{"id":18057,"date":"2018-12-30T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18057"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:22:16","slug":"18057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/18057\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Ninth Day of Christmas, we bring you Reuben Woolley, Debbie Strange, Luigi Coppola"},"content":{"rendered":"

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another blue requiem<\/strong><\/p>\n

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see this she says<\/p>\n

my autonomous shadows dancing<\/p>\n

distant<\/p>\n

from any sun i know \/ a different step<\/p>\n

& still<\/p>\n

december<\/p>\n

are lights<\/p>\n

in all these histories &<\/p>\n

children<\/p>\n

grow old & die<\/p>\n

just the same she says<\/p>\n

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Reuben Woolley<\/strong><\/a> has been published in quite a few magazines, such as Tears in the Fence, Lighthouse, The Interpreter’s House, IS&T, Proletarian Poetry,<\/em> and in the anthology The Dizziness of Freedom.<\/em> He has five books to his name, the most recent one is\u00a0some time we are heroes<\/em> with The Corrupt Press. Another book is to be published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press in 2019, this hall of several tortures<\/em>. Editor of I am not a silent poet<\/em> and The Curly Mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

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fog deepens
\nthe sound of rabbits
\nnibbling night<\/p>\n

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on the tundra
\ncaging a winter sky
\ncaribou bones<\/p>\n

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snowy field
\nthe owls we thought
\nwere stones<\/p>\n

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Debbie Strange<\/strong> <\/a>is an internationally published short form poet and haiga artist from Canada. Her most recent\u00a0books include the chapbook, A Year Unfolding<\/em> (Folded World 2017) and the full-length collection,\u00a0Three-Part Harmony: Tanka Verses<\/em> (Keibooks 2018). :<\/p>\n

Note: these haiku were placed respectively in the following competitions: Grand Prize, 2016 World Haiku Competition: 3rd Place, 2014 United Haiku and Tanka Society Hortensia Anderson Haiku Awards:Honourable Mention, 2017 Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition<\/p>\n

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The Harvester<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a darkness coming
\na little at first, just ahead of the rest<\/p>\n

His breath is a slow yawn
\nit draws in a shade
\na cold and a rustling
\neverything sleeping, drying<\/p>\n

An idiot-ox striding
\nhis March drawing blood from flower
\nherb from hand<\/p>\n

The stampede lasts for months<\/p>\n

He is the Harvester
\nhoof and horn
\ngiggling and dribbling<\/p>\n

with the sun on his back
\nand snow in his mouth<\/p>\n

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Luigi Coppola<\/strong><\/a> has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize twice, appeared in Worple Press\u2019s The Tree Line <\/em>anthology and has print and online publications, including in Acumen, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Iota, Magma <\/em>and The Rialto\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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                another blue requiem   see this she says my autonomous shadows dancing distant from any sun i know \/ a different step & still december are lights in all these histories & children grow old & die just the same she says       Reuben Woolley […]<\/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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057","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=18057"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18158,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18057\/revisions\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}