{"id":3497,"date":"2012-11-01T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2012-11-01T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:12:59","slug":"sam-willetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sam-willetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry as a Lifeline: Sam Willetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat &amp; Tears will be featuring poems on the theme \u2018Poetry as a Lifeline\u2019 which is the subject of the IS&amp;T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year.\u00a0 Today\u2019s poem is from Sam Willetts who is appearing at the Festival.\u00a0 Find out more about the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepoetrytrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look to your life.<br \/>\nRest your kindness<br \/>\nand your unkindness<br \/>\nnow, and listen: I know<br \/>\nwhat makes your heart<br \/>\nclench coldly<br \/>\nin all weathers,<br \/>\nI know how it feels<br \/>\nthat it always will.<br \/>\nBear that. Look to your life,<br \/>\nto your one given garden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Willetts<\/strong>&#8216; first collection <em>New Light for the Old Dar<\/em>k (2010) was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the TS Eliot Prize.\u00a0 &#8216;Garden&#8217; appears in <em>New Light for the Old Dar<\/em>k\u00a0 which can be ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/0224089180\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat &amp; Tears will be featuring poems on the theme \u2018Poetry as a Lifeline\u2019 which is the subject of the IS&amp;T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year.\u00a0 Today\u2019s poem is from Sam Willetts who is appearing at the Festival.\u00a0 [&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":[32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-as-a-lifeline","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","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=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}