{"id":19345,"date":"2019-06-17T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19345"},"modified":"2020-12-17T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:50:33","slug":"vote-for-your-pick-of-the-month-for-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/vote-for-your-pick-of-the-month-for-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for your Pick of the Month for May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you just need to make a stand and in many ways that is what we are seeing from our shortlisted poets for May’s Pick of the Month. Tristan Moss’<\/strong>s hero in ‘Origins’ is all about [holding] the origin of all things\/above her wish to have them…’ Clementine E. Burnley<\/strong>‘s ‘Because’ demands that we take notice of\u00a0 ‘… a woman standing barefoot at the airport,\/in pajamas and handcuffs’ and so much more.<\/p>\n

‘Cerebellum (a secular prayer to the vacuum)’ by Matt Nicholson<\/strong>, is lighter in tone but no less importunate – ‘teach me to be emancipated,\/to be satisfied…’ Avril Joy<\/strong>‘s ‘Aztec Love Song for Uprooted Flowers’ is dedicated to women in prison ‘buds unopened, roses full-blown\/discarded, trampled on…’ while Harriet Jae<\/strong>, in her ‘Bid for Freedom’ seeks to ‘outleap these bounds in outlaw song.’ Perhaps only Mhairi Owens<\/strong> in her dark and haunting ‘Hippocampus’ bows to the inevitable: ‘But that\u2019s something that lives where light doesn\u2019t.\/It appears in the deceptive netting\/of its own flesh…’ Or does she?<\/p>\n

Whatever your choice – and all can be found below or by clicking on \u2018Vote for your May 2019 Pick of the Month\u2032 in the Categories list to your right on the screen – these works will not leave you.<\/p>\n

Voting has now closed. The winner will be announced on Thursday 27th June at 4pm BST.<\/p>\n

The winner each month will be sent a \u00a310 book giftcard or, if preferred, a donation of the same amount will be made to a chosen charity. In the event of the winner being from outside the UK mainland, we will make every effort to provide a reasonable alternative. All shortlisted poetry Picks, provided they remain unpublished and meet other eligibility criteria, will be considered as IS&T submissions for the annual Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. (\u2018Frequency Violet\u2019 by Kate Edwards was a Pick of the Month for November 2017 and was Highly Commended by the 2018 judges. It features in The Forward Book of Poetry 2019.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you just need to make a stand and in many ways that is what we are seeing from our shortlisted poets for May’s Pick of the Month. Tristan Moss’s hero in ‘Origins’ is all about [holding] the origin of all things\/above her wish to have them…’ Clementine E. Burnley‘s ‘Because’ demands that we take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19345"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19505,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19345\/revisions\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}