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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 <\/p>\n Veil<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My mother found her mother\u2019s bridal veil<\/p>\n wrapped around a worthless china figurine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spiders had added their lace to it,<\/p>\n old newspapers left their stains.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A bee-hive heap of bandages,<\/p>\n only good now for Halloween.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For years there has been this wound<\/p>\n that has gone untreated and undressed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richie McCaffery<\/strong> was born in Newcastle in 1986. He is the recipient of a Carnegie scholarship as well as the recipient of an Arts Trust of Scotland \u2018Edwin Morgan travel bursary\u2019 and a Hawthornden fellowship. HappenStance Press published his first collection Spinning Plates<\/em>,<\/a> in 2012. His poems have also been anthologised in Todd Swift\u2019s Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam <\/em>and Salt\u2019s Best British Poetry 2012, <\/em>edited by Sasha Dugdale.\u00a0 Read and interview with Richie here<\/a>.<\/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 Veil […]<\/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-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","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=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5844,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}