{"id":1428,"date":"2017-09-29T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2017-10-02T13:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:51:57","slug":"poetry-reading-with-christopher-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2017\/09\/29\/poetry-reading-with-christopher-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry reading with Christopher Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2017\/09\/christopher-reid-banner-e1463749409635.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1429\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2017\/09\/christopher-reid-banner-e1463749409635.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2017\/09\/christopher-reid-banner-e1463749409635.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2017\/09\/christopher-reid-banner-e1463749409635-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pilgrims Hospices and the School of English invite you to an evening of poetry with celebrated poet Christopher Reid as part of the Canterbury Festival.\u00a0 Lucinda Gane, Christopher\u2019s wife, died in October 2005.\u00a0 \u2018A Scattering\u2019 is his tribute to her and consists of four poetic sequences, the first written during her final illness and the other three at intervals after her death.\u00a0\u00a0 The collection has been described by the Guardian as \u201ca lucid, cogent panorama of grief and loss\u201d which \u201cinvite the reader in without reserve\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The reading will be held at 6:30pm on Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> October at Waterstones in Canterbury.\u00a0\u00a0 Tickets are \u00a33 and are available from the venue, with proceeds going to the Pigrims Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"mailto:education@pilgrimshospices.org\">education@pilgrimshospices.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pilgrims Hospices and the School of English invite you to an evening of poetry with celebrated poet Christopher Reid as part of the Canterbury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2017\/09\/29\/poetry-reading-with-christopher-reid\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,143219,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}