Kokeshi I am the gaijin on the outside looking in, you, intrigued by me, see what you want to see: a tall nose, a little face, a doll to look at, but never embrace, a doll you’d … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Competitions and Other Opportunities
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Winning a competition or being published by a reputable publication add to your publications credit, hence we are adding a new category to our blog – competitions and other publishing opportunities for writers. This will be added once a month. Please … Continue reading
Poets’ and Writers’ News: a Special Edition
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As we thought it could not get any better than having our much-anticipated launch of Bridges, an anthology of best poetry and fiction written by MA in Creative Writing and MA in Writing Poetry students, Natalie Crick, one of the authors, … Continue reading
Chloe Bent
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Pathetic Fallacy, or Something Ted leans back in his chair and closes his eyes, trying to block out the chatter and footsteps around him. He slips a hand into his pocket and feels his shoulders relax at the weight … Continue reading
Seán Kiely
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Bull after Michael Lyons’sculpture in wax and steel, Mithras Suite IX (The Eighth Gate), The Hatton Gallery. What God rose from earth to split this brute in two? To tear muscle from shoulder, horn from skull, ravage the … Continue reading
Sixtine Duvieusart
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Book You should stop. You should stop right there, right now, turn around and head back to work. You promised you wouldn’t do this again. You promised your mom, you promised your dad, … Continue reading
Vanessa Lampert
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Becky There is a woman in this town who’s my double. I’m not saying it this way round in vanity. It’s just I’m slightly older. We have the same kind of hair and skin. We dress similarly. It’s a … Continue reading
Rhona Tolchard
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Hating Miss Harper “Off me clean sheets, you little divils! I’ll tell your mam, mind! I will!” We’d been in the back lane, me and my little brother Neil, running in and out of the sheets hanging on the … Continue reading
Arpit Kaushik
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Neuro-Mandala A poem inspired by Anjali B Purkayastha’s ‘Home’ I can float here on these outlines of clouds unfilled, nested within borders, in teal self-led and self-reflected. There are no rainbows, only a sense of them mono-coloured … Continue reading
Writers’ and Poets’ News
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We are starting the week of our anthology launch with a nice list of good news about our writers and poets: Vanessa Lampert was a Top 10 finalist at the Troubadour International International Poetry Prize 2018, judged by Daljit Nagra and … Continue reading