{"id":1654,"date":"2009-04-05T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2009-04-05T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:10:00","slug":"two-new-podcasts-by-helen-pletts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-new-podcasts-by-helen-pletts\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new podcasts by Helen Pletts"},"content":{"rendered":"

We're pleased to announce that we've got two new poems + accompanying podcasts by on of IS&T's staunchest supports Helen Pletts…<\/span>


The man who left this face on me<\/span>
  <\/span>
The man who left this face on me;<\/span>
this grey<\/span>
(no, i\u2019m not impatient waiting for the bus,<\/span>

the bus will come)<\/span>
but the man who left this face on me<\/span>
is gone.<\/p>\n


<\/span>

Don\u2019t try to change the course of Cuban history<\/span>

By sending exploding cigars, an agent <\/span>
with a pen-syringe, approaching underworld figures<\/span>
to carry out a killing, placing high explosives<\/span>
under the speaker\u2019s podium, recruiting<\/span>

an old classmate to shoot someone dead <\/span>
in the street in broad daylight, enlisting <\/span>
a former lover as an assassin <\/span>
armed with poison pills, buying Caribbean<\/span>

molluscs with a view to planting explosives<\/span>
in the largest shell, preparing <\/span>
a skin disease infected diving suit, <\/span>
making bacterial poisons <\/span>

to be placed in a handkerchief or <\/span>
in a cup of tea or coffee, rigging up<\/span>
a radio station with noxious gas, using snipers,<\/span>
blowing up an airliner.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

To hear these poems either click on the control buttons in the player panels or on the paperclip attachments icon.
<\/span>
<\/font>*
\nHelen Pletts is a regular IS&T contributor. She was born in the UK
\nbut now lives in Prague in the Czech Republic, where she teaches
\ncreative writing. You are welcome to visit www.stem-of-quietly-disarrayed-fertility.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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We're pleased to announce that we've got two new poems + accompanying podcasts by on of IS&T's staunchest supports Helen Pletts…The man who left this face on me  The man who left this face on me;this grey(no, i\u2019m not impatient waiting for the bus,the bus will come)but the man who left this face on meis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}