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Our Obsidian Tongues <\/em>is reviewed in Magma 57, available from 11 November 2013<\/p>\n

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Our Obsidian Tongues is reviewed in Magma 57, available from 11 November 2013 http:\/\/magmapoetry.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni_news","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-9W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":609,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=609","url_meta":{"origin":616,"position":0},"title":"MSt students and alumni: poetry success for David Shook, Sophie Clark, Mariah Whelan, Alexandra Strnad, Kiran Milwood Hargrave, Maya Popa","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"November 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"MSt in Creative Writing students and alumni have been very successful in 2012-2013, publishing, being listed for and winning prizes and residencies, and working with other poets and aspiring poets. 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