{"id":16296,"date":"2018-05-28T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16296"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:36:32","slug":"derek-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/derek-adam\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Auto-da-f\u00e9<\/b><br \/>\n<i>(London 1955)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the mirror<br \/>\nof fitting room at Harvey Nichols.<br \/>\nI am wearing a black sanbenito<\/p>\n<p>by Tom\u00e1s de Torquemada,<br \/>\ndecorated with devils<br \/>\nfrom my past.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the London streets are foggy,<br \/>\nin Lewes they will already<br \/>\nbe stacking wood for bonfire night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Derek Adams<\/strong> is a professional photographer. He has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, and published three poetry collections. Currently writing a series of poems about American photographer Lee Miller. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.derek-adams.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.derek-adams.co.uk\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1523009926070000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEU_RaxdbTF-q4o-Hk51-0fWCSqlw\">www.derek-adams.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Auto-da-f\u00e9 (London 1955) In the mirror of fitting room at Harvey Nichols. I am wearing a black sanbenito by Tom\u00e1s de Torquemada, decorated with devils from my past. Outside the London streets are foggy, in Lewes they will already be stacking wood for bonfire night. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Derek [&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-16296","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\/16296","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=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16614,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions\/16614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}