{"id":20661,"date":"2019-12-07T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20661"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:45:47","slug":"matti-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matti-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Matti Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are changes I would like<br \/>\nto make and there are those that are<\/p>\n<p>made for me\u00a0\u00a0 pay attention to your<br \/>\nheart-beat which appears to happen by itself<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; little breath-bows to an\u00a0 unknown<br \/>\nsomehow recognized musician &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>and follow the giant skin-drum that floats<br \/>\nabove the world to the end you have<\/p>\n<p>desired for it \/ to that<br \/>\nnecessary conclusion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matti Spence<\/strong> is a poet and counsellor living on the edge of Dartmoor. He is co-creator of <em>Rites to Roam<\/em>, an interdisciplinary project which aims to explore how artists\/poets\/musicians connect to land through ritual and prayer. His collection <em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">When it comes to letting go of the image <\/span><\/em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">is available on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/When-comes-letting-go-image\/dp\/1999915356\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=matti+spence+poetry&amp;qid=1571227834&amp;sr=8-1\">here<\/a><\/span><em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; There are changes There are changes I would like to make and there are those that are made for me\u00a0\u00a0 pay attention to your heart-beat which appears to happen by itself &#8211; little breath-bows to an\u00a0 unknown somehow recognized musician &#8211; and follow the giant skin-drum that floats above the world [&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-20661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661","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=20661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20662,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20661\/revisions\/20662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}