{"id":20667,"date":"2022-04-19T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=20667"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T15:27:17","slug":"launch-of-out-for-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/launch-of-out-for-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Out for Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Olly Todd and special guest Sam Buchan-Watts to celebrate the launch of Olly&#8217;s debut collection, <em>Out for Air<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FLOvFjwWUAE6gKF?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Out for Air<\/em> is the exhilarating first collection of poetry by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infused with movement, surprise and play, <em>Out for Air<\/em> presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where \u2018the bridges are endless \/ beyond the cantilever \/ of reality\u2019. Each poem is its own event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd rewires T. S. Eliot\u2019s <em>Waste Land<\/em> in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is <em>genius loci<\/em>, the spirit of the place. From Manhattan\u2019s \u2018silky streets\u2019 and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Olly Todd and special guest Sam Buchan-Watts to celebrate the launch of Olly&#8217;s debut collection, Out for Air. Out for Air is the exhilarating first collection of poetry by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd. Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where [&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\/20667"}],"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=20667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20667\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}