{"id":3114,"date":"2020-05-14T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:26:11","slug":"third-prize-pippa-little-spell-for-a-stonemason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"Third Prize: Pippa Little, <h6>&#8216;Spell for a Stonemason&#8217;<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pippa Little&#8217;s poem &#8216;Spell for a Stonemason&#8217; has won\u00a0Third\u00a0Prize in the 2020 <a title=\"Content related to Newcastle Poetry Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?tag=newcastle-poetry-competition\">Newcastle Poetry Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/413605875\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spell for a Stonemason<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sister flies south for a day and a night,<\/p>\n<p>a night and a day.<\/p>\n<p>This first early dusk without her<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I stir cumin, turmeric and saffron into burnished oil<\/p>\n<p>as god-speed and in gratitude, for here<\/p>\n<p>we are turning away from the sun; soon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>your hands will remember how cut stone sings with cold,<\/p>\n<p>new tombs memorise themselves in frost.<\/p>\n<p>Shyly you brought it, gold leaf fine as skin,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>burning soft for the sockets of her boy\u2019s name<\/p>\n<p>on his wind-bleached grave. It warms itself now<\/p>\n<p>in the ammonite darkness of her case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen looms yellow-deep;<\/p>\n<p>I think how loving kindness can anneal old hurts,<\/p>\n<p>bless dry tributaries; how my spoon\u2019s arc,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>swirling jet trails of gleam and solder,<\/p>\n<p>is a kind of wildfire<\/p>\n<p>seen from a back road far into the woods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pippa Little lives in Northumberland where she has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University. Her first collection\u00a0<em>Overwintering<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet, 2012) was shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Award; her second\u00a0<em>Twist<\/em>\u00a0(Arc, 2017) for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year. A third is forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippa Little&#8217;s poem &#8216;Spell for a Stonemason&#8217; has won\u00a0Third\u00a0Prize in the 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition. &nbsp; Spell for a Stonemason &nbsp; Sister flies south for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[664,604,227,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}