{"id":259,"date":"2021-02-05T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T11:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/?p=259"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T11:54:18","slug":"poetry-creative-writing-student-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/2021\/02\/05\/poetry-creative-writing-student-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry, Creative Writing &#8211; Student Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Poetry is a thriving Creative Writing discipline in the School of English Literature, Language &amp; Linguistics. Through the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ncla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts<\/a>\u00a0(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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poetry is another popular Creative Writing strand available to QW38: English Literature with Creative Writing students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2021\/02\/eldar-nazarov-QoBHQuiu9N0-unsplash-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"260\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2021\/02\/eldar-nazarov-QoBHQuiu9N0-unsplash-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/?attachment_id=260\" class=\"wp-image-260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2021\/02\/eldar-nazarov-QoBHQuiu9N0-unsplash-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2021\/02\/eldar-nazarov-QoBHQuiu9N0-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2021\/02\/Holding-Hands-Among-The-Hedgehogs-2.pdf\">Holding Hands Among The Hedgehogs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/files\/2021\/02\/Holding-Hands-Among-The-Hedgehogs-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Students were given 2 options for this poetry assignment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a) write a poem about holding hands<br>b) write a poem that describes an ordinary household item as though it were an animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given this assignment, what would you write about? We asked for a short poem, approx. 14 lines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you\u2019ve enjoyed this insight into the exciting work our students have been creating this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions about Newcastle University School of English Literature, Language &amp; Linguistics with email&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/2021\/02\/04\/the-nature-of-language-student-work-20-21\/english@ncl.ac.uk\">english@ncl.ac.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry is a thriving Creative Writing discipline in the School of English Literature, Language &amp; Linguistics. Through the\u00a0Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts\u00a0(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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/2021\/02\/05\/poetry-creative-writing-student-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry, Creative Writing &#8211; Student Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,45,9,44],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offer-holder","tag-creativewriting","tag-offer-holder","tag-offerholder","tag-student-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/selll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}