{"id":112,"date":"2015-01-06T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2021-05-08T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T17:28:47","slug":"crazy-days","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/?page_id=112","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Carole Coates<br \/>\nISBN 978-0-9928946-4-1<br \/>\nPrice \u00a35 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of Stock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When her life was inexplicably thrown into turmoil, Carole Coates had both the presence of mind and the skill to record the experience and in so doing has produced beautiful examples of how personal difficulty can transform itself into art. With candour, compassion and wit, her common-sense and intimately pitched voice manages to convey, in a deeply affecting way, the confusion and pathos of the situation she and her husband struggled with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;These are\u00a0well crafted, tender poems, whose long lines hint at runaway thoughts that sometimes seem on the verge of getting out of control. You should buy the book to allow Coates to tell you the whole story \u2013 including its ending.&#8217; Mike Bartholomew-Biggs,\u00a0<em>londongrip.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carole reads two poems from Crazy Days here:<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iXOT1Shqgt4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/iXOT1Shqgt4<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><em>Crazy Days 8<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>When your clever doctor friend told me<br \/>\nyou might have Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease<br \/>\nthose were the only words<br \/>\nthat I could say: Creutzfeldt Jakob<br \/>\nuntil those jagged unkind syllables<br \/>\nbecame a place \u2013<\/p>\n<p>a featureless dark plain<br \/>\ncontinent-wide and no-one there but us,<br \/>\nthe two of us, with not a tree, just earth<br \/>\nso flat \u2013 so flat<br \/>\nsucked down from underneath, it seemed,<br \/>\nby unappeasable great appetites.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered a woman I knew once<br \/>\nwho refused all other mourners<br \/>\nat her husband\u2019s grave.<br \/>\nThere were the two of us, she said<br \/>\nand sat in the church alone.<br \/>\nIt stayed with me:<br \/>\nthat there were two of them and then just one.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"Carole Coates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/?page_id=75\">More about Carole Coates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carole Coates ISBN 978-0-9928946-4-1 Price \u00a35 Out of Stock When her life was inexplicably thrown into turmoil, Carole Coates had both the presence of mind and the skill to record the experience and in so doing has produced beautiful examples of how personal difficulty can transform itself into art. With candour, compassion and wit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5v6l4-1O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayleavepress.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}