{"id":4493,"date":"2013-11-06T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2013-12-22T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T21:03:08","slug":"bose-silva-lee-houghton-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/bose-silva-lee-houghton-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: Bose, Silva, Lee-Houghton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2893\/9315015035_1e904a2d31_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three of the UK\u2019s most exciting voices read from their new collections in a night of cutting-edge poetry from award-winning independent literary publisher Penned in the Margins.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn poet Melissa Lee-Houghton celebrates the launch of her second book, <em>Beautiful Girls<\/em>: a raw and powerful account of mental illness that has been awarded a PBS Recommendation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not a book for the feint-hearted<br \/>\n<em>\u2013 Chris McCabe<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hannah Silva, widely acclaimed for her innovative vocal performances, reads from her debut collection <em>Forms of Protest<\/em> \u2013 her texts deconstruct the defunct languages of political and literary discourse, claiming a new space, a liminal zone between things as they sound\u2026 and things as they are.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Radical, political, courageous<br \/>\n<em>\u2013\u00a0What&#8217;s on Stage<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Siddhartha Bose&#8217;s second book <em>Digital Monsoon<\/em>, dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London populated by the ghosts of a multicultural city. His new collection celebrates the dynamism of urban edgelands in his trademark open field, rhythmical style.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Poems with the sprung dazzle of jazz. Bose makes it new.<br \/>\n<em>\u2013 Jeet Thayil<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=M1+5BY&amp;aq=&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=60.935792,135.263672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Manchester+M1+5BY,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=53.472912,-2.243752&amp;spn=0.01138,0.033023&amp;t=m&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the UK\u2019s most exciting voices read from their new collections in a night of cutting-edge poetry from award-winning independent literary publisher Penned in the Margins. Blackburn poet Melissa Lee-Houghton celebrates the launch of her second book, Beautiful Girls: a raw and powerful account of mental illness that has been awarded a PBS Recommendation. [&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\/4493"}],"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=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}