{"id":20297,"date":"2019-10-27T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20297"},"modified":"2019-10-26T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:34:38","slug":"beth-mcdonough-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/beth-mcdonough-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth McDonough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>After Kirrie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We sat-nav under cloud,<br \/>\nwhich might or might not burn off,<br \/>\nadder our way up Glen Isla.<\/p>\n<p>Through the churchless conundrum<br \/>\nof Kirkton of Kingoldrum<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s consider an uncertain saint&#8217;s well.<\/p>\n<p>Slungback Backwater&#8217;s comforts<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t be enough. Pass misty thick<br \/>\nBalintore&#8217;s family hamlet. Just find a name.<\/p>\n<p>We know we no longer count on Inch<br \/>\nas a hard place deep in the marsh.<br \/>\nSo how will we know when the loch comes close?<br \/>\nBridgend of Lintrathen offers half-truths.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s search for falls. We&#8217;re not yet lost enough<br \/>\nto realise how very lost we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beth McDonough<\/strong>&#8216;s work connects strongly with place, particularly to the Tay, where she swims. <em>Handfast<\/em> (with Ruth Aylett) investigates experiences of autism and dementia. Her first pamphlet, <em>Lamping for pickled fish<\/em>, was published in September 2019 by 4Word Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; After Kirrie &nbsp; We sat-nav under cloud, which might or might not burn off, adder our way up Glen Isla. Through the churchless conundrum of Kirkton of Kingoldrum let&#8217;s consider an uncertain saint&#8217;s well. Slungback Backwater&#8217;s comforts can&#8217;t be enough. Pass misty thick Balintore&#8217;s family hamlet. Just find a name. We know [&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-20297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297","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=20297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20400,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}