{"id":1005,"date":"2023-10-31T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/?page_id=1005"},"modified":"2023-11-12T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:24:15","slug":"the-temperate-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/artists-books\/the-temperate-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Temperate House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A project with two narratives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs taken in the greenhouses of the Botanics in Edinburgh. Man-made forms appear organic, and plant structures and shapes suggest functionality, as if branching stems were pumping heat through the building, and metal pipes and thermometers growing, moving to the light.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2068-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"The Temperate House\" class=\"wp-image-1054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2068-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2068-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2068-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2068-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2068-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Poetry is the other narrative. Fragments of conversations overhead during lockdown, such as the final poem The Temperate House, after which the book is named. Temperate mean mild, moderate. If you are a temperate person, you are calm, reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2059-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"The Temperate House\" class=\"wp-image-1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2059-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2059-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2059-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2059-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2059-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Other poems in the book are autobiographical, document a period of personal change. Rather than curbed, disciplined and inhibited as the word suggests, this is rather about locating the measure of the self, establishing the range, climate and degree needed for growth.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"The Temperate House\" class=\"wp-image-1055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_2095-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Coming in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Temperate House\" class=\"wp-image-1037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/EdinburghAndElsewhere_CM_TheTemperateHouse-2048x2048-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project with two narratives. Photographs taken in the greenhouses of the Botanics in Edinburgh. Man-made forms appear organic, and plant structures and shapes suggest functionality, as if branching stems were pumping heat through the building, and metal pipes and thermometers growing, moving to the&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/artists-books\/the-temperate-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Temperate House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1056,"parent":504,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1005","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions\/1058"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostpathpress.co.uk\/edinburghandelsewhere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}