{"id":932,"date":"2016-04-14T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=932"},"modified":"2016-04-14T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:29:28","slug":"a-new-poetry-collection-from-joanna-ezekiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"A new poetry collection from Joanna Ezekiel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\n<p>Joanna\u2019s latest poetry collection is <em>Homecoming<\/em>, published by Scarborough publisher, Valley Press, winner of a recent Arts Council grant.\u00a0The editors say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Homecoming-provis-cover-7-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Homecoming-provis-cover-7-v2-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Homecoming provis cover 7 v2\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Homecoming-provis-cover-7-v2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Homecoming-provis-cover-7-v2.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>&#8216;By necessity, to come home is to look with fresh eyes at what is familiar. Joanna Ezekiel&#8217;s exquisite second collection captures this experience with a combination of quiet observation and vivid sensuality. She draws on her British Jewish upbringing and Indian Jewish heritage to explore what it means to belong to a family, to a country, to a culture in poems that sing with warmth and generosity. Playful juxtapositions of characters and landscapes create a sense of the unexpected, and her treatment of the past is as subtle as her commentary on the present. Evocative and tender, Homecoming is a collection that invites the reader into an unfamiliar place and makes them feel at home.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleypressuk.com\/\">http:\/\/www.valleypressuk.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna\u2019s latest poetry collection is Homecoming, published by Scarborough publisher, Valley Press, winner of a recent Arts Council grant.\u00a0The editors say: &#8216;By necessity, to come home is to look with fresh eyes at what is familiar. Joanna Ezekiel&#8217;s exquisite second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=932\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}