{"id":17999,"date":"2018-12-21T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17999"},"modified":"2018-12-21T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:08:32","slug":"pete-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/pete-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three tanka from Staithes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This busy half-hour \u2014<br \/>\na heron has come and gone,<br \/>\ngauzy fog grown dense,<br \/>\nrising tide of afternoon<br \/>\ngained an inch against my boot<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>On the darkened beach,<br \/>\nlamplight from a single room<br \/>\nin a bungalow<br \/>\ncut loose on the clifftop&#8217;s fold<br \/>\nreaches down to us like stars<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>All I know is that<br \/>\ndriftwood lifted from the sand<br \/>\nto burn in the stove<br \/>\nof our borrowed cottage is<br \/>\nthe crowning of all my poems<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Pete Green<\/strong> is a Sheffield-based poet and musician. Their work has appeared in <i>The Fenland Reed<\/i>, <i>The Interpreter&#8217;s House<\/i>, <i>Caught by the River<\/i> and elsewhere, and a debut pamphlet <i>Sheffield Almanac<\/i> is published by Longbarrow Press. See <a href=\"http:\/\/petegreensolo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/petegreensolo.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1544802399529000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHi_BvNfSL4g4f0g36iG233YUO3QA\">petegreensolo.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Three tanka from Staithes This busy half-hour \u2014 a heron has come and gone, gauzy fog grown dense, rising tide of afternoon gained an inch against my boot * On the darkened beach, lamplight from a single room in a bungalow cut loose on the clifftop&#8217;s fold reaches down to us like stars [&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-17999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999","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=17999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18097,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999\/revisions\/18097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}