{"id":18924,"date":"2019-04-18T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18924"},"modified":"2019-04-18T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:45:17","slug":"mhairi-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/mhairi-owens\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Strange Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something floating in the Brayford Pool.<br \/>\nTwo swans, raw recruits, investigate. As a sub-plot,<br \/>\none showboats the other. The pen ignores him.<\/p>\n<p>Two high-viz guys in a high-viz launch circle,<br \/>\ndecide it\u2019s possibly wood, not a body, outside their jurisdiction.<br \/>\nThey pitch up at the wharf and go for noodles.<\/p>\n<p>A boater in a narrow boat motors in,<br \/>\none of those specialist detectives with another life.<br \/>\nThe object has sunk without trace. We\u2019ll need divers now.<\/p>\n<p>The swans return with a forensic swan,<br \/>\nthough not a good one, as he has no bow tie.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ve wasted his time; he wants his lab and some Roquefort.<\/p>\n<p>I watch this from a solicitor\u2019s window;<br \/>\nshe may not have seen this lucrative opportunity.<br \/>\nWe sit and talk of house repairs, tax implications.<\/p>\n<p>In the deep waters of the Brayford Pool<br \/>\na mystery unfolds. Will we have to drain the basin?<br \/>\nWhere is a cormorant when you need one?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Simon Williams<\/b> has eight published collections, his latest being a co-authored pamphlet with Susan Taylor, <i>The Weather House <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/williams-taylor\/4594076848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/williams-taylor\/4594076848&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1554915728739000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGoPp9RHPTfT7448lYXyrlnQJwLZw\">www.indigodreams.co.uk\/<wbr \/>williams-taylor\/4594076848<\/a>, published in 2017 by Indigo Dreams. This is also touring as a performance show. Simon was elected The Bard of Exeter in 2013, founded the large-format magazine, <i>The Broadsheet <\/i>and produced the well-received<i> PLAY <\/i>Anthology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Strange Case There\u2019s something floating in the Brayford Pool. Two swans, raw recruits, investigate. As a sub-plot, one showboats the other. The pen ignores him. Two high-viz guys in a high-viz launch circle, decide it\u2019s possibly wood, not a body, outside their jurisdiction. They pitch up at the wharf and go [&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-18924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924","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=18924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18989,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18924\/revisions\/18989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}