Poetry is a thriving Creative Writing discipline in the School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics. Through the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA) the School provides a site for enhancing the public understanding of poetry. The NCLA hosts a popular and wide-ranging programme of regular visiting poets from around the world.
Poetry is another popular Creative Writing strand available to QW38: English Literature with Creative Writing students.
‘Holding Hands Among The Hedgehogs (available to download above) is an example of poetry written by a QW38 student who has kindly given permission for us to share their work.
Students were given 2 options for this poetry assignment:
a) write a poem about holding hands
b) write a poem that describes an ordinary household item as though it were an animal.
Given this assignment, what would you write about? We asked for a short poem, approx. 14 lines.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this insight into the exciting work our students have been creating this year.
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