{"id":452,"date":"2011-03-21T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/?p=452"},"modified":"2014-02-11T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T22:15:27","slug":"a-hundred-doors-michael-longleys-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"A Hundred Doors &#8211; Michael Longley&#8217;s new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something almost miraculous about the combination of quietness and penetrative power in <em>A Hundred Doors<\/em>, Michael Longley\u2019s new book from Jonathan Cape. I\u2019m looking forward to reviewing it but it will be a daunting task. Each poem is assembled with such extreme reticence and delicacy and at the same time packs such an enormous punch that the attempt to paraphrase and explain will seem even more out of keeping with the original than writing about poetry usually does. Meanwhile I\u2019d just like to recommend all lovers of Longley\u2019s work to buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something almost miraculous about the combination of quietness and penetrative power in A Hundred Doors, Michael Longley\u2019s new book from Jonathan Cape. I\u2019m looking forward to reviewing it but it will be a daunting task. Each poem is assembled with such extreme reticence and delicacy and at the same time packs such an enormous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-longley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmundprestwich.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}