{"id":3305,"date":"2012-10-08T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2012-10-09T12:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T12:15:50","slug":"to-celebrate-national-poetry-day-we-bring-you-a-whole-weekful-of-poems-on-the-theme-of-stars-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/to-celebrate-national-poetry-day-we-bring-you-a-whole-weekful-of-poems-on-the-theme-of-stars-5\/","title":{"rendered":"To celebrate National Poetry Day, we bring you a whole weekful of poems on the theme of &#8216;Stars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrying\u201d.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s what the horoscope always says.<br \/>\nVirgo: persevering, determined, thorough.<br \/>\nLike a dreary school report<br \/>\nthe same from year to year,\u2028\u201cTries hard. Tries hard\u201d,<br \/>\nbut never \u201cCould try harder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like being trapped<br \/>\nbeneath an unsafe inn sign<br \/>\nthat swings and teeters on its chains<br \/>\nthreatening fall but hangs on,<br \/>\ndoing its best to resist<br \/>\nthe thud of adverse wind and weather.<\/p>\n<p>Darlings, it\u2019s not \u201ctrying\u201d,<br \/>\nit is trying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gill McEvoy<\/strong>&#8216;s first full collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1907090142\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Plucking Shed<\/em> <\/a>(Cinnamon Press 2010. Her second collection\u00a0 <em>Rise<\/em> is due from Cinnamon Press in May 2013. Gill is about to take up her Hawthornden award&#8230;so exciting!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When Earth Was Still a\u00a0 Single Silver Sphere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Italo Calvino saluto)<\/p>\n<p>The moon coming closer<br \/>\npulled the untorn sea a bit<br \/>\nuntil the shell of it<br \/>\ncracked<\/p>\n<p>and out burst the magma<br \/>\nand the rocks<\/p>\n<p>and instantly there was a most<br \/>\nextraordinary amount of coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Sclater<\/strong> is a garden historian, turned poet and drystane\u00a0 dyker.\u00a0 Shortlisted for the Picador Poetry Prize in 2010, his poetry\u00a0 has since won awards from New Writing North and the Scottish Book<br \/>\nTrust.\u00a0 He lives in Edinburgh and Northumberland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Virgo \u201cTrying\u201d. It\u2019s what the horoscope always says. Virgo: persevering, determined, thorough. Like a dreary school report the same from year to year,\u2028\u201cTries hard. Tries hard\u201d, but never \u201cCould try harder\u201d. It\u2019s like being trapped beneath an unsafe inn sign that swings and teeters on its chains threatening fall but hangs on, doing [&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-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","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=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}