{"id":2658,"date":"2012-06-09T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T11:29:01","slug":"andrew-f-giles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/andrew-f-giles\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew F Giles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wyoming<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>his man\u2019s good and dead<\/p>\n<p>news came in a missive that he read<br \/>\nuntil the sap left him<\/p>\n<p>the paper cut bled<br \/>\nfor hours<\/p>\n<p>he held the letter to his mouth, bear-<br \/>\nhugged tight air inside his chest<br \/>\nand held it like a fist<\/p>\n<p>the last kiss<br \/>\nfelt kinda strange, blood-rusty, hell<br \/>\nhe held that letter to his mouth<br \/>\nfor hours<br \/>\nI swear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew F Giles<\/strong> has work in <em>Ambit, Magma, Equinox, JERRY, Poetry Scotland, Gutter, The Recusant&#8217;s &#8216;Robin Hood Book&#8217;<\/em> &amp; various others. He has written articles on Scottish poetry for <em>The Spectator<\/em>, &amp; edits Scotland&#8217;s online literary arts &amp; culture journal <em>New Linear Perspectives<\/em>. \u00a0He is included in the Scottish Poetry Library&#8217;s <em>Best Scottish Poetry anthology<\/em> 2011, edited by Roddy Lumsden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wyoming his man\u2019s good and dead news came in a missive that he read until the sap left him the paper cut bled for hours he held the letter to his mouth, bear- hugged tight air inside his chest and held it like a fist the last kiss felt kinda strange, blood-rusty, hell he held [&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-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","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=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}