{"id":6476,"date":"2014-03-14T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2014-03-14T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:15:01","slug":"kevin-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kevin-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Untitled1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6477\" title=\"Untitled1\" src=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Untitled1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Untitled1.png 302w, https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Untitled1-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Photo By Peadar O\u2019Donoghue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Birthday Treat and a Last Bastion of Love<\/strong><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I do believe you shouldn\u2019t throw stones.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t see the point in killing birds.<\/p>\n<p>If anything I\u2019ve tried to save them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the <em>City Gallery <\/em>our eyes lit up.<\/p>\n<p>It was our last chance to see<\/p>\n<p>a Francis Bacon exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At <em>The Brazen Head <\/em>we listened to<\/p>\n<p>a <em>Guinnessed <\/em>man tell tall tales of<\/p>\n<p><em>The Easter Rising.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We took-off at sunset. It was dark when we landed.<\/p>\n<p>With few words spoken &#8211; I realised<\/p>\n<p>the bird I had killed was out of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Reid<\/strong> lives in Scotland. His poetry can be found in various online and printed zines. He is the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/morethanerasure.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;erasure<\/a>\u00a0 , a recent collaboration with George Szirtes, Jo Bell, Dave Kirkwood and Bobby Parker. His blog can be viewed<a href=\"http:\/\/eyeosphere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> here\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo By Peadar O\u2019Donoghue &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Birthday Treat and a Last Bastion of Love &nbsp; I do believe you shouldn\u2019t throw stones. And I don\u2019t see the point in killing birds. If anything I\u2019ve tried to save them. &nbsp; At the City Gallery our eyes lit up. It was our last [&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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","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=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}