{"id":16215,"date":"2018-04-28T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16215"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:09:25","slug":"simon-williams-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/simon-williams-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bone Chemistry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Dishman broke his wrist<br \/>\nplaying squash or chess or somesuch,<br \/>\nbut didn\u2019t let it stop him with equations:<br \/>\nacid-base, displacements, the Haber process.<\/p>\n<p>He learnt to write on the blackboard with his left,<br \/>\na strange non-cursive script with crisp ascenders,<br \/>\nthe round-backed \u0404 of the Bauhaus,<br \/>\nwhile (Ca<sub>3<\/sub>(PO<sub>4<\/sub>)<sub>2<\/sub>) continued to precipitate.<\/p>\n<p>When the bone mended; radius or ulna<br \/>\n\u2013 why didn\u2019t we ask? \u2013 he would sometimes write<br \/>\nwith alternating hands; scripts with the right hand,<br \/>\nsinister subscripts with the other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Williams<\/strong> has eight published collections, his latest being a co-authored pamphlet with Susan Taylor, <em>The Weather House <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/williams-taylor\/4594076848\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/williams-taylor\/4594076848&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1522858133712000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGngiGQgtkIeLtf1gV_8pmbQTv5wg\">www.indigodreams.co.uk\/williams-taylor\/4594076848<\/a>, published in 2017 by Indigo Dreams which is also touring as a performance show. Simon was elected The Bard of Exeter in 2013 and founded the large-format magazine, <em>The Broadsheet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bone Chemistry Mr Dishman broke his wrist playing squash or chess or somesuch, but didn\u2019t let it stop him with equations: acid-base, displacements, the Haber process. He learnt to write on the blackboard with his left, a strange non-cursive script with crisp ascenders, the round-backed \u0404 of the Bauhaus, while (Ca3(PO4)2) continued [&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-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","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=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}