{"id":3800,"date":"2013-01-01T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:16:18","slug":"the-eighth-day-of-christmas-john-regan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/the-eighth-day-of-christmas-john-regan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth Day of Christmas: John Regan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This evening\u2019s clouds capture<\/p>\n<p>The private imperative of prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The impossible confluence<\/p>\n<p>Of sky, water in air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is something in them of us-<\/p>\n<p>Our bending toward silent speech.<\/p>\n<p>Bearing at an event horizon,<\/p>\n<p>To each, an ever-escaping purchase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cordite, rain and oilseed rape.<\/p>\n<p>The shrill train, the rolling voice.<\/p>\n<p>The city is that way- this,<\/p>\n<p>The village. Past tense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh I would lie among<\/p>\n<p>The field\u2019s cool stalks<\/p>\n<p>And listen for you along<\/p>\n<p>The branch continuum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Regan\u00a0<\/strong> is a Glaswegian living in Cambridge, where he is a research fellow in aesthetics, historiography at Clare Hall. He believes that poetry should be spoken aloud.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Song &nbsp; This evening\u2019s clouds capture The private imperative of prayer. The impossible confluence Of sky, water in air. &nbsp; There is something in them of us- Our bending toward silent speech. Bearing at an event horizon, To each, an ever-escaping purchase. &nbsp; Cordite, rain and oilseed rape. The shrill train, the rolling [&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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","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=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23937,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/23937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}