{"id":182,"date":"2014-03-05T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:14:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:14:19","slug":"and-then-when-the-dan-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"and then when the: Dan Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/andthenwhenthe2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" alt=\"andthenwhenthe2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/andthenwhenthe2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/andthenwhenthe2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/andthenwhenthe2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 0 9808523 2 5 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a060pp. \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>Dan Disney\u2019s first full-length collection of poetry has at its heart a pleasure at surprise. Like Max Ernst\u2019s \u2018fortuitous meeting of distant realities\u2019, Disney\u2019s sometimes absurd, rhetorically-deft poems are the result of a questing imagination driving toward knowledge but able to be side-tracked along stranger, imperative paths.<\/p>\n<p>They are restlessly philosophical, and sometimes wildly surreal, and these things go surprisingly well, in Disney\u2019s imagination, with sharp, commonsense observation and understatement. The reader of\u00a0<em>And then when the<\/em>\u00a0may well be touched by a melancholy in the wit. The poetry is finely honed: the exactness of words is beautifully savoured in the lines.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"and then when the Sample poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/23.-andThenWhenTheSamples.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from<em>\u00a0and then when the.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"and then when the: Reciews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=306\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>:\u00a0<em>and then when the<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISBN: 0 9808523 2 5 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a060pp. \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 Dan Disney\u2019s first full-length collection of poetry has at its heart a pleasure at surprise. Like Max Ernst\u2019s \u2018fortuitous meeting of distant realities\u2019, Disney\u2019s sometimes absurd, rhetorically-deft poems are the result of a questing imagination driving toward knowledge but able to be [&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\/182"}],"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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}