{"id":9881,"date":"2015-12-31T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:20:24","slug":"on-the-ninth-day-of-christmas-we-bring-you-sarah-james-and-laura-mckee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/on-the-ninth-day-of-christmas-we-bring-you-sarah-james-and-laura-mckee\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Ninth Day of Christmas, we bring you Sarah James and Laura McKee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unspilled<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Midnight strikes London\u2019s moon face,<br \/>\nthe new year cheered in with a sip<br \/>\nof sparkling wine, and time\u2019s old friends.<\/p>\n<p>Forty years of Auld Lang Syne in our bones,<br \/>\nwe dance and laugh as our great-grandparents<br \/>\ndanced and laughed, as our children<\/p>\n<p>will come to jig and giggle.<br \/>\nTheir youth now pours our fizz then<br \/>\nthrough faster-flowing veins: ghosts<\/p>\n<p>in every bubble, every bubble<br \/>\na gasp sharp with life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah James<\/strong> is a prize-winning poet, fiction writer and journalist. Her latest collections are\u00a0<em>plenty-fish\u00a0<\/em>(Nine Arches Press, 2015) and T<em>he Magnetic Diaries\u00a0<\/em>(KFS, 2015), highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarah-james.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sarah-james.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0and she runs V. Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>shall I call this waiting for snow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>snowflakes formed in clouds<br \/>\nusually take about half an hour<br \/>\nto reach the ground<\/p>\n<p>be ready for them<br \/>\nwear diamond tread soles<br \/>\nspread bicycles out on patios<\/p>\n<p>let them take on another interesting shape<br \/>\nbefore they melt<\/p>\n<p>if only to soften their fall<br \/>\nknow they are coming<br \/>\noffer your tongue<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura McKee<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t put the sprouts on yet. In other news this year, she was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and nominated for Best Single Poem in the Forward Prizes. She also had a poem chosen to be on a bus for the Guernsey Literary Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Unspilled Midnight strikes London\u2019s moon face, the new year cheered in with a sip of sparkling wine, and time\u2019s old friends. Forty years of Auld Lang Syne in our bones, we dance and laugh as our great-grandparents danced and laughed, as our children will come to jig and giggle. Their youth now pours [&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":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","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=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23845,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/23845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}