{"id":5532,"date":"2019-06-12T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:31:55","slug":"the-handle-of-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/5532\/the-handle-of-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Handle of the Door’ by Christopher Twigg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Handle of the Door<\/em> is Christopher Twigg\u2019s first new collection since A Cherub that Sees Them<\/em> (2003) of which the late much missed John James wrote:<\/div>\n
\u2018A lovely book. I have read it several times and been beguiled. I have so many favourites it\u2019s difficult to single them out. I shall return to it again and remain open to its lessons of singular<\/div>\n
directness and clarity\u2019.<\/div>\n
The new poems concern the deaths of parents, Twigg\u2019s rediscovery of Spain, Estuaries, Immortalities, Port Waters and Opening Doors. \u00a0A central sequence comprises the Sermons of a Quixotic Evangelist.<\/div>\n
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\u2018A fine poet\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0 Anne Waldman<\/div>\n
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\u2018Much serious comedy\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0 Christopher Ricks<\/div>\n
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Published June 2019. UK \u00a310<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-9998367-3-3<\/p>\n

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The Handle of the Door is Christopher Twigg\u2019s first new collection since A Cherub that Sees Them (2003) of which the late much missed John James wrote: \u2018A lovely book. I have read it several times and been beguiled. I have so many favourites it\u2019s difficult to single them out. I shall return to it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Supreme-final-cover-2-e1560353430936.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}