{"id":133904,"date":"2020-02-27T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/27\/simon-armitage-plans-national-headquarters-for-poetry-in-leeds\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T01:01:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:01:32","slug":"simon-armitage-plans-national-headquarters-for-poetry-in-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=133904","title":{"rendered":"Simon Armitage plans national &#039;headquarters&#039; for poetry in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet laureate lays out ideas to give the country an official home for the practice, in line with other \u2018national art forms\u2019The art world has the National Gallery; drama has the National Theatre. Now poet laureate Simon Armitage is putting plans in motion for a National Poetry Centre \u201cheadquarters\u201d in Leeds.The National Poetry Centre is intended to be a public space with an extensive poetry collection, several rehearsal and performances spaces, and a cafe, where literary events can be held, writers can exchange ideas, and visiting authors can stay. It is backed by Leeds city council, the University of Leeds and Leeds 2023 \u2013 a year-long celebration of arts and culture in the city. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/feb\/27\/simon-armitage-plans-national-headquarters-for-poetry-in-leeds-poet-laureate\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Armitage plans national &#039;headquarters&#039; for poetry in Leeds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet laureate lays out ideas to give the country an official home for the practice, in line with other \u2018national art forms\u2019The art world has the National Gallery; drama has the National Theatre. Now poet laureate Simon Armitage is putting plans in motion for a National Poetry Centre \u201cheadquarters\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}