{"id":19585,"date":"2020-08-17T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=19585"},"modified":"2020-08-17T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:59:14","slug":"inua-ellams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/08\/inua-ellams\/","title":{"rendered":"Inua Ellams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a UK-based poet, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the BBC. His latest play was an adaptation of Chekhov\u2019s <i>Three Sisters<\/i> set in Nigeria, staged at the National Theatre. <i>The Actual<\/i> is Ellams\u2019 fifth poetry release, and first full collection, after <i>Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales<\/i> (flipped eye, 2005), <i>Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars<\/i> (flipped eye, 2011), <i>The Wire-Headed Heathen<\/i> (Akashic Books, 2016) and <i>The Half God of Rainfall<\/i> (Fourth Estate, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a UK-based poet, playwright and performer who has written for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and the BBC. His latest play was an adaptation of Chekhov\u2019s Three Sisters set in Nigeria, staged at the National Theatre. The Actual is Ellams\u2019 fifth poetry release, and first full collection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,305],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585"}],"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=19585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19587,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions\/19587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}