{"id":30569,"date":"2015-11-17T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30569"},"modified":"2015-11-17T21:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T08:57:47","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-i-am-guest-editor-on-the-hub-featuring-wade-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/the-tuesday-poem-i-am-guest-editor-on-the-hub-featuring-wade-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: I Am Guest Editor On The Hub, Featuring Wade Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I am the guest editor on The Tuesday Poem Hub<\/a>, featuring Abdullah, Servant of God<\/em> by Christchurch poet, Wade Bishop.<\/p>\n

\"Wade<\/a>

Wade Bishop<\/p><\/div>\n

Wade has kindly provided a background to the poem, which begins:<\/p>\n

” Syria was never on my “must see” list when I was traveling, but just happened to be “on the way” when I planned an overland trip from Turkey to Egypt in 1997.\u00a0 …\u00a0 Syria has always been sold as the “hotbed of terrorism”, the home of “tea towel wearing extremists” … I wasn’t sure what to expect.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And in my commentary, as guest editor, I observe the following (among a deal else):<\/p>\n

“When I first heard Wade Bishop read Abdullah, The Servant of God at the Canterbury Poets’ Collective several weeks ago, I was struck by the extent to which the poem not only addressed a real and pressing international issue, but did so out of direct experience. The authenticity of that experience speaks from every line of the poem …”<\/span>
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“Abdullah, The Servant of God<\/b><\/span>
\n He was not a handsome man<\/span>
\n not even in possession of a face that was easy to look into<\/span>
\n it was journey twisted and wrinkled like a baby at birth<\/span>
\n ……………………<\/span>only his never smoothed <\/span>
\n the folds filled with hopes and wonders …”
\n.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

To read more, please click on:<\/p>\n

Abdullah, The Servant of God<\/b> — by Wade Bishop<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

\"TuesPoem\"<\/a>To read this week\u2019s poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong>, and other great poems featured by fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am the guest editor on The Tuesday Poem Hub, featuring Abdullah, Servant of God by Christchurch poet, Wade Bishop. Wade has kindly provided a background to the poem, which begins: ” Syria was never on my “must see” list when I was traveling, but just happened to be “on the way” when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-writers","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30580,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569\/revisions\/30580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}