{"id":576,"date":"2010-03-06T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=576"},"modified":"2010-03-06T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:22:02","slug":"angus-sinclair-watches-a-city-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/angus-sinclair-watches-a-city-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus Sinclair watches a city in decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Taxidermy<\/span>

Here is a city <\/span>
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where buildings cramp,
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wattle and daub splits at the seam.<\/span>
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Tram cables, phone lines cat\u2019s-cradle tenements.
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Here is a monument; a mosaic scene. Tiles <\/span>
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fall out like milk
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teeth
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fail to grow back.
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Punch-drunk wasps around a pregnant cat <\/span>
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by a stagnant pool,
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the smell of pencil shavings and urine.
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Here, a moth-bitten framework; a man<\/span>
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picks at a plate
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of small, lead-coloured fish.
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* Angus Sinclair<\/span> is a graduate of Norwich University College of the Arts.
He is a poet, photo-artist and professional wrestler.
His work in these mediums is concerned with minimal narrative structures.
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TaxidermyHere is a city where buildings cramp, wattle and daub splits at the seam. Tram cables, phone lines cat\u2019s-cradle tenements. Here is a monument; a mosaic scene. Tiles fall out like milk teeth fail to grow back. Punch-drunk wasps around a pregnant cat by a stagnant pool, the smell of pencil shavings and urine. Here, […]<\/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-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}