{"id":2744,"date":"2023-10-06T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:03:55","slug":"new-projects-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2744","title":{"rendered":"THAMES VALLEY TEXAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"905\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=640%2C905&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=2121%2C3000&amp;ssl=1 2121w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=1086%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1086w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=1448%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?resize=676%2C956&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/TEXASPNG.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just read some of this volume at the Open Book reading is Thames Valley Texas (updates at link above or direct here <a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?cat=106\">https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?cat=106<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a kind of auto-biography of myself and my hometown of Didcot where I lived for a good part of 30 years. The title is a reference to the love of country music that my family had instilled in me from a young age and the experience of hearing Dolly Parton at full volume drifting across the estate from the working-men&#8217;s club on a saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I cannot get a publisher to take this chapbook length collection on I will try and publish as a Horsehoe Press pamphlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potentially in future I would like to publish the poems alongside a sequence of photographs I took in 2011-12 for a multimedia project called TRACK which almost but not quite became a PHD in 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/phototexas.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/phototexas.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/phototexas.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/phototexas.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/phototexas.jpg?resize=676%2C676&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/plant.jpg?resize=526%2C526&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/plant.jpg?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/plant.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/plant.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TVT1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of TVT1.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-944da955-2bef-4d11-8389-408f87853449\" href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TVT1.pdf\">TVT1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TVT1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-944da955-2bef-4d11-8389-408f87853449\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read some of this volume at the Open Book reading is Thames Valley Texas (updates at link above or direct here https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?cat=106) This is a kind of auto-biography of myself and my hometown of Didcot where I lived for a good part of 30 years. 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