{"id":20260,"date":"2019-10-18T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20260"},"modified":"2019-10-17T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T12:47:47","slug":"jack-andrew-lenton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jack-andrew-lenton\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Andrew Lenton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blubberer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.&#8221;<br \/>\nIsaac Newton:<em> Brewster, Memoirs of Newton<\/em> (1855), vol II, Ch. 27<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s eighteen fifty<br \/>\nsomething: Polar<br \/>\nNorth, out here,<br \/>\nthere, only blue.<br \/>\nHefting fish barrels,<br \/>\nsloshing crates of<br \/>\nbear livers, eugh.<br \/>\nBored, the reds<br \/>\nof my eyes well up<br \/>\nnails splinter<br \/>\nlike I dragged them<br \/>\ndown the deck<br \/>\nhey-ho, work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Pearly sweat<br \/>\nlicks my nape<br \/>\nbites as it freezes<br \/>\nfrosting my fishstink.<br \/>\nFrom utterly<br \/>\nnowhere freights<br \/>\nof ice ghostship past,<br \/>\ncreaking<br \/>\nunder coldstar,<br \/>\nsharp hefts<br \/>\nthat bear up<br \/>\nlike teeth in the night<br \/>\nmore things in heaven n earth,<br \/>\nHorror-ratios and that<br \/>\nI quiver on bandy wood<\/p>\n<p>You may be suffering<br \/>\nFrom nematodes, raw<br \/>\nAcute Trichinosis<\/p>\n<p>Watch now, how<br \/>\nthe doctor\u2019s tricky worm<br \/>\nclacks against his palette<br \/>\nluminous chunk of moonblubber<br \/>\npay him no mind,<br \/>\nhis version of a hard day\u2019s work<br \/>\nis playing in guts.<\/p>\n<p>The men are grown silent,<br \/>\nbeds covered in hair,<br \/>\nskin peeled, we begin<br \/>\nto resemble our catch.<br \/>\nRocktongued, tightened<br \/>\nand tasting our own iron,<br \/>\nas if we sail just North<br \/>\nof the world\u2019s cold<br \/>\ndark throat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Jack Andrew Lenton<\/strong> currently works in London for Royal Museums Greenwich as a writer. Earlier this year, he had a first book published, <em>Kingdom of Mud<\/em> with Sky Burial press. The book is a dialogue in words and pictures (from London photographer, Shiri Lee Webb) the small pockets of wilderness left in the Norfolk landscape. His work has appeared in <em>Vice, Time Out<\/em> and was nominated for Canterbury Festival\u2019s Poet of the Year in 2017<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Blubberer &#8220;I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay [&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-20260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260","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=20260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20324,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20260\/revisions\/20324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}