And how\u2019s your baking lately \u2013<\/p>\n

is your dough a coffer for slut\u2019s pennies?<\/p>\n

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Do you hear ill-clamouring in your breast,<\/p>\n

is there a midden where your heart should sit?<\/p>\n

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When a caller raps, does your front door<\/p>\n

acquiesce directly, the catch already sprung?<\/p>\n

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Helen Ivory<\/strong>\u2019s fourth Bloodaxe collection is Waiting for Bluebeard<\/i><\/a>. She teaches online for the UEA\/WCN creative writing programme. Fool\u2019s World ,\u00a0<\/i>a Tarot\u00a0(with artist Tom de Freston)\u00a0won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award.\u00a0 A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me<\/i><\/a> is out from KFS.<\/p>\n

Note: This poem is from ‘The Anatomical Venus’, which is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Six Signs You Might Be a Slattern \u00a0 Are you a little draggle-tail; do your skirts bedevil leavings from the gutter?   When you take a turn around the park do bitches bevy close and claim you kin?   Are you wanton in your daily intercourse, your ankles grimed, your lips stained cochineal? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-16050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16055,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}