{"id":538,"date":"2013-09-17T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=538"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:59:04","slug":"patricia-debney-highly-commended-by-the-forward-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/09\/17\/patricia-debney-highly-commended-by-the-forward-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Debney &#8216;Highly Commended&#8217; by the Forward Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer\u00a0Patricia Debney&#8217;s prose poem &#8216;Whitstable Spit&#8217; has been Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes, and included in this year&#8217;s anthology, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/catalog\/the-forward-book-of-poetry-2013\/9780571299010\"><i>Forward Book of Poetry 2013<\/i><\/a>. Her collection of prose poems,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shearsman.com\/pages\/books\/catalog\/2013\/debney.html\"><i>Littoral<\/i><\/a>, was written while on a six-week residency in a beach hut on the North Kent coast. In it, she charts the shift from grief to acceptance of her young son&#8217;s diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. The poetry collection, which was launched in London and Canterbury at the end of the summer term, was written a few miles from the University of Kent&#8217;s Canterbury campus and has been described as &#8216;a\u00a0refreshing and original collection&#8217; (Jane Monson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer\u00a0Patricia Debney&#8217;s prose poem &#8216;Whitstable Spit&#8217; has been Highly Commended by the Forward Prizes, and included in this year&#8217;s anthology, the\u00a0Forward Book of Poetry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/09\/17\/patricia-debney-highly-commended-by-the-forward-prizes\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"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\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}