{"id":19082,"date":"2019-05-23T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19082"},"modified":"2019-04-27T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T12:10:39","slug":"19082","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/19082\/","title":{"rendered":"Clair Chilvers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The book of death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each night I craft<br \/>\nthe perfect poem<br \/>\na device for sleep<\/p>\n<p>or when I wake<br \/>\nin those dark hours<br \/>\nto find the world<\/p>\n<p>a fearful place<br \/>\nI think of rhymes<br \/>\nand common measure<\/p>\n<p>this morning<br \/>\nonly a fragment<br \/>\njust the perfect title<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clair Chilvers<\/strong> was a cancer scientist. She started writing poetry at age 70. She lives in Gloucestershire and was inspired by UA Fanthorpe. Her work has been described as \u2018powerful and moving&#8217; by Anna Saunders founder of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The book of death Each night I craft the perfect poem a device for sleep or when I wake in those dark hours to find the world a fearful place I think of rhymes and common measure this morning only a fragment just the perfect title &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Clair Chilvers was [&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-19082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082","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=19082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19084,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19082\/revisions\/19084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}