{"id":20673,"date":"2019-12-11T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20673"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:03:05","slug":"ruth-hanchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ruth-hanchett\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Hanchett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That\u2019s me<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>After Woman in a Hat (Olga)<\/em> 1935:\u00a0 Pablo Picasso.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Woman in a hat, nineteen thirty five,<br \/>\nthat\u2019s me, something of a clown off balance<br \/>\nminus the bold red lips, just a squiffy<br \/>\nslit of a mouth set in a crescent moon<br \/>\nof nauseous green and with black egg-yolks<br \/>\nfor eyes, pupils staring in startlement.<\/p>\n<p>He has given me a fragile air, topped<br \/>\nwith a hat like twinned borlotti beans, purple<br \/>\non the brown dark of my sculpted hair,<br \/>\nface constrained into angular anguish,<br \/>\nmy whole head precarious in sorrow<br \/>\non a mere point of a neck &#8211; yet resting<\/p>\n<p>on pyramidic shoulders rising seamlessly<br \/>\nfrom the black dress of a queen, no has-been.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruth Hanchett<\/strong> uses various poetic forms on a range of subjects. She won the Segora Poetry Competition 2016 and has been published widely as in Artemis and Acumen. Her debut pamphlet <em>Some Effects of Brilliance<\/em> was published in June 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s me After Woman in a Hat (Olga) 1935:\u00a0 Pablo Picasso. &nbsp; Woman in a hat, nineteen thirty five, that\u2019s me, something of a clown off balance minus the bold red lips, just a squiffy slit of a mouth set in a crescent moon of nauseous green and with black egg-yolks for eyes, pupils staring [&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-20673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","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=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24201,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions\/24201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}