{"id":523,"date":"2014-05-28T00:59:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:44:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:44:35","slug":"stone-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Stone Postcard: Paul Magee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stonepostcardcover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stonepostcardcover-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"stonepostcardcover\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stonepostcardcover-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/stonepostcardcover.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-0-9808523-9-4 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a072 pp \u2022 RRP 24.95<\/p>\n<p>The title poem in <em>Stone Postcard<\/em> is a passionate drama that thinks through the close kinship of solace and trauma, something neither private nor public, and always waiting. The book as a whole moves with that spacious idea. The focus is intense, as you might expect. The tone, at the same time, is often laconic.<\/p>\n<p>There are two Parts. The first, starting with a birth and fractured family, has an intimate scope; the second carries questions of belonging out to wider horizons. Paul Magee\u2019s variety takes in a policeman embracing an exploding man in Iraq, the international committee that met to recalibrate the metre in 1983, a keyhole view, a toddler at the beach, visits to an office of Employment Plus, and to New Jersey. Virgil\u2019s detailed, horrific account of war\u2019s chaos in the siege of Latium unfolds a nine-page climax to the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/StonePostcardPaulMageeWEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is\u00a0a selection of Poems from Stone Postcard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mascarareview.com\/bonny-cassidy-reviews-stone-postcard-by-paul-magee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN 978-0-9808523-9-4 \u00a0\u2022 \u00a072 pp \u2022 RRP 24.95 The title poem in Stone Postcard is a passionate drama that thinks through the close kinship of solace and trauma, something neither private nor public, and always waiting. The book as a whole moves with that spacious idea. The focus is intense, as you might expect. The [&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\/523"}],"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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}