Week Five

Following Tracks

Non-Fiction Following Tracks explores beauty in the quotidian, extracting poetic pleasure from everyday scenes and objects encountered on a coastal walk. Featuring photography from Dean Smith.                 Knowing how way leads on to way Robert Frost A mammal swells and circles and lays him down. You and I …

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Once Upon A Time

Poetry Once Upon A Time compares the passage of time with the turning of the night sky, the stars showing transience as well as permanence. I used to watch with you And now the galaxy seems too big To contain those times when we walked hand in hand How can distance be measured By the …

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Et In Argot Ego

Non-Fiction Et In Argot Ego is a genre-leaping essay which delivers a passionate defence, and celebration with relish, of the English language’s reflexivity. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the cases for and against those who stand before you. You have heard that while they admit they have been seen, heard and …

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Duncan’s Last Request

Prose Duncan’s Last Request tracks three men in the highlands exploring trauma, companionship, and the unexpected tenderness of an old alcoholic. After a week of drunken arguments and even drunker confessions, we were surprised to learn that Duncan had fond memories of his childhood. Driving in the autumn, always late at night, with his father …

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