{"id":19536,"date":"2019-07-19T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19536"},"modified":"2019-07-04T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:13:37","slug":"gareth-writer-davies-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gareth-writer-davies-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Writer-Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tooth &amp; Claw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the house reeks of rotting rats<br \/>\nwhich I guess is progress<\/p>\n<p>they had gotten bold<br \/>\nchewing through infrastructure, infesting the cavities<\/p>\n<p>and like family<br \/>\nwho can outstay a pre-arranged welcome<\/p>\n<p>nature is enough, through the window<br \/>\ntoo much, when sharing your home<\/p>\n<p>and to trap the bait<br \/>\nin well travelled passageways, was a friendly kind of slaughter<\/p>\n<p>now alone, I re-take my home<br \/>\nincense masks brutal nature<\/p>\n<p>one must be the master<br \/>\nrats are not beautiful<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gareth Writer-Davies<\/strong>: Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2014 and 2017)\u00a0 Commended Prole Laureate Competition (2015) Prole Laureate (2017) Commended Welsh Poetry Competition (2015) Highly Commended (2017)\u00a0 His collection <em>The Lover\u2019s Pinch (<\/em>Arenig Press) published \u00a02018. He is a Hawthorndon Fellow for 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Tooth &amp; Claw the house reeks of rotting rats which I guess is progress they had gotten bold chewing through infrastructure, infesting the cavities and like family who can outstay a pre-arranged welcome nature is enough, through the window too much, when sharing your home and to trap the bait in well travelled [&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-19536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536","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=19536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19538,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions\/19538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}