In another poetry instalment, second year student Jess Buxton writes about an encroaching monotony in ‘Empty Kitchen’ and a bunch of flowers, wilting in a vase, that sat on her kitchen table during lockdown. Jess likens these images to mental health, exploring the idea that we often only realise in hindsight that we have not been kind to ourselves.
Read MoreSecond year English with Creative Writing student Jess Buxton pens two poems inspired by a colour page and a closed restaurant, but which invoke images of storms, oceans, oil, texture, and electrifying colour.
Read More2nd year Creative Writing student Amy Barrett writes about life and love in two poems, exploring turbulent childhoods and the image of a florist, selling dying flowers to blooming lovers, each with its own surface of positivity that can be unpicked and unravelled.
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 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 MoreSecond year Creative Writing student Grace Holden, responds to Sam Tempest’s poem in this new poetry collaboration and series, Lost Ticket.
Read MoreSecond year Creative Writing student Sam Tempest, responds to David Devanny’s inaugural poem for this new poetry collaboration and series, Lost Ticket.
Read MoreOur very own poet and lecturer, David Devanny. initiates this new poetry collaboration with the first poem.
Read MoreFirst year Creative Writing students have been exploring writing about, back to, from and responding to texts of all kinds using texts as source material (literally and thematically), creative responses, as well as critical responses.
Read MoreEileen Walden reacts to the artwork of Luke Hamel-Cook in this latest edition to the Woodlane Windows series.
Read MoreIn this poem, third year Creative Writing student Morag Smith pictures the desolate life of the last tiger on Earth.
Read MoreMorag Smith, 2nd year Creative Writing student, recounts her experience at Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival and shares her festival-inspired reading list.
Read MoreIn the tenth installment of our two poems series, first year Creative Writing student Dylan Dawson takes us to where the winder and hope may be.
Read MoreIn the sixth installment of our two poems series, Luke Thompson takes us to an intricate world of small movements and waggling fingers.
Read MoreIn the fifth installment of our two poems series, alumna Sarah Cave takes us out of this world and helps us explore what’s out there.
Read MoreIn the second installment of our new Woodlane Windows series, poet and senior lecturer Rupert M Loydell reacts to the work of Fine Art student and artist Erik Whitaker.
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