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Thanks Cam!
Incoming. This is a beautiful thing by @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social
Tender poems about father/son relationships and working/middle class identities. Some of these will be appearing in our forthcoming 'The Sea, The Sea'.
Thanks Iain!
My son had been tasked with writing a poem for school, so we had sat down and written together. It is a poem against cynicism and the mess we are in. It is about love (and doughnuts in ice cream).
For Christmas I got a puzzle where I had to move a cube around until it formed a cheeky fat baby.
It was a Cherubic’s Cube.
Organised as a series of secular prayers to things of this earth, these lyrical prose poems insist upon working class experience in a world perpetually haunted by what is erased.
Devotional for a Hill - From 55 Devotionals (Against Erasure), Broken Sleep Books
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
The Turdis!
Today’s fave bit of lit: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au.
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode.
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025
Thomas Lytch from the poem Village
by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape)
Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#clearing #poetry #Alevelresults
Farewell Loch Thom by WS Graham
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#poetry #books #clearing #poems
At The Parrot Sanctuary - from The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe)
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#creativewriting #poetry #clearing
The imperious De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
No worries. Hope you and family are well.
Ax
Mt Ventoux! what a stage!
Hey Carlton, hope yr keeping well. Look at this:
Hear me talk about why Creative Writing is for everyone and how to develop your craft on BBC Radio Cambs (starts at 14:40 after Bowie) and the free two-day course I’m running this week at University Centre Peterborough:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
There’s hope for me yet…
Thing is, the central reservation of British motorways and dual carriageways is super narrow compared to the US. Makes more sense to cover the embankments in wild flowers.
Not sure of the full benefits of attracting dwindling insect numbers onto land in the middle of a two way motorway lane system.
Pizza, chips and portal for Cthulu in Lidl.
Day one of the Fenland Literature symposium at UEA today organised by Rebecca Pinner and it was Fen female saints, kings and hermits plus how the fens are inspiring poems, novels and radio plays. Tomorrow I am presenting on the Fens as an uncanny space in literature:
First year Creative Writing student & Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough. Read about how the bursary has supported her.
helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross
First year Creative Writing student and Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). Read about how the bursary has supported her. 👇
lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing
Poetry relegated from the premier league:
Meanwhile, in #Norwich:
Francesca Gardner said British poets were "very interested" in the lawn
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
