{"id":2530,"date":"2020-10-15T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:10:17","slug":"still-life-with-a-map-of-the-world-outside-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/2020\/10\/15\/still-life-with-a-map-of-the-world-outside-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Life with a Map of the World Outside the Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Still Life with a Map of the World Outside the Window&#039; by Professor Ruth Padel\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqbDhD4okmk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry at King\u2019s College London reads from her poem \u2018Still Life with a Map of the World Outside the Window\u2019 from the new anthology\u00a0<i>Staying Human: New poems for Staying Alive<\/i>, edited by Neil Astley and\u00a0published by Bloodaxe Books.<\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ruth Padel describes this as &#8216;a poem of despair and hope&#8217;. The poem opens a window on to a series of strange, sad, surprising and heartwarming scenes during lockdown. Meditating upon the impact of the pandemic on everyday lives, Padel&#8217;s poem is a resonant reflection for our times.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Staying Human<\/em> is published by Bloodaxe and is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/ecs\/product\/staying-human-1185\"><strong>buy online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Blog posts on King\u2019s English represent the views of the individual authors and neither those of the English Department, nor of King\u2019s College London.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry at King\u2019s College London reads from her poem \u2018Still Life with a Map of the World Outside the Window\u2019 from the new anthology\u00a0Staying Human: New poems for Staying Alive, edited by Neil Astley and\u00a0published by Bloodaxe Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":2532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,912,25],"tags":[967,965,892,224,946,896,475,118,91,966],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20th-21st-centuries","category-insights","category-life-writing-creative-writing-and-performance","tag-bloodaxe-books","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-creative-writing","tag-lockdown","tag-pandemic","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-ruth-padel","tag-staying-human","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}