{"id":583,"date":"2010-03-12T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=583"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:59:50","slug":"andrew-motion-talks-of-journeying-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/andrew-motion-talks-of-journeying-and-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Motion talks of journeying and love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold;\">ENGLISH SUITES<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">When you wear those headphones I cannot hear<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">what music you are playing, just the sandal-patter<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">of silent keys making their mockery of silence.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I lie on our king-sized bed behind you and listen,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">watching your head bow sometimes in what looks<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">like bitter impatience, at others serious agreement.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">In your third country now, you are still travelling<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">and I am perfectly content to ride your slipstream<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">although you insist I am what you came to find.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Andrew Motion<\/span><\/font> <font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\">was UK poet Laureate from 1999-2009.&nbsp; His most recent collection <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Cinder Path<\/span> (Faber) has been shortlisted<br \/>\n              for The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLISH SUITESWhen you wear those headphones I cannot hearwhat music you are playing, just the sandal-patterof silent keys making their mockery of silence.I lie on our king-sized bed behind you and listen,watching your head bow sometimes in what lookslike bitter impatience, at others serious agreement.In your third country now, you are still travellingand I am [&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-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}