{"id":20702,"date":"2019-12-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20702"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:58:08","slug":"lucy-ingrams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lucy-ingrams-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Ingrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>moonrise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>new chevrons\u00a0\u00a0 chalking<br \/>\nthe wind\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 two terns\u00a0\u00a0 re-<br \/>\nturned north\u00a0\u00a0 re-<br \/>\nvise the estuary\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 silvers<\/p>\n<p>rollers\u00a0\u00a0 far out\u00a0\u00a0 lumpen<br \/>\nwith seals\u00a0\u00a0 the links<br \/>\nhump\u00a0\u00a0 with bronze<br \/>\nhordes\u00a0 of whin<\/p>\n<p>the copters\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 relay<br \/>\nbelfries\u00a0\u00a0 the cloud<br \/>\npeels\u00a0\u00a0 &amp; slices<br \/>\nhalf-hours<\/p>\n<p>a mussel shell\u00a0\u00a0 tips<br \/>\non a cake\u00a0\u00a0 of sand\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 chink<br \/>\nof wave\u00a0\u00a0 in its bows\u00a0\u00a0 still<br \/>\nwaiting\u00a0\u00a0 to be bailed<\/p>\n<p>the horizon\u00a0\u00a0 offers<br \/>\nits quiet practice\u00a0\u00a0 its<br \/>\ndiffuse gaze \u00a0\u00a0a tanker<br \/>\nbreaks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my meditation<\/p>\n<p>&amp;\u00a0\u00a0 I am\u00a0\u00a0 night-<br \/>\nstartled\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2014<\/p>\n<p>over\u00a0\u00a0 the boatshed<br \/>\nflushed\u00a0\u00a0 &amp; full\u00a0\u00a0 how<br \/>\ndid I\u00a0\u00a0 miss<br \/>\nthe peony\u00a0\u00a0 moon<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 sways eastward\u00a0\u00a0 now<br \/>\nout towards\u00a0\u00a0 Norway<\/p>\n<p>its sun-mirror\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0 mirror<br \/>\nrusting\u00a0\u00a0 the current<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucy Ingrams<\/strong> won the Manchester Poetry Prize (2015) and the <i>Magma <\/i>Poetry Competition (2016). A pamphlet, <i>Light-fall<\/i>, is published by Flarestack Poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>moonrise new chevrons\u00a0\u00a0 chalking the wind\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 two terns\u00a0\u00a0 re- turned north\u00a0\u00a0 re- vise the estuary\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 silvers rollers\u00a0\u00a0 far out\u00a0\u00a0 lumpen with seals\u00a0\u00a0 the links hump\u00a0\u00a0 with bronze hordes\u00a0 of whin the copters\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 relay belfries\u00a0\u00a0 the cloud peels\u00a0\u00a0 &amp; slices half-hours a mussel shell\u00a0\u00a0 tips on a cake\u00a0\u00a0 of sand\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 chink of wave\u00a0\u00a0 in [&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-20702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702","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=20702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24192,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions\/24192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}