{"id":6701,"date":"2021-11-15T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2021-11-16T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:53:17","slug":"angela-gardner-the-painful-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6701\/angela-gardner-the-painful-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Gardner: The Painful Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Gardner: &#8216;The Painful Abyss&#8217;\u00a0is a long piece I wrote using mutations or springboards from Dante&#8217;s Paradise and Inferno in the original Italian. It was written while I was learning Italian (I still am) so it very much includes misunderstandings and meanderings from the original text.\u00a0 I allowed\u00a0it to lose itself in the\u00a0dark wood and become an\u00a0<em>unfaithful<\/em>\u00a0translation. At the time of writing the Iraq war was beginning and then in progress. Even at a distance and mediated by news reports I was incensed. We marched and nothing came of it, wars keep going, mutating and springboarding as part of the military industrial capitalist endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>To read the poem:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/The-Painful-Abyss.pdf\">The Painful Abyss<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">ANGELA GARDNER is a Welsh\/Australian artist and poet. Her verse novel\u00a0<em>The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette<\/em>\u00a0is published by Shearsman Books, it is a UK\u00a0<em>National Poetry Day<\/em>\u00a0recommendation for 2021.\u00a0Her recent poetry collections are\u00a0<em>Some<\/em>\u00a0<em>Sketchy Notes on Matter<\/em>, Recent Work Press, Canberra 2020 and\u00a0<em>The Told World<\/em>, Shearsman Books, 2014.\u00a0 Poems have been published in\u00a0<em>The Yale Review<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>West Branch<\/em>\u00a0USA;\u00a0<em>Blackbox Manifold<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Long Poem\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Tears in the Fence<\/em>,\u00a0UK;\u00a0<em>Plumwood Mountain,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Westerley, Southerly,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Cordite<\/em>, Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Click here to go back to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/7392\/contributors-and-links-to-pages-4\/\">Contributors and Links to Pages 1 &#8211; 4<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Gardner: &#8216;The Painful Abyss&#8217;\u00a0is a long piece I wrote using mutations or springboards from Dante&#8217;s Paradise and Inferno in the original Italian. It was written while I was learning Italian (I still am) so it very much includes misunderstandings and meanderings from the original text.\u00a0 I allowed\u00a0it to lose itself in the\u00a0dark wood and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7166,"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":[64,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/images-2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1K5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701"}],"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=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}