{"id":2385,"date":"2022-07-01T19:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:17:52","slug":"grass-clouds-twenty-years-on-the-poetry-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"GRASS CLOUDS: Twenty Years on the Poetry Bench."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gassclouds.png?resize=612%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gassclouds.png?w=612&amp;ssl=1 612w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gassclouds.png?resize=184%2C300&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been collating a selection of poems written since coming to Nottingham in 2002. It hasn&#8217;t been a particularly inspiring location for my poetry and hardly anybody realises I actually published in 2010. I surprised to find 96 poems in 20 years which was my yearly output back in the 1990s. So once I thought of an appropriate title and found an image for the cover I will release a pdf of the &#8216;Nottingham Years&#8217; 2002-2022 in advance of my 20 years in waiting reading at Neil Fulwood&#8217;s fine poetry event at the Blue Monkey in August when he will be the main act.<br><br>Perhaps I should crowdsource a title..&#8217;Dark Tarn&#8217;..Guntown&#8230; Wordy Poet Hood? Forest and City :-)&#8230;..&#8217;Play on the Grass&#8217;&#8230;&#8230;maybe that it &#8230;<br><br>GRASS CLOUDS&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">job done son&#8230;now go have a shower..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoateallthepies.tv\/lists\/199038\/17-mud-splattered-photos-of-truly-appalling-football-pitches.html\">https:\/\/www.whoateallthepies.tv\/lists\/199038\/17-mud-splattered-photos-of-truly-appalling-football-pitches.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been collating a selection of poems written since coming to Nottingham in 2002. It hasn&#8217;t been a particularly inspiring location for my poetry and hardly anybody realises I actually published in 2010. I surprised to find 96 poems in 20 years which was my yearly output back in the 1990s. So once I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-Ct","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}