{"id":18408,"date":"2019-02-11T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18408"},"modified":"2019-02-10T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:10:47","slug":"paul-connolly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/paul-connolly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Connolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bluebells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A becalmed sea, the patient files<br \/>\nof Bluebell Revolutionaries<br \/>\nsoftly jostle in the nettles,<br \/>\na flashpoint which, stored beneath<br \/>\nlike hope, softly bursts<br \/>\neach year afresh, to remind us<br \/>\nof possibility, renewed urge<br \/>\nand of a final blight-sweet fragrance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As well as contributing to <em>Ink Sweat and Tears<\/em>, <strong>Paul Connolly<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has appeared in <em>Agenda, The Warwick Review, Poetry Salzburg, The Reader, Scintilla,<\/em> and numerous other periodicals. Shortlisted for the Bridport and Charles Causley Prizes, he was third in the Magna Carta Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bluebells A becalmed sea, the patient files of Bluebell Revolutionaries softly jostle in the nettles, a flashpoint which, stored beneath like hope, softly bursts each year afresh, to remind us of possibility, renewed urge and of a final blight-sweet fragrance. &nbsp; &nbsp; As well as contributing to Ink Sweat and Tears, Paul [&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-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408","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=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18488,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions\/18488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}