{"id":168,"date":"2014-03-05T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:10:20","slug":"marriage-for-beginners-catherine-bateson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Marriage for Beginners: Catherine Bateson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/marriageforbeginners2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16\" alt=\"marriageforbeginners2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/marriageforbeginners2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/marriageforbeginners2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/marriageforbeginners2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN:\u00a0<a title=\"libx-autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au\/search\/i?0980526965&amp;startLimit=&amp;endLimit=\">9780980526967<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a070 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Bateson\u2019s new poetry collection has at its centre three lively sequences that address the hard graft of spiritual negotiation. Imagined for present, past and future times, each of them tracks the slow and the sudden dissolution of love \u2013 yet love stories they are. Her characters are distinctly and originally conceived, with a habitual storyteller\u2019s craft.<\/p>\n<p>Fore and aft of these sequences are some poems that are more directly reflective. \u2018Marriage\u2019 is the familiar here \u2013 or at least the otherness of daughterhood, motherhood and being a lover. \u2018Beginners\u2019, it is suggested, is what we remain.<\/p>\n<p>These poems are wise, unillusioned and generous, reminding us that \u2018each morning\/the fat eye of love\/ winks back\u2019. The poetry throughout has a confident grasp of telling images, and of tonal and rhythmical tact.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MArriage for Beginners: Samples\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/17.-MarriageforBeginnersSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Marriage for Beginners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Catherine Bateson\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=288\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Marriage for Beginners<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a09780980526967\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a070 pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 Catherine Bateson\u2019s new poetry collection has at its centre three lively sequences that address the hard graft of spiritual negotiation. Imagined for present, past and future times, each of them tracks the slow and the sudden dissolution of love \u2013 yet love stories they are. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}