{"id":575,"date":"2010-03-05T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:02:00","slug":"penelope-shuttle-welcomes-march-with-a-poem-that-starts-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/penelope-shuttle-welcomes-march-with-a-poem-that-starts-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Penelope Shuttle welcomes March with a poem that starts in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">FEBRUARY, ETC\u2026<br \/>\n<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" class=\"articleBody\">\n<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nIn a spate of windmills<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFebruary becomes March<\/p>\n<p>and March<br \/>\n<br \/>\n(for such is the power of time\u2019s silver thumb)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nbecomes April<\/p>\n<p>April waves her blue wand,<br \/>\n<br \/>\ndashing winter\u2019s hopes to the ground<\/p>\n<p>and May\u2019s desires carry the day,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nher many hands making light work of the rain<\/p>\n<p>June commends all her swains,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nsun and moon share her sky, <\/p>\n<p>though ignorant armies clash<br \/>\n<br \/>\nby night and day<\/p>\n<p>July grasps the nettle,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAugust says its late but not too late,<\/p>\n<p>September becomes October<br \/>\n<br \/>\nwithout a second thought,<\/p>\n<p>and October, as we well know,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nis made of deathbed linens<br \/>\n<br \/>\nand skies silky with blood\u2026<\/p>\n<p>November lies in wait,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nand December gives not a toss<\/p>\n<p>till January flits by<br \/>\n<br \/>\non a whetstone of ice,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nhead held high, daft with hope<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">* Penelope Shuttle&#39;s<\/span> last collection <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Redgrove\u2019s Wife<\/span> (Bloodaxe Books,<br \/>\n2006), was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize.<br \/>\nHer latest collection is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sandgrain and Hourglass<\/span> (Bloodaxe Books,<br \/>\n2010).<br \/>\n<\/font>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEBRUARY, ETC\u2026 In a spate of windmills February becomes March and March (for such is the power of time\u2019s silver thumb) becomes April April waves her blue wand, dashing winter\u2019s hopes to the ground and May\u2019s desires carry the day, her many hands making light work of the rain June commends all her swains, sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}