{"id":7778,"date":"2014-12-03T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2014-12-05T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T10:52:23","slug":"kate-venables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kate-venables\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Venables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reconstruction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Henry Tonks was a surgeon and artist who worked with Harold Gillies the pioneer facial surgeon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wound\u2019s not the thing, it\u2019s the trust \u2013<br \/>\nyoung faces with clear eyes looking straight<br \/>\nat you above slipped jaws, open mouths,<br \/>\nloose tongue, swollen lips.\u00a0 Survivors, hopeful \u2013<br \/>\nyou can almost feel the soft curls<br \/>\nof beard on cheeks and neck \u2013<br \/>\n<em>back in Blighty for a good long stay<\/em><br \/>\n<em> out of it for good and this man Gillies<\/em><br \/>\n<em> is good they say.\u00a0 I\u2019ll wait a bit then get<\/em><br \/>\n<em> the nurse to write my girl.<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left:140px;\">It\u2019s the \u2018after\u2019 faces<\/span><br \/>\nabove their jackets and ties<br \/>\nthat are wary, guarded, scapegoated,<br \/>\nlonely.\u00a0 Not seen, not recognised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Venables<\/strong> is a doctor.\u00a0 She is also enrolled in the University of Oxford creative writing programme.\u00a0 Other work has appeared in <em>Lighthouse, Flash, The Lake, Miso<\/em>, and the 2014 Hippocrates anthology.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The Royal College of Surgeons holds a collection of his pastels of the faces of men wounded in the First World War, before and after reconstructive surgery.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilliesarchives.org.uk\/Tonks%20pastels\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.gilliesarchives.org.uk\/Tonks%20pastels\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconstruction Henry Tonks was a surgeon and artist who worked with Harold Gillies the pioneer facial surgeon. The wound\u2019s not the thing, it\u2019s the trust \u2013 young faces with clear eyes looking straight at you above slipped jaws, open mouths, loose tongue, swollen lips.\u00a0 Survivors, hopeful \u2013 you can almost feel the soft curls of [&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-7778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778","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=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7862,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions\/7862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}