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The 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 8th-10th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of \u2018Beauty\u2019 which is the subject of the IS&T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Find out more about the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wild Fennel<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh my sweet girl,<\/p>\n body outgrowing girl-thoughts<\/p>\n that bloom and burst\u2026<\/p>\n At five, your loneliness was hard to bear<\/p>\n but now you seek its comfort –<\/p>\n behind the closed door, your thoughts<\/p>\n drift through the room, mauve smoke<\/p>\n tendrilling through the gap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once you covered yourself in leaves,<\/p>\n your face showing.\u00a0 Now you swim through cold<\/p>\n mountain rivers, brown reed in the water,<\/p>\n your quietness everywhere<\/p>\n like the scent of wild fennel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shazea Quraishi<\/strong> is a Pakistani-born writer, editor, translator and creative writing tutor whose poems have been published in journals and anthologies in the UK and US.\u00a0 She is currently writing a play based on her recent chapbook, The Courtesans Reply<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This is her website<\/a>, and you can hear her reading her work here.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 8th-10th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of \u2018Beauty\u2019 which is the subject of the IS&T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Find out more about the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival here Wild Fennel Oh […]<\/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-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","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=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}