{"id":3984,"date":"2012-11-07T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2013-10-29T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:54:42","slug":"silk-road-british-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3984-silk-road-british-poetry.html","title":{"rendered":"Silk Road British Poetry Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3992 alignright\" title=\"Silk Road Review\" src=\"\/files\/2012\/11\/silk-road-tent.gif\" alt=\"Silk Road Review\" width=\"160\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>I spent the past several months editing a special feature on British Poetry for the US literary journal <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silk Road Review<\/a>. The project came about as a natural extension of my private efforts to help expose more interested Americans to the remarkable scope and diversity of poetry I have encountered since relocating to London eighteen months ago. And what a scope it is!<\/p>\n<p>I focused on poets writing in English on the isle of Great Britain. Silk Road celebrates literature of place, and in Great Britain, place is invoked the moment one opens one&#8217;s mouth&#8211;from Patience Agbabi&#8217;s cold fusion of hip-hop and Chaucer, to Liz Berry&#8217;s private defense of her father&#8217;s Black Country accent, to Andrew Philip&#8217;s Scots-language-infused quatrains.<\/p>\n<p>The geographic range is wide in this collection&#8211;encompassing Scotland, Wales, and various distinct regions of northern and southern England&#8211;as the following map attests.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; min-height: 480px; max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.robertpeake.com\/silkroad-map.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><noframes><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.robertpeake.com\/silkroad-map.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/2012\/11\/silkroad-map.png\" alt=\"Click here for map\"><\/a><\/noframes><\/p>\n<p>These poets also vary considerably in age, occupation, and background. But above all it is the mix of poems I love&#8211;the heft and chewiness of language, the eccentric panoply of characters, the private moments keenly observed. The feature will appear in Silk Road 10, due out late spring\/early summer next year. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroad.pacificu.edu\/Subscribe.html\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe now<\/a> to ensure that you don&#8217;t miss a word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the past several months editing a special feature on British Poetry for the US literary journal Silk Road Review. The project came about as a natural extension of my private efforts to help expose more interested Americans to the remarkable scope and diversity of poetry I have encountered since relocating to London eighteen &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3984-silk-road-british-poetry.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silk Road British Poetry Feature<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1268,5],"tags":[653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}