A poetry instalment from Samuel Birnie.
Read MoreThird-year student Alicia Burden writes a sestina poem exploring the striking difference between being lonely and alone.
Read MoreThe third entry in Rupture, a series about queerness, the body and everything that waits in the middle. Featuring third year Creative Writing student Yazmin White.
Read MoreThe third entry in Rupture, a series about queerness, the body and everything that waits in the middle.
Read MoreThe second entry in Rupture, a series about queerness, the body and everything that waits in the middle.
Read MoreIn the second instalment of a two-part poetry series, Olivia Caldwell pens two poems packed full of anatomical imagery.
Read More‘Consider Me’ is a poem full of contrasts by second year creative writing student Olivia Caldwell, and is the first of a two-part poetry series.
Read More‘Ashes Ashes’ is a poem celebrating a huge coppiced ash tree known amongst the Tregoniggie Woodland community as the ‘Tregoniggie Titan’. Ash trees in the UK are under threat from disease, ash dieback, which threatens to wipe out the entire ash population, and third year student Nicky Peters writes with this in mind, creating a poem that is an homage and a possible farewell to a fascinating member of the woodland community.
Read MoreInspired by a residency at the Roger and Laura Farnworth Arts Residency in Bodmin, Nicky Peter’s poems ‘Fungus Symbiosis’ and ‘Other Apples in the Orchard 2’ are an inquiry into the disgusting, surreal, and warped version of tree life that is often ignored in favour of more romantic readings of the natural world. The poems explore the symbiotic relationship between tree root and fungus, and the moments of decay that aesthetic images of apple orchards omit.
Read MoreFirst year student Leonora Ellis writes about anxiety and finding someone to weather the storm with you in her poem ‘Win It All’.
Read MoreIn the second instalment of her three part series, 2nd year creative writing student Hailey O’Gorman explores illness and things that scare her through poetry and collage. When she was 16, she suffered with scurvy - these are small snippets of memory from that time.
Read MoreFirst year student Joe Cobb explores the world’s dangers and being pulled down two equally unsavoury paths in this allegorical poem about wolves, sheep, and shepherds.
Read MoreInterview with Cornish author Natasha Carthew by MA Professional Writing student Klaudia Hanssen.
Read MoreIn the fifth instalment of the MaynxFalWriting series, Nadia Leigh-Hewitson and Liz Tollemache explore ideas of ‘home’ in poetry and photography.
Read MoreThird year English and Creative Writing student Jasper Evans, responds to Nicki Peter’s poem in the last installment of the Lost Ticket poetry collaboration and series.
Read MoreThird year English student Nicki Peters, responds to Max King’s poem in this new poetry collaboration and series, Lost Ticket.
Read MoreSecond year English student Max King, responds to Grace Holden’s poem in this new poetry collaboration and series, Lost Ticket.
Read MoreIn this poem, 2nd year English student Cherie Woodhouse, explores what life was like before the lockdown and the losses we are experience it because of it.
Read MoreIn this startlingly gentle sequence, graduate Kieran McGuigan’s soft delivery and experiments with sound and structure will leave you wondering what just happened, and if it can please happen again.
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