{"id":2356,"date":"2012-04-29T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2012-04-29T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:57:40","slug":"abigail-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/abigail-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Abigail Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dolls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fever brings me<br \/>\na pile of white dolls<br \/>\nin the evening light<br \/>\nwhich seeps, tired,<br \/>\nthrough woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>They have empty faces<br \/>\nand sundered limbs<br \/>\npoor delphic things<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t even know<br \/>\nwhere their home is,<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever expect<br \/>\nthem to be this perfect?<br \/>\nThat is, before I sweep<br \/>\nthem into a dustpan,<br \/>\nbefore I pour them<br \/>\nin to the red bin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abigail Price<\/strong> was born and brought up in West Wales and now lives in Devon. She recently gained an MA with Merit in Creative Writing at Keele University. She was shortlisted for the Roy Fisher Prize for Poetry 2011 and her work will appear in an anthology. She is Features Editor of a national magazine, and a keen pianist and singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolls Fever brings me a pile of white dolls in the evening light which seeps, tired, through woodwork. They have empty faces and sundered limbs poor delphic things and I don&#8217;t even know where their home is, Did you ever expect them to be this perfect? That is, before I sweep them into a dustpan, [&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-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","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=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}