{"id":4432,"date":"2016-03-10T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/product\/wound\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:06:53","slug":"wound","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/product\/wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Richard Scott &#8211; Wound<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">OUT OF STOCK<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Suppose you could travel back, in the obscure regions of memory, to the origin of desire? For Richard Scott, and perhaps for all of us, that beginning point is a wound \u2013 an occasion of harm, a lack \u2013 that forever after shapes our sense of what it is to want.\u00a0 For the martyred saints on display in the parish church, \u201cdevotion is a perpetual hurt.\u201d Scott\u2019s poems chronicle violation \u2013 in the van of the unforgettable fishmonger among \u201cthe stopped hearts of bivalves pickled in brine\/\u2026resting on clouds of ice,\u201d or at the hands of the butcher\u2019s apprentice: \u201cOh to be your prey!\/ Hang me up\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Brave and aching poems, yes, but not merely so; Scott\u2019s resonant language veers between the plain and the rapturous, testifying to the persistence, no matter what, of pleasure.<br \/>\n<em>Mark Doty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wound\u00a0impresses with its colourful cast of lovers, martyrs, predators and porn stars, leading the reader on a journey into the lower lit corners of sexual experience and desire. Scott is a poet with something to say and the considerable skills with which to express it in the most memorable lyric terms. \u2018All of us are capable of great change\u2019, reflects one of his striking characters: I was reminded, throughout, of the transformative power of art.<br \/>\n<em>Colette Bryce<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Wound, Richard Scott conveys the affliction of desire, that entanglement of cruelty and tenderness, with an unwholesome intensity. His carefully shaped poems are both poignant and pungent, articulated with a smarting self-awareness. They read like the kind of official warning you can\u2019t help taking as a recommendation.<br \/>\n<em>Gregory Woods<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ISBN 9781909632059<br \/>\nWire bound pamphlet, 36pp including cover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SOLD OUT<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suppose you could travel back, in the obscure regions of memory, to the origin of desire? For Richard Scott, and perhaps for all of us, that beginning point is a wound \u2013 an occasion of harm, a lack \u2013 that forever after shapes our sense of what it is to want.\u00a0 For the martyred saints on display in the parish church, \u201cdevotion is a perpetual hurt.\u201d Scott\u2019s poems chronicle violation \u2013 in the van of the unforgettable fishmonger among \u201cthe stopped hearts of bivalves pickled in brine\/\u2026resting on clouds of ice,\u201d or at the hands of the butcher\u2019s apprentice: \u201cOh to be your prey!\/ Hang me up\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Brave and aching poems, yes, but not merely so; Scott\u2019s resonant language veers between the plain and the rapturous, testifying to the persistence, no matter what, of pleasure.<br \/>\n<em>Mark Doty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 9781909632059<br \/>\nWire bound pamphlet, 32pp plus cover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4433,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[171],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4432","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-bridge_pamphlets","7":"product_shipping_class-pamphlets","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}