{"id":4077,"date":"2012-12-31T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2013-12-23T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:52:23","slug":"2012-roundup-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4077-2012-roundup-year-in-review.html","title":{"rendered":"2012 Roundup Year-in-Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mayan<\/a>Once again, I take a look over the past year and select one post from each month that seems significant.<\/p>\n

January: Numerology of Grief (The Sixth Year)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This brief meditation on six years since the death of our son found its way to a friend-of-a-friend who also lost his son in infancy. To hear how much it meant to him made all the long silences between writing seem bearable.<\/p>\n

February: Long-Listed, National Poetry Competition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So close. Still, having my poem be one of the 130 long-listed poems out of over 11,000 entries was a nice little boost.<\/p>\n

March: Magma Poetry Launch Reading at The Troubadour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I was delighted to have a poem appear in Magma, and fell in love with the history and rich atmosphere of The Troubadour that night.<\/p>\n

April: First Year in London: Lessons in Negative Capability<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reflecting on lessons learned after one year living in England, I found the advice of John Keats as pertinent to poetry as it was a balm for culture shock.<\/p>\n

May: Jonah (Film-Poem by Alastair Cook)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lens-based artist Alastair Cook did a remarkable job incorporating a poem I wrote in memory of our neighbour-friends\u2019 son into a film-poem in his characteristic visual style.<\/p>\n

June: At Home in the English Countryside<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Settling in to a different pace of life.<\/p>\n

July: In Praise of Small Spaces<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Learning to take pleasure in the little cultivations of a simple life.<\/p>\n

August: Sabotaged! (A Review)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Martha Sprackland made some deeply insightful observations, the likes of which could only have come from reading closely and thinking carefully about my debut collection Human Shade<\/p>\n

September: Ira Lightman: Experiments in Poetry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I came to embrace the high-risk, high-reward art form of experimental poetry.<\/p>\n

November: Silk Road British Poetry Feature<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

After months of poem-wrangling and poem-wrestling, I completed my special feature on British poetry for Silk Road Review, due out in print next summer.<\/p>\n

December: The Power and Peril of Written Words<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Raw from the Newtown shootings, I typed out some thoughts on America’s reverence for the Second Amendment. It was re-syndicated by Huffington Post and ended up making the front page. Thousands of reads and hundreds of comments later, I only hope we might come a little closer to preventing such tragedies in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I take a look over the past year and select one post from each month that seems significant. January: Numerology of Grief (The Sixth Year) This brief meditation on six years since the death of our son found its way to a friend-of-a-friend who also lost his son in infancy. To hear how …<\/p>\n

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