{"id":2172,"date":"2011-11-07T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2011-11-07T18:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:07:46","slug":"paston-poetry-book-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"Paston poetry book published"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Missed the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival this year, but wrote a poem over the weekend:<\/p>\n

EXIT GRANDCHILDREN, STAGE LEFT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Empty dens in the garden,
\nbear on the stairs<\/p>\n

\u00a0The speed of darkness has been exceeded
\nand candles lie where they have fallen
\nunder the newly cut hedge<\/p>\n

The cars and bricks have been returned
\nto the garage, and the beds
\nremade, redirected, resolved<\/p>\n

The prince and princess have gone,
\nheading for hallowe\u2019en
\nand we are in winter already<\/p>\n

But we all remember
\nthat trick of the city night:
\nlights like puppets\u00a0dancing
\nstrange circles across the sky<\/p>\n

magic, like a roundabout,
\nreflecting, returning<\/p>\n

Caught glimpses of fireworks as I drove to North Walsham on Saturday to pick up some copies of Another Country<\/em>, the Paston poetry book that contains five of my poems and was designed by David. In a totally unbiased sort of way I can say that it looks very good. It will be launched next Monday at the Dragon Hall private view.<\/p>\n

North Walsham again on Sunday to see Jessie for tea and mince pies after a quickish visit to a packed Sainsburys to buy flowers for the cemetery. Not very nice weather: intermittent drizzle. Earlier I had preached at St Augustine’s and we had a bring-and-share lunch which turned out to be better than I had anticipated at the point when I realised that about 50 per cent of it was couscous. Actually the version of couscous that included meat was quite pleasant, and there were rolls and cheese, which can never be a bad thing.<\/p>\n

On Saturday morning I paid a brief visit to the church hall for the reinstatement of the window and discovered the Rainbows in situ<\/em>, which of course meant I had tracked down Cheryl, our elusive cleaner. She has promised to send me a list of people hiring the all, but I’m not holding my breath. I also noticed that our new sign contains a mis-spelling of the word “spiritual” (sprirtual, no less), which is pretty annoying, especially considering that the person who provided the PDF for the sign people is perfectly capable of spelling “spiritual”. As he is now in Palestine, I can’t hit him. Just as well, probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missed the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival this year, but wrote a poem over the weekend: EXIT GRANDCHILDREN, STAGE LEFT Empty dens in the garden, bear on the stairs \u00a0The speed of darkness has been exceeded and candles lie where they have fallen under the newly cut hedge The cars and bricks have been returned to the … Continue reading Paston poetry book published<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1640,1472,1146,1165],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-church-hall","tag-north-walsham","tag-paston","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}