{"id":8748,"date":"2015-06-23T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:02:10","slug":"and-the-pick-of-the-month-for-may-2015-is-rushaa-louise-hamid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/and-the-pick-of-the-month-for-may-2015-is-rushaa-louise-hamid\/","title":{"rendered":"And the ‘Pick of the Month’ for May 2015 is Rushaa Louise Hamid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huge congratulations to Rushaa Louise Hamid whose Another Canaan<\/em> emerged as the voters’ choice for the first IS&T Pick of the Month. Rushaa wins a National Book Tokens \u00a310 gift card and, as the first ‘Pick’, a place on a Lunar Poetry<\/em> workshop at L’klectik<\/em> gallery, cafe, performance and (soon to be) poetry bookshop space in Waterloo, London.<\/p>\n

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Another Canaan<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There was a wasteland
\nand cold tire tracks in the skin of the sand.
\nI forgot I couldn\u2019t breathe.<\/p>\n

In the distance was something
\nI could crawl to;
\nflat lands \u2013 these were like the lands of my childhood,
\na people that weren\u2019t built for inclines
\nbut to trundle on
\never looking past the haze of dust
\nand abandoning things that could not be carried.
\nIn the rush of feet and vehicles
\nwas a cry that all things must move forward,
\namongst the heat and pain,
\nwhere the dust had been beaten down into a solid block.<\/p>\n

My mother said
\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got fire in your bones and
\nnone in your blood,
\nand hot bones break,
\nand hot sand buries broken bones.\u201d
\nA crib lingers out in the heat
\nleftover from a broken moment
\nand I am leftover too<\/p>\n

\u00a0………………….<\/p>\n

Voters’ comments included:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just love the soft colours of her words….
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

How the first line encapsulates the feeling of the entire poem. It all feels desolate after…
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Stirs something within me<\/em><\/p>\n

so full of images<\/em><\/p>\n

It was evocative of the desert and brought back some personal memories.<\/em><\/p>\n

The second verse was touching and something I could relate to.<\/em><\/p>\n

she does an impression of a Dalek (in reference to Rushaa’s biography notes), and the poem is good<\/em><\/p>\n

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Huge congratulations to Rushaa Louise Hamid whose Another Canaan emerged as the voters’ choice for the first IS&T Pick of the Month. Rushaa wins a National Book Tokens \u00a310 gift card and, as the first ‘Pick’, a place on a Lunar Poetry workshop at L’klectik gallery, cafe, performance and (soon to be) poetry bookshop space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}