{"id":20463,"date":"2021-11-10T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=20463"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:59:56","slug":"penned-in-the-margins-acquires-exhilarating-poetry-debut-by-former-pro-skateboarder-olly-todd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/penned-in-the-margins-acquires-exhilarating-poetry-debut-by-former-pro-skateboarder-olly-todd\/","title":{"rendered":"Penned in the Margins acquires \u2018exhilarating\u2019 poetry debut by former pro-skateboarder Olly Todd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Out for Air <\/em>is Todd\u2019s first full collection of poetry following his pamphlet <em>Odeum Spotlights <\/em>(Rough Trade Books, 2018) which was longlisted for the Michael Marks Awards. Publication is scheduled for April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of Penned in the Margins, Tom Chivers, says, \u2018Reading Olly Todd\u2019s poems is an exhilarating experience; expansive in scope but intricate in form, together they record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things. Often darkly funny and <em>always<\/em> surprising, Olly\u2019s poems range from Manhattan\u2019s \u2018silky streets\u2019 and the Pacific Coast Highway to his native Cumbria, reflecting movingly on love, friendship, family and the city. He writes with a skateboarder\u2019s eye for architectural detail, gradient and balance, the liberation of flight.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World rights were acquired directly from the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent publisher Penned in the Margins has acquired <i>Out for Air<\/i> from former professional skateboarder Olly Todd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,317],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20473,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions\/20473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}