{"id":7643,"date":"2024-08-15T01:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/photographer-collects-images-for-new-edition-of-a-shropshire-lad\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T01:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:08:22","slug":"photographer-collects-images-for-new-edition-of-a-shropshire-lad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/photographer-collects-images-for-new-edition-of-a-shropshire-lad\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer collects images for new edition of A Shropshire Lad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An updated edition of acclaimed poetry collection A Shropshire Lad includes dozens of images taken by a local photographer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Hayward is part of a family photography business. He was approached by Ludlow publisher Merlin Unwin Books to provide shots of Shropshire to accompany the words of A. E. Housman, who was born near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, in 1859.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Shropshire Lad &#8211; Housman&#8217;s first book of 63 poems &#8211; was published in 1896 and has never been out of print. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC presenter Nick Owen is a lifelong lover of Housman&#8217;s work, having been introduced to it as a Shropshire schoolboy by his father Bertie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owen, who still owns a pre-War version of A Shropshire Lad, agrees with the photographer that Housman&#8217;s words still resonate with people, reflecting a &#8220;county that has such a strong place in my heart&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">A film by John Bray<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-shropshire-66749316\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An updated edition of acclaimed poetry collection A Shropshire Lad includes dozens of images taken by a local photographer. John Hayward is part of a family photography business. He was approached by Ludlow publisher Merlin Unwin Books to provide shots of Shropshire to accompany the words of A. E. Housman, who was born near Bromsgrove, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4311,3962,341,4313,264,4312],"class_list":["post-7643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-collects","tag-edition","tag-images","tag-lad","tag-photographer","tag-shropshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7643\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}