{"id":9719,"date":"2015-12-10T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2015-11-26T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:33:43","slug":"cathy-whittaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/cathy-whittaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Whittaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things that Comfort Me Now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pink primroses<br \/>\nclustered<br \/>\nin a rockery garden<br \/>\nMagnolia thick<br \/>\nwith milky-white buds<br \/>\nready to burst<br \/>\nthe playground on the Rec<br \/>\nwhere my children told secrets<br \/>\nand couldn\u2019t wait<br \/>\nto grow up<br \/>\ntrack by Peter\u2019s house<br \/>\nsmell of brambles and soil<br \/>\nchocolate Labrador<br \/>\nbarking hello<br \/>\nworn path across the ridge<br \/>\nspread with healthy<br \/>\nemerald grass<br \/>\nmy coat tight as skin<br \/>\nbirds rattling songs out<br \/>\nan evening chorus<br \/>\nby the tennis courts<br \/>\nlight draining into dusk<br \/>\nscraps of other people\u2019s poems<br \/>\nfriends \u2013 their words<br \/>\nrain on my face<br \/>\nwind like the roar of the sea<br \/>\narriving home<br \/>\nopening a book<br \/>\ntaking each hour at a time;<br \/>\nnever looking ahead<br \/>\nor back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year <strong>Cathy Whittaker<\/strong> has published a sequence of poems in <em>Quintets<\/em> (Cinnamon Press) and had poems accepted by <em>Orbis, Envoi,<\/em> and <em>Poets on Loan<\/em>. She runs writing workshops with a colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmindwriting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.openmindwriting.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Things that Comfort Me Now Pink primroses clustered in a rockery garden Magnolia thick with milky-white buds ready to burst the playground on the Rec where my children told secrets and couldn\u2019t wait to grow up track by Peter\u2019s house smell of brambles and soil chocolate Labrador barking hello worn path across [&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-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719","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=9719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9719\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}