{"id":20387,"date":"2021-10-13T13:47:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T13:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=20387"},"modified":"2022-01-31T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:24:47","slug":"confluences-to-speak-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/10\/confluences-to-speak-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Confluences: To Speak of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In this online event, join three genre-defying and innovative writers who investigate death in their work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her &#8216;daring, poetic&#8217; debut novel <a href=\"https:\/\/canongate.co.uk\/books\/3311-mrs-death-misses-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Mrs Death Misses Death<\/em><\/a>, Salena Godden tells the story of Mrs Death, a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gail McConnell&#8217;s &#8216;exquisite&#8217; debut <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/08\/the-sun-is-open\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sun is Open<\/em><\/a> sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the author\u2019s father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris McCabe&#8217;s <em>Buried Garden <\/em>is the latest in his &#8216;elusive&#8217; series searching for the lost poets of the Victorian &#8216;Magnificent Seven&#8217; cemeteries of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation will be chaired by creative producer and &#8216;cultural omnivore&#8217; Georgia Attlesey and will feature readings from each writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an online event that will be conducted via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets are pay as you feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this online event, join three genre-defying and innovative writers who investigate death in their work In her &#8216;daring, poetic&#8217; debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death, Salena Godden tells the story of Mrs Death, a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Gail McConnell&#8217;s &#8216;exquisite&#8217; debut The Sun is Open sifts through [&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\/20387"}],"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=20387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20391,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions\/20391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}