{"id":510,"date":"2020-05-10T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2024-01-15T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T11:11:02","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Writing News<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m thrilled that my poem &#8216;My Mother Unwraps My Gift of Frida Kahlo&#8217;s Me and My Parrots&#8217; won <strong>First Prize <\/strong>in the Wigtown Poetry Prize. You can<a href=\"https:\/\/wigtownbookfestival.com\/library\/john-wheway\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> read it here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> My Full collection<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m excited to announce that my new poetry collection, <em>A Bluebottle in Late October<\/em>, published by <a href=\"http:\/\/vpresspoetry.blogspot.com\/p\/bookshop.html\">V.Press<\/a> on May 18th 2020, is available for worldwide delivery via Paypal or any card \u2013 see below. <strong>N.B Check postage rates outside UK in drop-down menu.<\/strong> Read more about the book on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/?page_id=74\">my publications<\/a> page. Watch me reading poems from the book in videos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/?page_id=512\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/?page_id=512\">on my blog.<\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnwheway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1589455414.jpg?resize=625%2C809&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"809\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnwheway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1589455414.jpg?w=727&amp;ssl=1 727w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnwheway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1589455414.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnwheway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1589455414.jpg?resize=624%2C808&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"85GVHA4KMWDNQ\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Prices with P&#038;P\">Prices with P&#038;P<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"UK p &#038; p\">UK p &#038; p \u00a312.99 GBP<\/option><option value=\"Europe\">Europe \u00a315.50 GBP<\/option><option value=\"USA\">USA \u00a316.50 GBP<\/option><option value=\"NZ\/Aus\/Japan\">NZ\/Aus\/Japan \u00a316.90 GBP<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/GB\/i\/btn\/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal \u2013 The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_GB\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><br \/>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing News I&#8217;m thrilled that my poem &#8216;My Mother Unwraps My Gift of Frida Kahlo&#8217;s Me and My Parrots&#8217; won First Prize in the Wigtown Poetry Prize. You can read it here My Full collection I&#8217;m excited to announce that my new poetry collection, A Bluebottle in Late October, published by V.Press on May 18th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7DaEn-8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2,"url":"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/?page_id=2","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":0},"title":"Sample Writing","author":"afterthebeginning","date":"June 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"These links take you to some of my work online, sometimes directly to the page, otherwise to the volume: 2023 Poetry Publications My Mother Unwraps My Gift of Frida Kahlo's Me and My Parrots, Wigtown International Poetry Prize, First Prize Winning Poem, September 2023 On A Folio of Vermeer's Paintings,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.johnwheway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_1275.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/www.johnwheway.com\/?page_id=17","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":1},"title":"About","author":"afterthebeginning","date":"June 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I began to write in childhood, and in my early twenties had fiction published by Faber and Faber. 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