{"id":34,"date":"2009-02-19T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/beta\/?p=34"},"modified":"2020-06-01T23:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T23:42:55","slug":"man-in-black-david-caddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/02\/man-in-black-david-caddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These poems are brimming with radical intent, drawing from a rich and varied lineage. Coleridge, Donne, Johnny Cash and the Renaissance alchemists John Dee and Robert Fludd are more than literary namedrops here \u2013 they are visionaries, true \u2018men in black\u2019, embodiments of dissent and an uncompromising search for answers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Man in Black<\/em> presents a startling vision of the countryside in decline, of \u2018absent Dorset folk\u2019 marginalised and repackaged for the tourist industry. In this vision, historical flashbacks and the ghosts of \u2018men in black\u2019 jostle for position with the contemporary; the learned with the lived. And all characterised by Caddy\u2019s probing, visceral poetic language. Together with his previous collection <em>The Willy Poems<\/em>, <em>Man in Black<\/em> presents Caddy\u2019s preoccupations with the outsider, the esoteric and the rural poor, confirming his reputation as one of England\u2019s most significant poets of place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These poems are brimming with radical intent, drawing from a rich and varied lineage. Coleridge, Donne, Johnny Cash and the Renaissance alchemists John Dee and Robert Fludd are more than literary namedrops here \u2013 they are visionaries, true \u2018men in black\u2019, embodiments of dissent and an uncompromising search for answers. Man in Black presents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,29],"tags":[99,101,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19493,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/19493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}