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I’m bed ladle not fork I would like to meet a man\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for swimming, gluten intolerance\u00a0\u00a0 would be a plus<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sue Birchenough<\/strong> has been writing poems for about 4 years. She lives in Buxton, and regularly gets to poetry workshops, events, and readings in Manchester – occasionally in London, too. She has poems in the English PEN Catechism<\/em> anthology, the Peter Barlow’s Cigarette No Spy Zone<\/em> anthology, and the forthcoming Like This Press Austin, Bronte, and Shakespeare<\/em> anthology. In 2012 and 2013 she was shortlisted in the Erbacce poetry prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m bed I’m bed not wardrobe with my back against the wall ladle not fork breast stroke not crawl lintel not brick flagpole not vault sweetcorn not wheat I would like to meet a man\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for swimming, visits to ikea, soup, who prefers public buildings to a pub (lol) and is looking […]<\/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-7659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659","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=7659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7661,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7659\/revisions\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI’m bed<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nnot wardrobe with my back against the wall<\/p>\n
\nbreast stroke not crawl
\nlintel not brick
\nflagpole not vault
\nsweetcorn not wheat<\/p>\n
\nvisits to ikea,
\nsoup,
\nwho
\nprefers public buildings to a pub (lol)
\nand is looking to buy a cottage\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in a year or two<\/p>\n