{"id":272,"date":"2020-08-15T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-08-15T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:26:57","slug":"something-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"something exciting…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have a grand (and very prickly) announcement to make, in that my debut pamphlet will be published by the wonderful Hedgehog Poetry Press<\/a> later this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An amusing tale, the poems featured in this mini collection didn\u2019t \u2018fit\u2019 into the main pamphlet I\u2019ve been working on for a while, but when I put all the offcuts together, they told their own story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As luck would have it, Mark Davidson (Hedgehog\u2019s Editor) was publicising a competition for a short collection based around the idea of \u2018a time to think\u2019<\/a>. Ironically, I didn\u2019t really think there was much chance of attracting any attention, but a phrase keeps bouncing around my head of late \u2013 \u2018in it to win it\u2019… and so off I sent my little series of poems, expecting them to arrive back very soon with tales of their adventures, who they\u2019d met and so on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But \u2013 unbelievably so \u2013 it would seem they have found themselves a home! Yes, \u2018Lost & Found\u2019 will be made into a proper book, with an ISBN and everything(!) due to hit the doormats of those interested in October\/November \u2013 which makes me feel extremely happy indeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Affirmation in a time of doubt, realisation that the dream\ncould actually be a reality, the prospect that somebody somewhere might want to\nown some of my poems \u2013 all this equates to a big slice of YESSS which I will\nforever cherish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks goes to Mark, for such a wonderful opportunity. And if you’re reading this – to you too, for your support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Mohamed\nNohassi<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a grand (and very prickly) announcement to make, in that my debut pamphlet will be published by the wonderful Hedgehog Poetry Press later this year. An amusing tale, the poems featured in this mini collection didn\u2019t \u2018fit\u2019 into the main pamphlet I\u2019ve been working on for a while, but when I put all the offcuts together, they told their own story. As luck would have it, Mark Davidson (Hedgehog\u2019s Editor) was publicising a competition for a short collection based around the idea of \u2018a time to think\u2019. Ironically, I didn\u2019t really think there was much chance of attracting any attention, but a phrase keeps bouncing around my head of late \u2013 \u2018in it to win it\u2019… and so off I sent my little series of poems, expecting them to arrive back very soon with tales of their adventures, who they\u2019d met and so on. But \u2013 unbelievably so \u2013 it would seem they have found themselves a home! Yes, \u2018Lost & Found\u2019 will be made into a proper book, with an ISBN and everything(!) due to hit the doormats of those interested in October\/November \u2013 which makes me feel extremely happy indeed. Affirmation in a time of doubt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[26,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vicpickup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mohamed-nohassi-_U8RyuBtvQU-unsplash-1.jpg?fit=640%2C883&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicpickup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}