{"id":5497,"date":"2013-10-14T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T10:25:51","slug":"afrodita-nikolova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/afrodita-nikolova\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrodita Nikolova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Un-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below the hospital bed<br \/>\nthere was a hot circle of blood.<\/p>\n<p>A forehead on her forehead<br \/>\na palm on her palm<\/p>\n<p>the Polish song on the radio next to<br \/>\nforgotten babushkas in the room down the hall<\/p>\n<p>with the door notice\u00a0 &#8220;Visitors after five&#8221;<br \/>\nor staring at the cyrillic letters on<\/p>\n<p>the chocolate boxes the magnolia pots<br \/>\non the terraces the wet laundry<\/p>\n<p>spread on the strings and sparkling<br \/>\nantennas on high roof tops<\/p>\n<p>could hardly transmit the warmth<br \/>\nshe used to feel in her womb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Afrodita Nikolova<\/strong>, 24, is a Macedonian award-winning writer for the poetry book &#8220;Omaynina&#8221; (2010) and edits the literary booklet &#8220;Sh&#8221;. Her poetry&#8217;s included in <em>The Anthology of Young Macedonian Avant-garde Poetr<\/em>y (2012) and <em>The Cambridge Student; &#8220;Notes&#8221;<\/em>, the Oxbridge magazine;<em> Ancient Heart<\/em>, 2012\/2013.<br \/>\nblog:<a href=\" http:\/\/afroditanikolova.blogspot.co.uk\/  \" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/afroditanikolova.blogspot.co.uk\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Un- Below the hospital bed there was a hot circle of blood. A forehead on her forehead a palm on her palm the Polish song on the radio next to forgotten babushkas in the room down the hall with the door notice\u00a0 &#8220;Visitors after five&#8221; or staring at the cyrillic letters on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","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=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}