{"id":4737,"date":"2013-08-13T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T10:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2013-08-13T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T10:16:28","slug":"the-silence-teacher-reviewed-in-magma-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4737-the-silence-teacher-reviewed-in-magma-poetry.html","title":{"rendered":"The Silence Teacher Reviewed in Magma Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magmapoetry.com\/blog-review-24-geoff-sawers-reviews-six-pamphlets-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/08\/magma.jpeg\" alt=\"Magma\" class=\" wp-image-4738 alignright\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; border: 0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/08\/magma.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/08\/magma-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/08\/magma-125x125.jpeg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>Geoff Sawers reviews my newest short collection <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/the-silence-teacher\">The Silence Teacher<\/a><\/em> in Magma Poetry.<\/p>\n<p>He notes its &#8220;consistently even, deeply muted tones&#8221; that betray &#8220;very little of either self-pity or self-absorption&#8221; and declares it an &#8220;uneasy, affecting and unforgettable collection&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Magma has become one of my favourite UK literary journals, in part for its tremendous variety; its poetry editors rotate with every issue. I am delighted by the mention, and pleased to be reviewed alongside the up-and-comer Rachel Piercey and well-known poet Martin Figura.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magmapoetry.com\/blog-review-24-geoff-sawers-reviews-six-pamphlets-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full review here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Sawers reviews my newest short collection The Silence Teacher in Magma Poetry. He notes its &#8220;consistently even, deeply muted tones&#8221; that betray &#8220;very little of either self-pity or self-absorption&#8221; and declares it an &#8220;uneasy, affecting and unforgettable collection&#8221;. Magma has become one of my favourite UK literary journals, in part for its tremendous variety; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4737-the-silence-teacher-reviewed-in-magma-poetry.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Silence Teacher Reviewed in Magma Poetry<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"closed","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":[18,1268,5],"tags":[442,828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737"}],"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=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}