{"id":2080,"date":"2012-04-02T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:35:53","slug":"a-new-poem-from-carole-bromley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/a-new-poem-from-carole-bromley\/","title":{"rendered":"A new poem from Carole Bromley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gran\u2019s Staircase<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her voice was ringing in my ears.<br \/>\nI was Violet Elizabeth Bott, screaming<br \/>\nand the burnt pan stood, unwashed,<br \/>\non the draining board.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d go to and fro through<br \/>\nthe shop door or into the kitchen<br \/>\nand, halfway up the stairs,<br \/>\nI\u2019d be watching. In that house<\/p>\n<p>I was always sick. Swallowing can be<br \/>\nso hard. You have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carole Bromley<\/strong> has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and she has won a number of prizes, including the Bridport. Her first collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrybusiness.co.uk\/index.php\/a-guided-tour-of-the-ice-house-carole-bromley\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Guided Tour of the Ice House<\/em>,<\/a> was published by Smith\/Doorstop in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gran\u2019s Staircase Her voice was ringing in my ears. I was Violet Elizabeth Bott, screaming and the burnt pan stood, unwashed, on the draining board. She\u2019d go to and fro through the shop door or into the kitchen and, halfway up the stairs, I\u2019d be watching. In that house I was always sick. Swallowing can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}