{"id":17779,"date":"2018-11-19T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17779"},"modified":"2018-11-18T19:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T19:12:50","slug":"17779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/17779\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Totterdell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lampyris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stumbling along the lane<br \/>\nthrough a tunnel of grasping branches,<br \/>\nhe couldn\u2019t see his hand<br \/>\nin front of his face.<br \/>\nThis is no idle clich\u00e9<br \/>\nor exaggeration;<br \/>\nhe simply couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging in the open<br \/>\non the great limestone hillside,<br \/>\nhe stood enthralled<br \/>\nby all the small glimmers<br \/>\nlike soft, safe radium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Totterdell<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared widely in magazines and have occasionally won competitions. His collections are <em>This Patter of Traces<\/em> (Oversteps Books, 2014) and <em>Mapping<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/mark-totterdell\/4594336680\">Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2018<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Lampyris Stumbling along the lane through a tunnel of grasping branches, he couldn\u2019t see his hand in front of his face. This is no idle clich\u00e9 or exaggeration; he simply couldn\u2019t. Emerging in the open on the great limestone hillside, he stood enthralled by all the small glimmers like soft, safe radium. &nbsp; [&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-17779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779","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=17779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17850,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions\/17850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}