{"id":188,"date":"2014-03-05T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:16:11","slug":"collusion-brook-emery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Collusion: Brook Emery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Collusion2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31\" alt=\"Collusion2\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Collusion2-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Collusion2-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Collusion2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 978-0-9808523-6-3 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a070pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95<\/p>\n<p>Brook Emery\u2019s mode is enquiry, with a gentle insistence that enquiry matters. Fluent, occasionally epigrammatic, and showing a quiet humour, this is generous, open-minded poetry. As in previous collections Emery\u2019s interest is in the intersections of the material, the spiritual and the rational. The poems are loosely addressed as letters to some implied correspondent, who might be real, the self or the unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0<em>Collusion<\/em>\u00a0is metaphysical in intent, the poems keep up a habit of sharp and tactile observation \u2013 the abstract becomes sensuous, and the intellectual makes friends with the physical. Swinging between affirmation and uncertainty, they weigh up the beauty and losses of the natural and human worlds.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Collusion Sample poems\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/27.-collusionFeb2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is a selection of poems from\u00a0<em>Collusion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Collusion: Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=310\" target=\"_blank\">Reviews<\/a>: Collusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN: 978-0-9808523-6-3 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a070pp. pbk \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0\u00a0RRP: 24.95 Brook Emery\u2019s mode is enquiry, with a gentle insistence that enquiry matters. Fluent, occasionally epigrammatic, and showing a quiet humour, this is generous, open-minded poetry. As in previous collections Emery\u2019s interest is in the intersections of the material, the spiritual and the rational. The poems [&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\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}