{"id":3824,"date":"2011-12-30T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T03:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2011-12-30T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T03:04:49","slug":"twas-brillig-and-the-slithy-poems-did-gyre-and-gimble-in-the-wabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/12\/30\/twas-brillig-and-the-slithy-poems-did-gyre-and-gimble-in-the-wabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Twas brillig, and the slithy poems did gyre and gimble in the wabe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many will have a horror of poetry.  Possibly this was inculcated by being forced to wrestle with Beowulf and Chaucer in school English Literature lessons; then having to endure dire performance  poets at &#8220;open mic&#8221; student nights while at university; and perhaps also by a simple 21st century incomprehension of any media form that does not immediately reveal its meanings.  But poetry can have a horror all its own.  Evan Peterson mused on the form a few weeks ago, in his article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smalldoggiesmagazine.com\/features\/intimate-monsters\/the-poems-i-cant-un-read\/\">Intimate Monsters: Examining the Value of Horror in Poetry<\/a>&#8220;.  I was inspired by this article to go in search of similar open access articles, and found &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timpratt.org\/freshgraves.html\">Fresh Graves: An Essay On Horror Poetry<\/a>&#8220;; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/unspeakablehorror.com\/journal\/2009\/8\/25\/the-stigma-of-horror-poetry.html\">The Stigma of Horror Poetry<\/a>&#8220;; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/richristow.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/horror-poetry-why-hell-would-you-want.html\">Horror Poetry: Why The Hell Would You Want to Write That Shit?<\/a>&#8220;.  There is also a newsletter, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katybennett.co.uk\/newsletter.html\">Dark Metre: The Free Newsletter For Horror Poetry<\/a><\/em> which was started in 2011 and which has so far produced a laudible 11 issues.  I also noticed that there&#8217;s a mild debate on &#8216;can heavy metal music lyrics count as horror poetry?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rise_from_the_ashes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rise_from_the_ashes.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rise_from_the_ashes\" width=\"529\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3825\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many will have a horror of poetry. Possibly this was inculcated by being forced to wrestle with Beowulf and Chaucer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/12\/30\/twas-brillig-and-the-slithy-poems-did-gyre-and-gimble-in-the-wabe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}