{"id":20055,"date":"2019-09-20T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:15:11","slug":"helen-pletts-romit-berger-with-a-schoolstrike4climate-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/helen-pletts-romit-berger-with-a-schoolstrike4climate-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Pletts &#038; Romit Berger on the Day of the Global Climate Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PlettsClimateStrike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20056\" src=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/PlettsClimateStrike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>freshwater bio sonar boto<\/b><\/p>\n<p>freshwater bio sonar boto<br \/>\nover-hunted through the flooded forests<\/p>\n<p>agile Amazon pinkness with tactile whiskers<\/p>\n<p>tiny-spiny dolphin-teeth murky-snouting<br \/>\nred bellied piranhas, croakers and catfish<\/p>\n<p>#climatestrike \u00a0#schoolstrike4climate #fridaysforfuture #climatecrisis #gretathunberg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Pletts<\/strong> (www.helenpletts.com ) whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are published by YWO\/Legend Press (supported by The Arts Council) and available on Amazon. \u2018Bottle bank\u2019 was longlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize 2006, under Helen\u2019s maiden name, Bannister. Also published in Aesthetica, Orbis, The Fenland Reed. Working collaboratively on Word and Image (published exclusively by <a href=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/?cat=109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.inksweatandtears.co.uk<\/a>) with Romit Berger, illustrator, since 2012. Helen\u2019s poetry was longlisted for The Rialto Nature and Place Competition 2018 and shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize in 2018. Helen\u2019s poem The Grey Seal Speaks was selected in 2019 for the climate change awareness anthology entitled \u2018Planet in Peril\u2019 available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk\/planet-in-peril\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk\/planet-in-peril<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image by <strong>Romit Berger<\/strong> who says\u00a0 \u201cI am a graphic designer. I met my very dear friend, Helen Pletts, in Prague, several years ago. Helen\u2019s inspiration has led my graphic design career into that magical realm which combines illustration and poetry, and our creative wings continue to connect our souls through time and distance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>freshwater bio sonar boto freshwater bio sonar boto over-hunted through the flooded forests agile Amazon pinkness with tactile whiskers tiny-spiny dolphin-teeth murky-snouting red bellied piranhas, croakers and catfish #climatestrike \u00a0#schoolstrike4climate #fridaysforfuture #climatecrisis #gretathunberg &nbsp; &nbsp; Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com ) whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are published by YWO\/Legend Press (supported [&hellip;]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055","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=20055"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21022,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions\/21022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}