{"id":3126,"date":"2020-05-14T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T12:26:02","slug":"highly-commended-claudine-toutoungi-the-marmots-are-suffocating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3126","title":{"rendered":"Highly Commended: Claudine Toutoungi, <h6>&#8216;The marmots are suffocating&#8217;<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claudine Toutoungi&#8217;s poem &#8216;The marmots are suffocating&#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\/413606329\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The marmots are suffocating<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>J\u2019admire votre h\u00e9risson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>you tell the woman in the artisanal cake shop<\/p>\n<p>because it isn\u2019t every day you see a chocolate-sculpted<\/p>\n<p>hedgehog<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and in the forest glade<\/p>\n<p>upon discovering that all wild bees<\/p>\n<p>are welcome at the bee hotel you ask the hive<\/p>\n<p><em>and what about les abeilles domestiques?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the hive makes no reply<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>likewise the mountains<\/p>\n<p>\u2014textbook blanket<\/p>\n<p>silence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>you<\/p>\n<p>below<\/p>\n<p>overcompensating<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>filling the void with topic after random chitchat topic: <em>le kilom\u00e8tre vertical<\/em>, the recipe for <em>tartiflette<\/em>, the conjunction of the sirocco and foehn that blew a little bird straight through the restaurant, the cat Macaroon <em>(perdu ou vol\u00e9)<\/em> and the writing on the wall in the tunnel under the bridge:<\/p>\n<p><em>ici les marmottes suffoquent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Claudine Toutoungi\u2019s poetry is widely published in publications including <em>Poetry<\/em>, <em>PN Review<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>The New Statesman<\/em> and her plays for radio and stage include <em>Slipping<\/em>, <em>Deliverers<\/em> and <em>The Inheritors<\/em>. Her first poetry collection, <em>Smoothie<\/em>, is published by Carcanet, while her second, <em>Two Tongues<\/em>, also from Carcanet, is forthcoming in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudine Toutoungi&#8217;s poem &#8216;The marmots are suffocating&#8217; has\u00a0been Highly Commended in the 2020 Newcastle Poetry Competition. &nbsp; The marmots are suffocating &nbsp; J\u2019admire votre h\u00e9risson&#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":[671,664,604,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126"}],"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=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3127"}],"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=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}