{"id":2985,"date":"2020-05-06T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:32:11","slug":"alumna-gemma-jackson-publishes-collection-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/05\/06\/alumna-gemma-jackson-publishes-collection-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Gemma Jackson publishes collection of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Jackson, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/132\/english-and-american-literature-and-creative-writing\">BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/211\/creative-writing\">MA Creative Writing<\/a> alumna, has recently published a collection of her poetry, entitled <em>Aprire<\/em> (Broken Sleep Books, 2020).<\/p>\n<p><em>Aprire<\/em> is 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. <em>Aprire<\/em>, the Italian verb for \u2018open\u2019, is a lucid and original pamphlet containing myriad forms and strange, often surprising, content. <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&#8217;s website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/gemma-jackson-aprire\">https:\/\/www.brokensleepbooks.com\/product-page\/gemma-jackson-aprire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Jackson, a BA (Hons) English Literature and Creative Writing and MA Creative Writing alumna, has recently published a collection of her poetry, entitled Aprire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/05\/06\/alumna-gemma-jackson-publishes-collection-of-poetry\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87526,21640,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985"}],"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\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}