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Curlew Calls<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I walked the moors<\/p>\n Of the South Tyne Valley<\/p>\n Not knowing anyone<\/p>\n Within 150 miles<\/p>\n I hugged the very call<\/p>\n Of the curlew.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I watched them lift together<\/p>\n From fields by the banks<\/p>\n Of the river.<\/p>\n Once I peered over a drystone wall<\/p>\n And saw one right there<\/p>\n Before me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Flying on my bike<\/p>\n Over bumping tarmac<\/p>\n Down the hill into Beltingham<\/p>\n They were burbling there, in the air.<\/p>\n The first time I heard them<\/p>\n Was on Coombs moss<\/p>\n In Derbyshire.<\/p>\n I wasn\u2019t so alone then<\/p>\n And hindsight makes those calls<\/p>\n Sound like a portent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Neil Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0has two collections of short stories,\u00a0Broken Doll,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Pictures from Hopper<\/em>, published by Salt, and two poetry chapbooks,\u00a0Birds<\/em>, and\u00a0Bugsworth Diary,<\/em>\u00a0published by Knives, Forks and Spoons. Recent stories in\u00a0Short Fictio<\/em>n and\u00a0Tears in the Fence<\/em>. Other stories in the anthologies,\u00a0Murmurations,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Best British Short Stories 2012.<\/em>\u00a0Has a chapbook of short fiction,\u00a0Ekphrasis,<\/em>\u00a0with Knives, Forks and Spoons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curlew Calls When I walked the moors Of the South Tyne Valley Not knowing anyone Within 150 miles I hugged the very call Of the curlew. I watched them lift together From fields by the banks Of the river. Once I peered over a drystone wall And saw one right there Before […]<\/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-9213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213","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=9213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9213\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}