Posts tagged POETRY
Rupture 4 by Yazmin White and Hailey O'Gorman

The 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.

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Rupture 3 by Nathan Copeland

The third entry in Rupture, a series about queerness, the body and everything that waits in the middle.

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Rupture 2 by Kitto Maddrell

The second entry in Rupture, a series about queerness, the body and everything that waits in the middle.

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'Ashes, Ashes' by Nicky Peters

‘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.

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'Below Densham’s Delight: Fungus Symbiosis' and 'Other Apples in the Orchard 2' by Nicky Peters

Inspired 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.

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The Memory ii by Hailey O'Gorman

In 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.

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The Shepherd by Joseph Cobb

First 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.

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