{"id":20377,"date":"2019-11-07T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20377"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:50:24","slug":"carole-bromley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/carole-bromley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole Bromley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Day his Father Left<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He had to write about yesterday. How could he,<br \/>\ngiven what had happened? And how was it possible<br \/>\nto write about anything else? His classmates\u2019 pens<br \/>\nwere already moving, writing about the ordinary.<br \/>\nHis pen was still. He looked down at it,<br \/>\nlike an animal he\u2019d never yet encountered,<br \/>\nan animal that could do anything with one swish<br \/>\nof its tail. An animal that was nothing to do with him.<br \/>\nAnd also everything. Then the pen began to move.<br \/>\nIt could say exactly what it wanted so it wrote<br \/>\nabout his father\u2019s birthday, the movie,<br \/>\nthe chocolate cake, the blowing out of candles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carole Bromley<\/strong> lives in York. Winner of 2019 Hamish Canham Award, she has a new collection\u00a0due out from Valley Press in 2020 and a pamphlet, <em>Sodium 136<\/em>, is published by Calder Valley Poetry this month. Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk\/\">www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Twitter @CaroleBromley1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Day his Father Left He had to write about yesterday. How could he, given what had happened? And how was it possible to write about anything else? His classmates\u2019 pens were already moving, writing about the ordinary. His pen was still. He looked down at it, like an animal he\u2019d never [&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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377","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=20377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20469,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions\/20469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}