{"id":11378,"date":"2016-02-17T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=11378"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:29:28","slug":"launch-cain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/launch-cain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/img\/5\/8\/7\/1\/4\/3\/i\/2\/8\/5\/p-large\/Luke_Kennard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Tricksy, acerbic and laugh-out-loud funny, <em>Cain<\/em> is the dazzling new collection from Next Generation Poet Luke Kennard.<\/h2>\n<p>In a series of animated conversations, Cain &#8211; the first murderer &#8211; provides therapy sessions for the author, covering everything from interfaith dialogue and genealogy to zombies. <em>Cain<\/em>&#8216;s central sequence of 31 anagram poems re-energises Genesis 4:9-12, demonstrating the mastery of form and trademark surreal humour that has made Kennard one of British poetry&#8217;s brightest lights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Endlessly inventive, bruisingly direct, and rich with a desperate, defensive humour. A stunning achievement.<\/p>\n<p>JOE DUNTHORNE<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricksy, acerbic and laugh-out-loud funny, Cain is the dazzling new collection from Next Generation Poet Luke Kennard. In a series of animated conversations, Cain &#8211; the first murderer &#8211; provides therapy sessions for the author, covering everything from interfaith dialogue and genealogy to zombies. Cain&#8216;s central sequence of 31 anagram poems re-energises Genesis 4:9-12, demonstrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11888,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11378\/revisions\/11888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}