{"id":9959,"date":"2016-01-21T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:14:31","slug":"dennis-tomlinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dennis-tomlinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Diemen\u2019s Land<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shorn sheep swim<br \/>\nin tawny grass.<br \/>\nScorched trees flame green.<\/p>\n<p>A hard road<br \/>\nthrough the rocks<br \/>\nto Port Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Windows barred<br \/>\nand roof open<br \/>\nthe Penitentiary<\/p>\n<p>rears up,<br \/>\na broken mill<br \/>\nbehind hoardings.<\/p>\n<p>A ferry<br \/>\nshows tourists<br \/>\nthe Isle of the Dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Tomlinson<\/strong> lives in London and writes poetry. He has had poems published in <em>Lunar Poetry<\/em>, the<em> Poetry ID<\/em> anthologies and various small magazines, translations in <em>Modern Poetry in Translation <\/em>and<em> The Wolf.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Van Diemen\u2019s Land Shorn sheep swim in tawny grass. Scorched trees flame green. A hard road through the rocks to Port Arthur. Windows barred and roof open the Penitentiary rears up, a broken mill behind hoardings. A ferry shows tourists the Isle of the Dead. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dennis Tomlinson lives [&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-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","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=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}