{"id":2102,"date":"2012-04-05T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2012-04-05T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:00:30","slug":"a-taster-and-the-title-poem-from-our-own-helen-ivorys-next-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/a-taster-and-the-title-poem-from-our-own-helen-ivorys-next-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"A taster and the title poem from our own Helen Ivory&#8217;s next collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Waiting for Bluebeard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The child in the garden wears a coat<br \/>\ncollaged from the skins of paper,<br \/>\nsutured with lengths of my hair.<br \/>\nI am inside the house<br \/>\nin a matching coat.<\/p>\n<p>There is no one to tell us not to;<br \/>\ncalled here, as we were<br \/>\nby the <em>halloo<\/em> of peacocks<br \/>\nwho turned tail<br \/>\nthe day we arrived.<\/p>\n<p>We are waiting for Bluebeard,<br \/>\nand when he happens here<br \/>\nin his grey-silver car,<br \/>\nhe will unleash wolves<br \/>\nlike rain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Ivory&#8217;s<\/strong> fourth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/personpage.asp?author=Helen+Ivory\" target=\"_blank\">Bloodaxe <\/a>collection Waiting for Bluebeard is due next year.\u00a0She is also an artist and regularly posts new work on her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenivory.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.helenivory.co.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Waiting for Bluebeard The child in the garden wears a coat collaged from the skins of paper, sutured with lengths of my hair. I am inside the house in a matching coat. There is no one to tell us not to; called here, as we were by the halloo of peacocks who turned tail the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}