{"id":684,"date":"2010-05-20T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=684"},"modified":"2010-05-20T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:49:00","slug":"penelope-shuttle-talks-of-lights-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/penelope-shuttle-talks-of-lights-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Penelope Shuttle talks of light&#39;s journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Light likes to travel at his own speed,<br \/>making up stories about kingdoms and good deeds,<br \/>unfolding&nbsp; &#8211; eh voila! &#8211;<br \/>a tiny vulnerable brand-new street caf\u00e9 &#8211;<br \/>then resting for a while on any sesame portal,<br \/>or in the vicinity of a closing-down sale,<br \/>turning his makeshift face here and there.<br \/>How swift and gentle is Light\u2019s hand<br \/>inscribing his ten commandments on the air,<br \/>how fearless his countenance at dawn,<br \/>like an Inuit confronting a wasp for the first time,<br \/>how bravely he runs the gauntlet between my heart and yours,<br \/>racing towards the moon with an eclipse tucked under his arm.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>* Penelope Shuttle&#39;s<\/span><br \/>\n last collection <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Redgrove\u2019s Wife<\/span><br \/>\n (Bloodaxe Books,<br \/>\n2006), was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize.<br \/>\nHer latest collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248823\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sandgrain and<br \/>\n Hourglass<\/span><\/a> (Bloodaxe Books,<br \/>\n2010).<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light Light likes to travel at his own speed,making up stories about kingdoms and good deeds,unfolding&nbsp; &#8211; eh voila! &#8211;a tiny vulnerable brand-new street caf\u00e9 &#8211;then resting for a while on any sesame portal,or in the vicinity of a closing-down sale,turning his makeshift face here and there.How swift and gentle is Light\u2019s handinscribing his ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}