{"id":7831,"date":"2022-12-01T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2025-05-13T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T07:55:31","slug":"elisabeth-bletsoe-two-poems-and-a-miscellany-for-chris-torrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/7831\/elisabeth-bletsoe-two-poems-and-a-miscellany-for-chris-torrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Bletsoe: Two Poems and a Miscellany for Chris Torrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Poems Written for Chris:<\/p>\n

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Here Hare Here<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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BIRDS OF THE SHERBORNE MISSAL XVI<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Stone T. in the “Cobweb Palace” <\/strong>(Chris’s title for the photo)<\/p>\n

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A Letter from Chris<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Two Valentines from Chris<\/strong><\/div>\n
(one made out of lichen, the other I keep on the fridge – we had a ritual of sending each other valentines every year.)<\/div>\n

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Elisabeth Bletsoe is the curator of Sherborne Museum in Dorset and was a friend of Chris Torrance for over 30 years. Here Hare Here<\/em> appeared in The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry<\/em>, ed Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman Books, 2011) and Wrenne, Wren<\/em> in The Lonely Crowd 7<\/em> (ed. Chris Cornwell) and Birds of The Sherborne Missal<\/em>\u00a0 (Shearsman Books, 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two Poems Written for Chris:   Here Hare Here   BIRDS OF THE SHERBORNE MISSAL XVI     Stone T. in the “Cobweb Palace” (Chris’s title for the photo)   A Letter from Chris         Two Valentines from Chris (one made out of lichen, the other I keep on the fridge – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[66,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-22j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831"}],"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=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}