{"id":20487,"date":"2021-12-06T23:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=20487"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:29:33","slug":"penned-in-the-margins-acquires-witty-and-exacting-poetry-debut-by-holly-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/12\/penned-in-the-margins-acquires-witty-and-exacting-poetry-debut-by-holly-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Penned in the Margins acquires \u2018witty and exacting\u2019 poetry debut by Holly Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopkins\u2019 long-awaited debut confronts the illusions and paradoxes of English history in poems that range from medieval anchorites and 18th-century follies to zombies and the Megabus. This is a landscape populated by overcrowded urban bedsits and burnt out country piles, where ghosts of the past are sensed beneath dual carriageways and a \u2018pie-faced\u2019 St George is upstaged by the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Penned in the Margins Tom Chivers says, \u2018Holly\u2019s poems are clever, witty and exacting creations that probe our collective myths and mores. I was gripped from the first page.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins lives in Manchester and is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. <i>Poetry London<\/i> described her 2014 pamphlet <i>Soon Every House Will Have One<\/i> as \u2018ferociously impressive\u2019. Having trained as an archaeologist, her explorations of people and places &#8211; of landscapes real and projected, historical and imagined &#8211; are both thrilling and timely.<\/p>\n<p>World rights were acquired direct from the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>The English Summer<\/i> is the first full collection by Manchester-based poet Holly Hopkins and is scheduled for release in June 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487"}],"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=20487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20491,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20487\/revisions\/20491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}