{"id":17237,"date":"2018-10-14T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17237"},"modified":"2018-08-07T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T08:28:20","slug":"kate-noakes-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kate-noakes-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Noakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I can feel trouble in my bones<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIn my red, fringed bow ballerinas<br \/>\nI can feel surfaces again<\/p>\n<p>hardness unyielding<br \/>\nto my toes, each pebble<\/p>\n<p>conglomerated in the stub slabs<br \/>\nof the business district<\/p>\n<p>each trip cobble defining<br \/>\nmy quartier\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n<p>This week the road menders<br \/>\nwere out fixing winter\u2019s siege<\/p>\n<p>the actions of frost and thaw<br \/>\nstones cemented into place<\/p>\n<p>just in case they\u2019re plucked<br \/>\nand smashed, a ready arsenal<\/p>\n<p>to launch against false order<br \/>\nrighteousness against women<\/p>\n<p>and those, oh so many, causes<br \/>\ntouching us these spring days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Noakes<\/strong>&#8216; seventh collection, <em>The Filthy Quie<\/em>t, is due from Parthian in Spring 2019. Her website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1532938829970000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGZZqQWM15mMwvkV8QNsOoHzrrbYg\">www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.<wbr \/>com<\/a>, is archived by the National Library of Wales. She lives in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I can feel trouble in my bones \u00a0 In my red, fringed bow ballerinas I can feel surfaces again hardness unyielding to my toes, each pebble conglomerated in the stub slabs of the business district each trip cobble defining my quartier\u2019s streets. This week the road menders were out fixing winter\u2019s siege [&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-17237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237","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=17237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17564,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions\/17564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}