{"id":314,"date":"2009-10-03T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/?p=314"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:37:24","slug":"moyra-at-st-james-wine-vaults-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/moyra-at-st-james-wine-vaults-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Moyra at St James Wine Vaults, Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moyra Caldecott will be one of the featured poets on 30th October 2009 at St James Wine Vaults, 10 St James Street, Bath BA1 2TW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a Performance&#8221; is an evening of poetry, story-telling, and music and songs. Please go along &#8212; the more the merrier.<\/p>\n<p>Although Moyra will be attending, friends will be reading her poems as, due to a stroke, Moyra is unable to speak coherently.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>On listening to a poet reading his own poem<\/h3>\n<p>Words spin and circle<br \/>\nlike diamonds in a whirlpool.<br \/>\nI catch only some<br \/>\nand fill in the blanks<br \/>\nfrom my own source pool,<br \/>\ninventing my own poem<br \/>\nas the poet&#8217;s words<br \/>\npass by.<br \/>\nA kingfisher&#8217;s wing<br \/>\nflashes in the sun<br \/>\nand dazzles me.<br \/>\nI pass out of understanding<br \/>\ninto a region<br \/>\nof pure beauty<br \/>\nand coast in<br \/>\non a different meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moyra Caldecott will be one of the featured poets on 30th October 2009 at St James Wine Vaults, 10 St James Street, Bath BA1 2TW. &#8220;What a Performance&#8221; is an evening of poetry, story-telling, and music and songs. Please go along &#8212; the more the merrier. Although Moyra will be attending, friends will be reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,11],"tags":[39,44,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events","7":"category-poetry","8":"tag-events","9":"tag-poetry","10":"tag-public-event"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}