{"id":18255,"date":"2019-01-21T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=18255"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:37:29","slug":"witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/01\/witch\/","title":{"rendered":"WITCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Tam\u00e1s reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the devil, witch trials and the suffragettes, gender and sexuality. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, <em>WITCH<\/em> evokes the intimate, sensual power of nature and merges it with the revolutionary potential of women\u2019s voices. These are poems as spells \u2014 spells against suppression, silence and obedience; hexes that cling to your body like sweat, full of a messy, violent joy, \u2018a small, bright, filthy song\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Feminist, ecological and occult, <em>WITCH<\/em> grabs history and shakes it, demanding: \u2018Wake me up when it really gets started\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/320061230?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>WITCH<\/i> is a strange, visceral and darkly witty debut by a startling new voice in British poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,4,29,289],"tags":[149,99,97,115,291,93,107,109,113,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255"}],"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=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18445,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions\/18445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}