{"id":20551,"date":"2019-11-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20551"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T08:37:49","slug":"james-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/james-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"James Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The late blackberries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The late blackberries come ripe this year,<br \/>\nbursting little beasties<br \/>\nslick with the devil\u2019s spit.<\/p>\n<p>We come home gorse pricked<br \/>\nand spittle flicked<br \/>\nand happy for the yearning.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your high-rise monoliths.<br \/>\nI apologise- I truly do-<br \/>\nbut I see no beauty there.<\/p>\n<p>This.<br \/>\nThis and all and only.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Dixon<\/strong> a novelist, playwright and poet based in Glasgow. His debut novel, T<em>he unrivalled transcendence of Willem J. Gyle<\/em> (Thistle, 2017) was shortlisted for the 2018 Somerset Maugham Award by the Society of Authors and his first collection of poems, &#8216;They Being (Being There)&#8217; has just been accepted by Jersey Devil Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The late blackberries The late blackberries come ripe this year, bursting little beasties slick with the devil\u2019s spit. We come home gorse pricked and spittle flicked and happy for the yearning. Keep your high-rise monoliths. I apologise- I truly do- but I see no beauty there. This. This and all and only. [&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-20551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551","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=20551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20584,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions\/20584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}