{"id":2584,"date":"2012-05-28T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2012-05-28T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:43:42","slug":"gill-mcevoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gill-mcevoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill McEvoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Way You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was the way you seemed to bounce<br \/>\nacross Front Square as if your body held<br \/>\nsome inner joy; the way you wouldn\u2019t dance<br \/>\nat parties but sat there, pipe in mouth,<br \/>\nconsidering the quainter follies<br \/>\nof the human race.<\/p>\n<p>The way, later, you referred to me always<br \/>\nas \u201c<em>my<\/em> wife\u201d, and not \u201c<em>the<\/em> wife\u201d<br \/>\nas some men do.<\/p>\n<p>It was all of these.<br \/>\nAnd I wanted it to last<br \/>\nforever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gill McEvoy<\/strong> has had\u00a0 two\u00a0 pamphlets published by Happenstance Press, both now out of print. Full collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1907090142\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\">The Plucking Shed <\/a>(Cinnamon Press, 2010). A second collection is due from Cinnamon in 2013. Gill has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2012. Find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/a-gender.org\/poets\/gill-mcevoy\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Way You It was the way you seemed to bounce across Front Square as if your body held some inner joy; the way you wouldn\u2019t dance at parties but sat there, pipe in mouth, considering the quainter follies of the human race. The way, later, you referred to me always as \u201cmy wife\u201d, and [&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-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","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=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}