{"id":16144,"date":"2018-04-21T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16144"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:31:35","slug":"joseph-carrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joseph-carrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Carrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scrappedbooks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China fragments sank into the ceiling pond.<br \/>\nDrifts of weaponised magazines rose<br \/>\nfrom the grass. Ochre splashed<br \/>\nwith primary blocks,<br \/>\nexclamation marks<\/p>\n<p>the outline sharp, even through the brume.<br \/>\nAn upturned caravan echoes<br \/>\na tombstone. Pulped<br \/>\npaper flowers.<br \/>\nWilted<\/p>\n<p>condolences surrounded the shrine. Jagged<br \/>\nwindow holes gaped. I heard the<br \/>\nshot splintered one pane<br \/>\nafter it left the skull<br \/>\nhalf empty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Joseph Carrigan<\/strong> studied in Oxford and received a BA (hons) in Critical Practice and Creative Writing. He has lived in America and Japan, and currently lives in the UK, where he works as a teacher of English as a foreign language.<span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Scrappedbooks China fragments sank into the ceiling pond. Drifts of weaponised magazines rose from the grass. Ochre splashed with primary blocks, exclamation marks the outline sharp, even through the brume. An upturned caravan echoes a tombstone. Pulped paper flowers. Wilted condolences surrounded the shrine. Jagged window holes gaped. I heard the shot splintered [&hellip;]<\/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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16144","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\/16144","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=16144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16159,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16144\/revisions\/16159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}