{"id":39,"date":"2018-11-05T09:53:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T09:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/?p=39"},"modified":"2018-11-10T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T14:25:14","slug":"lydia-kennaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2018\/11\/05\/lydia-kennaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Kennaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions, latest Discoveries &amp; best observations y.t have beene made by English or Strangers<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/files\/2018\/11\/Seashell-In-Black-And-White-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"418\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Se\u00e1n Kiely<\/p><\/div>\n<pre>I have made landfall with a mouth full of sand,\r\ntossed from the sea with splintered fingers\r\nand a barnacled belly.\r\n\r\nI will eat nameless fruits and hope against poison. \r\nI will watch the moon rise while the turtles hatch\r\nand make their flappy way to water. \r\n\r\nI will scrimshaw a comb for a sweetheart\r\nI never had and sing to longfeathered birds\r\nshanties of blood-red roses.\r\n\r\nI will find passage on a passing caravel.\r\nI will return to the town I once called home.\r\nI will draw maps but make no claim\r\nthat they are true, only\r\n\r\nthat these are the things \r\nI have seen and the places\r\nI believe I have been.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lydia Kennaway<\/em><\/strong> is the winner of the 2017 Flambard Prize and her pamphlet,\u00a0<em>A History of Walking<\/em>, will be published by HappenStance in the autumn of 2019.\u00a0 Her poems were shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize and longlisted in the 2018 Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition. \u00a0Other poems have appeared in The Rialto, Strix and the 2014 Hippocrates Prize Anthology. \u2018A New &amp; Accurat Map of the World&#8230;\u2019 comes from Lydia\u2019s sequence,\u00a0<em>Dislocations<\/em>, written for the Finding Places module of the MA in Writing Poetry. It first appeared in the anthology,\u00a0<em>Any Change? Poetry in a Hostile Environment,\u00a0<\/em>edited by Ian Duhig and launched on National Poetry Day 2018\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions, latest Discoveries &amp; best observations y.t have beene made by English or Strangers I have made landfall with a mouth full of sand, tossed from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2018\/11\/05\/lydia-kennaway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-poetry","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}