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Manuel, The Unfortunate<\/strong> Both sides of the story of your death <\/p>\n <\/p>\n William Kemp<\/strong> is a poet, broadcaster and arts professional from Plymouth, who works for the Dartington Hall Trust. He has written articles and reviews on a range of subjects, including jazz, folk and classical music, modern poetry and Shakespeare. He presents and produces a weekly arts show for Soundart Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manuel, The Unfortunate after Paula Rego\u2019s Last King of Portugal Both sides of the story of your death involve striped pyjamas, a maid and the deep rich red of your bedroom wallpaper. Was your outpost at Fullwell, Twickenham, private and secure enough to keep at bay those Republican activists who might by […]<\/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-19365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365","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=19365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19415,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19365\/revisions\/19415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nafter Paula Rego\u2019s Last King of Portuga<\/em>l<\/p>\n
\ninvolve striped pyjamas, a maid and the deep rich red
\nof your bedroom wallpaper. Was your outpost
\nat Fullwell, Twickenham, private and secure enough
\nto keep at bay those Republican activists
\nwho might by various means have poisoned you?
\nOr can we assume you over-exerted yourself
\none too many times at tennis, and in so doing
\nactivated some hereditary bronchial condition,
\nhitherto undetected, with fatal consequence?
\nNone at Scotland Yard had strength or means
\nto piece together the evidence either way.
\nGood night, sweet prince.
\nLet acrylic, graphite and pastel on paper,
\nmounted on aluminium, be your epitaph.<\/p>\n