{"id":5965,"date":"2020-08-04T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2020-08-04T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:06:00","slug":"ellen-dillon-two-poems-from-butterbusinessliving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/5965\/ellen-dillon-two-poems-from-butterbusinessliving\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Dillon: Two Poems from butter\/business\/living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: These poems\u00a0come from a sequence of documentary poems I\u2019m currently working on (provisionally) called\u00a0<em>butter\/business\/living<\/em>. This project uses a range of literary and scholarly sources about dairy, particularly butter, to explore the social history of Ireland over the last thousand years.<\/p>\n<p>The first poem attached \u2018A Vision of Whitemeats,\u2019 collages text from a translation of an 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century satirical poem, \u2018McConglinne\u2019s Vision.\u2019 It adapts the\u00a0<em>d\u00e1n d\u00edreach<\/em>\u00a0form of the source text, quatrains of seven-syllable lines interspersed with prose commentary. The second poem, \u2018Milk Testing (for butterfat)\u2019 is the final poem of the sequence and is a collage of alphabetised samples from the preceding poems.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ellen-Dillon_A-Vision-of-Whitemeats-2.pdf\">A Vision of Whitemeats 2<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ellen-Dillon_milk-testing-.pdf\">milk testing<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ellen Dillon is a writer and teacher from Limerick, Ireland. Her pamphlet\u00a0<em>Excavate (Poems after Pasolini)<\/em>\u00a0has been published by Oystercatcher Press,\u00a0<em>Achatina, achatina!<\/em>\u00a0is forthcoming from SoundEye Press and\u00a0<em>Sonnets to Malkmus<\/em>\u00a0is available from Sad Press. Some of her poems have appeared in\u00a0<em>Amberflora<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Banshee<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Datableed<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Erotoplasty<\/em>,\u00a0<em>MOTE<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Stand<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Stinging Fly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Zarf<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: These poems\u00a0come from a sequence of documentary poems I\u2019m currently working on (provisionally) called\u00a0butter\/business\/living. This project uses a range of literary and scholarly sources about dairy, particularly butter, to explore the social history of Ireland over the last thousand years. The first poem attached \u2018A Vision of Whitemeats,\u2019 collages text from a translation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[56,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Unknown.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}