{"id":49,"date":"2008-05-31T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-05-31T00:11:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:11:58","slug":"at-last-the-aidan-coleman-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"at last, the aidan coleman review&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/avenues.jpg\" onclick=\"pp_image_popup('http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/avenues.jpg',283,474); return false;\" title=\"avenues\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_avenues.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"440\" alt=\"avenues\" class=\"pp_image\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;Walking the streets of Richmond and Netley as kids we saw no irony in Avenues devoid of trees; nothing unusual in the fact that all roads stopped at the edge of an aerodrome or that West Beach Road didn\u2019t actually go to West Beach any more\u2026 The landing lights on the cover of\u00a0<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Avenues &amp; Runways<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-style: normal\"><span style=\"color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0bring it all back \u2013 727s (\u201cthey leave the noise behind\u201d) skimming the last roofs, the chattering china in the cabinet, the electric crackle in the air above your head.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"color: #808080\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">The airport is the metaphor that inspires the collection. The airport is a black hole in a city viewed from The Hills, a \u201cmissing suburb.\u201d <\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compulsivereader.com\/html\/index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1933\">MORE<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #33cccc\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #33cccc\">I wrote this review of Aidan Coleman&#8217;s <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #33cccc\">Avenues &amp; Runways<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #33cccc\"> more than a year ago. Due to a lot of unforeseen circumstances, it&#8217;s only just seen the light of day on Maggie Ball&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compulsivereader.com\/html\/\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #33cccc\">Compulsive Reader<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #33cccc\">\u00a0site. Ah well, better late than never. It&#8217;s a brilliant collection and it deserves a plug.<\/span><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Walking the streets of Richmond and Netley as kids we saw no irony in Avenues devoid of trees; nothing unusual in the fact that all roads stopped at the edge of an aerodrome or that West Beach Road didn\u2019t actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}