{"id":2705,"date":"2020-06-08T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:05:59","slug":"alumna-gemma-jackson-publishes-collection-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/08\/alumna-gemma-jackson-publishes-collection-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Gemma Jackson publishes collection of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/Gemma-Jackson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2715\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/Gemma-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"Gemma Jackson\" width=\"252\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gemma Jackson, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/132\/english-and-american-literature-and-creative-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/211\/creative-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MA Creative Writing<\/a>\u00a0alumna, has recently published a collection of her poetry, entitled\u00a0<em>Aprire<\/em>\u00a0(Broken Sleep Books, 2020).<\/p>\n<p><em>Aprire<\/em>\u00a0is a pamphlet deeply rooted in the traditions of experimental poetry, eschewing titles and capital letters for a fluid, stream of consciousness style, tidal wave of poetry.\u00a0<em>Aprire<\/em>, the Italian verb for \u2018open\u2019, is a lucid and original pamphlet containing myriad forms and strange, often surprising, content.\u00a0<em>Aprire<\/em>, to borrow a phrase from Jackson, is: \u201cwhat happens when they give you language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More details about the book can be found on the publisher\u2019s website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/gemma-jackson-aprire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/gemma-jackson-aprire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Jackson, a\u00a0BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing\u00a0and\u00a0MA Creative Writing\u00a0alumna, has recently published a collection of her poetry, entitled\u00a0Aprire\u00a0(Broken Sleep Books, 2020). Aprire\u00a0is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/08\/alumna-gemma-jackson-publishes-collection-of-poetry\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[807,1225,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}