{"id":7558,"date":"2014-10-30T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:26:31","slug":"rupert-loydell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rupert-loydell\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Loydell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Backlash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s a bit of a backlash these days,\u2019<br \/>\nhe said, \u2018people moving away from the screen<\/p>\n<p>and returning to paper &amp; pen.\u2019<br \/>\nEmergency procedures are in effect<\/p>\n<p>that are aimed as much below the belt<br \/>\nas above the collar.<\/p>\n<p>I work on my voice every day,<br \/>\nsometimes speaking or singing,<\/p>\n<p>other times showing fear or feelings<br \/>\nthrough a kind of nervous energy<\/p>\n<p>that results in me distracting myself<br \/>\nfrom intuitive communication.<\/p>\n<p>Walking in a fog of brass instruments<br \/>\nI stumble toward the lighthouse,<\/p>\n<p>blinking out the times and places we used to go,<br \/>\navoiding anything that might be taken for love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rupert Loydell<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, and the editor of<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stridemagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stride<\/a><\/em> and <em>With<\/em> magazines. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including <em>Wildlife\u00a0<\/em> and<em> Ballads of the Alone<\/em> both published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shearsman.com\/ws-shop\/category\/950-loydell-rupert-m\" target=\"_blank\">Shearsman Books.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backlash \u2018There\u2019s a bit of a backlash these days,\u2019 he said, \u2018people moving away from the screen and returning to paper &amp; pen.\u2019 Emergency procedures are in effect that are aimed as much below the belt as above the collar. I work on my voice every day, sometimes speaking or singing, other times showing fear [&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-7558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558","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=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7590,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}