{"id":2058,"date":"2021-01-23T21:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:42:20","slug":"reading-from-a-portable-paradise-roger-robinson-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2021\/01\/23\/reading-from-a-portable-paradise-roger-robinson-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading from &#8220;A Portable Paradise&#8221; &#8211; Roger Robinson (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Roger Robinson reading a few poems from his book &#8220;A portable paradise&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0iaU5xDUcoQ\">poems<\/a> which were supposed to be about the &#8220;utopian ideal of paradise&#8221;, but ended being also about the Grenfell Tower, Windrush, and his new-born son. I am discovering poets reading their poems. It has so much more sense and depth than when I read them from a book. These readings convey all the history of the poems, the poet&#8217;s memories, and the emotions of the story. You can hear what they mean. I shed tears every time. Powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Another consultant tells the nurses to stop feeding a baby,&nbsp;who will soon die,<br>and she commands her loyal nurses to feed him. \u201cNo baby must dead<br>wid a hungry belly.\u201d And she\u2019d sit in the dark, rocking that&nbsp;well-fed baby,<br>held to her bosom, slowly humming the melody of \u201cHappy\u201d by Pharrell.<br>And I think, if by some chance, I\u2019m not here and my son\u2019s life&nbsp;should flicker,<br>then Grace, she should be the one.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Roger Robinson reading a few poems from his book &#8220;A portable paradise&#8221;, poems which were supposed to be about the &#8220;utopian ideal of paradise&#8221;, but ended being also about the Grenfell Tower, Windrush, and his new-born son. I am discovering poets reading their poems. It has so much more sense and depth than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[56,92,13],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardians-feed-your-soul","category-poems","tag-death","tag-hope","tag-resilience"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nick-fewings-ioNNsLBO8hE-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}