{"id":6435,"date":"2014-03-04T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2014-02-27T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:33:32","slug":"christy-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/christy-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Christy Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Drove out to Anywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spitting mandolins of duck breast, sizzling,<br \/>\nstart to suggest things;<\/p>\n<p>the coming together of ramblers,<br \/>\nwe masqueraded as them, on a May morning,<br \/>\nbeer-gardened and pecking<br \/>\nat KP or WALKERS.<\/p>\n<p>A slurp or two of shandy,<br \/>\nflat and warmed over conversation about<br \/>\nworld-travel or mutual friends.<br \/>\nWe could talk the fizz out of coke.<\/p>\n<p>The gloopy remains are onions, peppers,<br \/>\norange jus \u2013<br \/>\nforked into a corner of the slate.<\/p>\n<p>And then on, on to a bull-field,<br \/>\nempty and dog-legged under<br \/>\na road-bridge.<\/p>\n<p>We blanketed ourselves on tartan,<br \/>\nswapped sunglasses,<br \/>\nlaid back and listened to crows<br \/>\nand gulls and far away<br \/>\ndogs bark<br \/>\nand are walked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christy Hall<\/strong> is a Northern poet, originally from Yorkshire but currently residing in the South East. This year he published his first chapbook through Fire Hazard Press in Hull, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/firehazardpress.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/shop_5.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Later, You Returned to the Sea.<\/em> <\/a>With the help of his kind publisher, he sold 50 copies of that stable-bound, paperback chap.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He is currently penning what will be his first full length collection; since April he has had poems accepted in ten e-zines and literary journals here at home and across the Atlantic.\u00a0\u00a0 Christy graduated with a Master\u2019s Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Hull in 2010,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We Drove out to Anywhere Spitting mandolins of duck breast, sizzling, start to suggest things; the coming together of ramblers, we masqueraded as them, on a May morning, beer-gardened and pecking at KP or WALKERS. A slurp or two of shandy, flat and warmed over conversation about world-travel or mutual friends. We [&hellip;]<\/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-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","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=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}