{"id":17,"date":"2018-05-06T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/eborakon-vol-2-issue-1\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:29:58","slug":"eborakon-vol-2-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/eborakon-vol-2-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Eborakon (Vol 2 Issue 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"3120\" data-orig-width=\"4160\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/2b408ae2a8d67bcb9bd77fb2e408c8ae\/tumblr_inline_p8b5wxpqK51s2cvuu_540.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"3120\" data-orig-width=\"4160\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Belatedly drawing attention to the newest issue of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eborakon.com\/\">Eborakon<\/a><\/i>, published by the University of York, a handsomely produced, neat little poetry journal that also includes visual art and reviews. The editors have included a poem of mine entitled\u00a0\u2018<b>Terminal Ballistics<\/b>\u2019. It\u2019s one of the poems I salvaged from my years working as a transcript editor in London courts and arbitration centres, and takes its cue in particular from a case concerning naval ordnance. Terminal ballistics (or\u00a0\u2018wound ballistics\u2019) is the study of the behaviour of projectile weapons when they meet their target. I noted down as many pieces of terminology as I could from the experts in the case and substituted them in to lines from various poems of love and tenderness. So it\u2019s a love-hate song of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph above was taken in Hunstanton on the West Norfolk coast, while waiting for the bus, shortly after having met the dedicated squad of axolotls pictured below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"3120\" data-orig-width=\"4160\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/199f474136e6b8068254157391a35b5f\/tumblr_inline_p8b5x8fsPJ1s2cvuu_540.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"3120\" data-orig-width=\"4160\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belatedly drawing attention to the newest issue of Eborakon, published by the University of York, a handsomely produced, neat little poetry journal that also includes visual art and reviews. The editors have included a poem of mine entitled\u00a0\u2018Terminal Ballistics\u2019. It\u2019s one of the poems I salvaged from my years working as a transcript editor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,69,72,73,4,70,75,71,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}