{"id":2584,"date":"2015-02-15T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:14:43","slug":"poetry-reading-21st-february-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Reading &#8212; 21st February 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Next Saturday I&#8217;ll be reading some poetry from the First World War (therefore not my own!) at the <a title=\"Bucks County Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buckscc.gov.uk\/bcc\/museum\/county_museum.page\" target=\"_blank\">Buckinghamshire County Museum <\/a>in Aylesbury along with some of my fellow members of Metroland Poets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">I&#8217;m due to be reading at 1,30pm and 2.30pm (there&#8217;s another, later, reading at 3.30pm).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">The poems I&#8217;m due to read are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #141823;\">Recruiting by E A Mackintosh;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #141823;\">An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W. B. Yeats;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #141823;\">and The General and Base Details, both by Siegfried Sassoon.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #141823;\">\n<p>It&#8217;s all free and it marks with the end of an exhibition about the First World War, which tells the story of the war viewed from a local perspective and by local figures, including the war artist, John Nash (whose First World War painting,\u00a0<em>The Cornfield,\u00a0<\/em>I have on my wall and a figure whom Kim reveres in my novel).<\/p>\n<p>Please come along and listen to us if you&#8217;re in the area. More details about Metroland Poets can be found on the Poetry Society website at:\u00a0<a title=\"Metroland Poets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org.uk\/content\/membership\/stanzas\/bucks\/#Amersham\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org.uk\/content\/membership\/stanzas\/bucks\/#Amersham<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Saturday I&#8217;ll be reading some poetry from the First World War (therefore not my own!) at the Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury along with some of my fellow members of Metroland Poets. I&#8217;m due to be reading at 1,30pm and 2.30pm (there&#8217;s another, later, reading at 3.30pm). The poems I&#8217;m due to read are: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry Reading &#8212; 21st February 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[453,79,1263,958],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-john-nash","tag-metroland-poets","tag-poetry","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}