{"id":6137,"date":"2014-01-02T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:17:33","slug":"on-the-ninth-day-of-christmas-helen-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/on-the-ninth-day-of-christmas-helen-kay\/","title":{"rendered":"On the ninth day of Christmas…Ira Lightman and Helen Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ira Lightman<\/a><\/strong> makes public art in the North East (the Spennymoor Letters, the Prudhoe Glade, the Gatesheads) and lately Willenhall and Southampton. He devises visual poetry forms and then asks local communities to supply words that will bring them alive. He is a regular on BBC Radio 3\u2032s The Verb.<\/em>\u00a0 Find out more here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Night Lisa Riley got knocked out of \u2018Strictly Come Dancing\u2019 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Mum is glued to the I player where Lisa\u2019s<\/p>\n

rumba\u00a0 sweeps\u00a0 the glassy\u00a0 floor.<\/p>\n

We fear the judges\u00a0 want to\u00a0 vote her out.<\/p>\n

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Ann\u00a0 hangs\u00a0 lights\u00a0 on the\u00a0 tree;\u00a0 tiny glass<\/p>\n

moments , then snowflakes and birds; each one<\/p>\n

unfolds\u00a0 our history in its own.<\/p>\n

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The TV shows\u00a0 photos of Sandy Hook<\/p>\n

School which will\u00a0 shape the way<\/p>\n

we hang\u00a0 this December. A peacock<\/p>\n

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butterfly\u00a0 falls open\u00a0 on our\u00a0 hearth,<\/p>\n

soft as a rainbow resting on sky<\/p>\n

forced to live through\u00a0 its own dying.<\/p>\n

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Mum finds\u00a0 a shoe box . On the I player tears<\/p>\n

shine on Lisa\u2019s face. This is the\u00a0 pure\u00a0 Christmas<\/p>\n

intensity,\u00a0 the pulse of Led lights.<\/p>\n

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The glow that we survived .<\/p>\n

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Helen Kay<\/strong> comes from Cheshire. She has been busy filling up her memory stick with verse including loads of poems about chickens. Following successes in minor poetry competitions, she has made a New Year’s resolution to seek publication.<\/p>\n

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                                              Ira Lightman makes public art in the North East (the Spennymoor Letters, the Prudhoe Glade, the Gatesheads) and lately Willenhall and Southampton. He devises visual poetry forms and then asks local communities […]<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","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=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23947,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions\/23947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}