{"id":3116,"date":"2020-05-14T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:25:15","slug":"highly-commended-emily-cooper-garlicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"Highly Commended: Emily Cooper, <h6>&#8216;Garlicking&#8217;<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Cooper&#8217;s poem &#8216;Garlicking&#8217; has\u00a0been Highly Commended in the 2020 <a title=\"Content related to Newcastle Poetry Competition\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?tag=newcastle-poetry-competition\">Newcastle Poetry Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/410502333\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garlicking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until I was an adult I always burnt the garlic \u2013<\/p>\n<p>it charcoals so quickly in hot oil.<\/p>\n<p>To temper the heat you must first add onions,<\/p>\n<p>perhaps some carrots and celery. If you choose<\/p>\n<p>to add the garlic first never look away.<\/p>\n<p>Soon you add the tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>A quick cooling is civilising. Such as a swim<\/p>\n<p>in a cold sea after you have had a row.<\/p>\n<p>The sea and tears have the same composition,<\/p>\n<p>they taste the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Consider wildgarlicking your sourdough.<\/p>\n<p>It will not rise. The antiseptic qualities of the garlic<\/p>\n<p>interfere with the propagation of the yeast.<\/p>\n<p>Their similar wildnesses do nothing to cohere<\/p>\n<p>the two. You must add larger volumes of yeast. Allow it<\/p>\n<p>to bubble to excess. Give longer rising times. Be gentle<\/p>\n<p>but not overly considerate. Use the better basket.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Raw garlic thins the blood.<\/p>\n<p>My Grandfather swore by it. A garlic clove in the vagina<\/p>\n<p>is a treatment for thrush. Be forewarned of the lingering<\/p>\n<p>metallic taste of garlic in your mouth. Do not be alarmed.<\/p>\n<p>It seems obvious, all these things are connected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Emily S Cooper has been published in <em>the Stinging Fly<\/em>, <em>Banshee<\/em>, <em>Hotel<\/em> and <em>Poetry Ireland Review<\/em>. In 2019 she took part in Poetry Ireland Introductions and was a recipient of the Next Generation Award by the Arts Council of Ireland. Her debut pamphlet comes out with Makina Books this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Cooper&#8217;s poem &#8216;Garlicking&#8217; has\u00a0been Highly Commended in the 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition. &nbsp; Garlicking &nbsp; Until I was an adult I always burnt the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[668,664,604,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}