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Hop Picking<\/strong><\/p>\n Dickens sees bodies wet in the hedges, But for Eileen one January morning, hops They were let out early <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carolyn Oulton<\/strong> (www.carolynoulton.co.uk<\/a>) is Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her most recent collection Accidental Frui<\/a>t<\/em> is published by Worple Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hop Picking Dickens sees bodies wet in the hedges, hop dust is believed to cure consumption. Eden Phillpotts, writing in 1916, starts with sunshine and deft fingered girls. By the 1930s and Orwell it\u2019s blood all over the fingers and chaff in the throat. But for Eileen one January morning, hops nailed […]<\/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-17205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205","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=17205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17450,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17205\/revisions\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhop dust is believed to cure consumption.
\nEden Phillpotts, writing in 1916,
\nstarts with sunshine and deft fingered girls.
\nBy the 1930s and Orwell it\u2019s blood
\nall over the fingers and chaff in the throat.<\/p>\n
\nnailed to the ceiling brittle as dust,
\nin the home where she now lives?
\nHer school at one end of Canterbury
\nwas bombed. I didn\u2019t know
\nit had a chapel.<\/p>\n
\nfor hop picking. Wincheap.
\nI\u2019ve got smoke-stained alleys
\nand the carpet shop. Like a holiday
\nshe says, she could go there
\nnow and see it all again.<\/p>\n