{"id":867,"date":"2010-04-25T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=867"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:40:33","slug":"omnipotent-download-provocateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/04\/omnipotent-download-provocateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnipotent download provocateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic review of <strong>Ross Sutherland&#8217;s<\/strong> debut book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\">Things To Do Before You Leave Town<\/a>, has appeared on lit-blog <strong>Eyewear<\/strong> from the pen of <strong>Christopher Horton<\/strong>. Here is what he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sutherland is a veritable journeyman, compelled to move on, to seek comfort in the ephemeral. As such his poetry is frequently delivered in the form of snapshots, recorded as if from the perspective of a passer-by. In \u2018When Paperboys Roamed the Earth\u2019, his voice is at its strongest as he flits between the lives of others, observing their idiosyncrasies acutely. This is typified in two lines that sum-up Englishness better than Larkin ever did, \u2018A thousand bald patches begin to itch. An egg boils. Here is the news\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full review <a href=\"http:\/\/toddswift.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/guest-review-horton-on-sutherland.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/classic\/author-photos\/sutherland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Things To Do Before You Leave Town<\/em> is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\">direct from us<\/a>, priced \u00a36.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic review of Ross Sutherland&#8217;s debut book, Things To Do Before You Leave Town, has appeared on lit-blog Eyewear from the pen of Christopher Horton. Here is what he says: Sutherland is a veritable journeyman, compelled to move on, to seek comfort in the ephemeral. As such his poetry is frequently delivered in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16239,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}