{"id":5053,"date":"2013-08-21T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2013-08-21T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T09:25:55","slug":"doireann-ni-ghriofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/doireann-ni-ghriofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Doireann N\u00ed Ghr\u00edofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mother Tongue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I bestow new words upon you<\/p>\n<p>slippery syllables<\/p>\n<p>like silken drops of milk between your lips.<\/p>\n<p>your eyes widen in recognition.<\/p>\n<p>word by word,<\/p>\n<p>your kingdom<\/p>\n<p>expands<\/p>\n<p>extends<\/p>\n<p>as you take grasp control<\/p>\n<p>of the sovereignty of your own story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doireann N\u00ed Ghr\u00edofa<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in literary journals in Ireland, and internationally.\u00a0The Arts Council of Ireland has twice awarded\u00a0her\u00a0a\u00a0literature\u00a0bursary (2011 and 2013). Her pamphlet of <em>Ouroboros<\/em>\u00a0has recently been longlisted for The Venture Award (UK). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doireannnighriofa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is her website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note:\u00a0 This poem previously appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00DEFU9AO\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ropes Anthology 201<\/em>3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mother Tongue &nbsp; I bestow new words upon you slippery syllables like silken drops of milk between your lips. your eyes widen in recognition. word by word, your kingdom expands extends as you take grasp control of the sovereignty of your own story. &nbsp; &nbsp; Doireann N\u00ed Ghr\u00edofa\u2019s poems have appeared in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}