{"id":2598,"date":"2015-11-24T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2015-11-24T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T10:12:07","slug":"two-poets-walk-into-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"two poets walk into a bar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-24-at-7.36.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-24-at-7.36.20-PM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-11-24 at 7.36.20 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-24-at-7.36.20-PM-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-24-at-7.36.20-PM-1024x575.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-24-at-7.36.20-PM-500x281.png 500w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-shot-2015-11-24-at-7.36.20-PM.png 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is a very quirky yet positive review of my <em>tropeland<\/em> and David Stavanger\u2019s <em>The Special<\/em> (winner of the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for 2013.) As well as summarizing the style and format of both books (with relevant quotes), reviewer Lucy Alexander imagines a conversation (showdown?) between the two poetic voices. It\u2019s a unique way to present a review and unsurprisingly it\u2019s on Verity La which is never shy to break new ground. Thanks to Lucy Alexander for her originality and editor Michele Seminara for publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review <a href=\"http:\/\/verityla.com\/the-special-and-tropeland\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very quirky yet positive review of my tropeland and David Stavanger\u2019s The Special (winner of the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for 2013.) As well as summarizing the style and format of both books (with relevant quotes), reviewer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}