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Banbury, Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke, Winchester<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the gap before territory,<\/p>\n where, frying onion, you catch<\/p>\n reflections in the steel curve<\/p>\n of the kettle<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and I sleep to the sounds<\/p>\n of early evening, drinking<\/p>\n mulled wine from<\/p>\n a thermos flask.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your Southampton,<\/p>\n more seaside than city, seems<\/p>\n ever-raining – nocturnal – wound<\/p>\n with strangers<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and my Leamington stirs<\/p>\n to the steaming of tarmac<\/p>\n and the grumbling of<\/p>\n old bus engines<\/p>\n struggling in the cold.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Josh Suntharasivam<\/strong> is currently completing a degree in English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t believe in bios.\u00a0 Then again, he didn\u2019t believe in poetry until a year ago.<\/p>\n Banbury, Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke, Winchester This is the gap before territory, where, frying onion, you catch reflections in the steel curve of the kettle and I sleep to the sounds of early evening, drinking mulled wine from a thermos flask. Your Southampton, more seaside than city, seems ever-raining – nocturnal […]<\/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-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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