{"id":138,"date":"2012-11-07T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138"},"modified":"2014-07-02T16:40:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:40:42","slug":"soundtrack-for-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack for the End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-337\" title=\"\u00a9 SJ Kim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JKimforGLewis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JKimforGLewis.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JKimforGLewis-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>with thanks to Hugh Hunt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Promise me leaf-blowers will cut out first,<br \/>\nSpinning in sparkless Catherine Wheels,<br \/>\nBlue bottles dying. \u2018Yes. Burglar alarms<br \/>\nWill wail for a while, calling for mates. Soon<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll despair. Airplanes will circle<br \/>\nThen disappear into spray chevrons.<br \/>\nSurvive some time and there will be<br \/>\nDistant explosions exciting no panic but<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; click click click of junction boxes<br \/>\nCounting the sins of traffic lights \u2013<br \/>\nUnwatched, indifferent, in perfect sequence\u2026<\/p>\n<p>If, like me, you\u2019ve placed your mind<br \/>\nIn a mine so deep you can hear the hum<br \/>\nIn neutrino catastrophes, you\u2019ll know<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no silence. So, as a swallow holds still,<br \/>\nHears earth roar under her breast, forcing<br \/>\nRiver droplets into her mouth, I too<br \/>\nBear sheaves of insects thrust hard<br \/>\nInto my barely open beak<br \/>\nAs I scream &lt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Promise me leaf-blowers will cut out first,<br \/>\nSpinning in sparkless Catherine Wheels<br \/>\nThen dying like blue-bottles.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soundtrack for the End of the World - The Manchester Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Soundtrack for the End of the World - The Manchester Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#039;Promise me leaf-blowers will cut out first, Spinning in sparkless Catherine Wheels Then dying like blue-bottles.&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Manchester Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-07T10:10:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-02T16:40:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JKimforGLewis.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"604\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gwyneth Lewis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gwyneth Lewis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138\",\"name\":\"Soundtrack for the End of the World - The Manchester Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-11-07T10:10:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-02T16:40:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/92094b55d3850c3c6e6732e563db0396\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=138#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Soundtrack for the End of the World\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"The Manchester Review\",\"description\":\"The Manchester Review\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/92094b55d3850c3c6e6732e563db0396\",\"name\":\"Gwyneth Lewis\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif\",\"caption\":\"Gwyneth Lewis\"},\"description\":\"Gwyneth Lewis was Wales's National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. 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