{"id":8179,"date":"2015-04-03T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2015-06-08T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:27:27","slug":"launch-of-the-good-dark-the-lost-art-of-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/launch-of-the-good-dark-the-lost-art-of-sinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: The Good Dark & The Lost Art of Sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Join us for a literary summer party to celebrate the launch of two exciting new books: The Good Dark<\/em> by Edinburgh-based American poet Ryan Van Winkle, and The Lost Art of Sinking<\/em>, a debut novella by Naomi Booth.<\/h2>\n

Beautifully written, funny, mischievous and touching<\/p>\n

Nicholas Royle<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Lost Art of Sinking<\/em> is the story of Esther, who lives in the Pennines with her father. Esther is obsessed with experimenting with different ways to pass out: from snorting Daz powder at school to autoasphyxiation in a serviced apartment in London. But what happens when you take something too far? And what has Esther\u2019s mother, a beautiful dancer wasting away in her bedroom, to do with it all? The Lost Art of Sinking<\/em> is a dark comedy about losing yourself. Sensual, funny and exquisitely written, this bold novella introduces a fresh literary voice in Naomi Booth.<\/p>\n

Intimate and haunting<\/p>\n

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In his atmospheric second collection, Ryan Van Winkle charts loves won and loves lost. A lyric voice that is both familiar and strangely different leads us through the shifting forests of memory and towards a grim acknowledgement of the need to get up, to be careful, to move. The Good Dark<\/em> includes poems from Van Winkle\u2019s acclaimed one-on-one poetry performance Red, Like Our Room Used to Feel<\/em> (Edinburgh Fringe 2012) and cements his reputation as one of the most evocative poets writing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us for a literary summer party to celebrate the launch of two exciting new books: The Good Dark by Edinburgh-based American poet Ryan Van Winkle, and The Lost Art of Sinking, a debut novella by Naomi Booth. Beautifully written, funny, mischievous and touching Nicholas Royle The Lost Art of Sinking is the story of […]<\/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\/8179"}],"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=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}