poetry

Lauren Aspery, a Newcastle Student and twice winner of the Terry Kelly Poetry Prize is calling for more Newcastle students to enter the competition that rewarded her literary debut two years ago. The ...

Our latest weekly poetry submission is Every Drop by Olivia Blackham...

Charlotte Boulton, music editor, and Julia McGee-Russell, arts editor, give you the run down of the best open mics Newcastle has to offer...

Julia McGee-Russell's poem about and photo of her mother....

Grace Dean's poem about her mother for Mother's Day....

She’s standing there in a hazed light, a yellow aureole above her head and a white robe. Wings held her up above clouds as she smiled, so alive and so beautiful. Gracefully aged, her white hair was ...

Alicia Brittle's poem: Girl's Like Us....

Elena Trayanova brings us our first PoemBox, with a poem entitled Aethetics. ...

Charlotte Boulton kindly invites us into her world of performance poetry. ...

Elena Trayanova shares her 'Ode to the Oxymoron' with us....

Tamsin Daisy Rees tells us all about Hollie McNish's fantastic show for her book 'Plum'....

Sophie Henderson shares her thoughts on Rupi Kaur's latest book 'The Sun and Her Flowers'....

Chris Wilkinson shares his thoughts on Inua Ellams' 'An Evening with an Immigrant' and why it is such an important show in our time....

Sinéad Morrissey, a celebrated poet born in Northern Ireland, has just been appointed as a Professor of Creative Writing in the School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics at Newcastle Un...

How is it that, in 1914, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska drew a nude of me, 1914 – when I wasn’t even a thought, not a little bean or nucleus, no sperm swimming to egg and egg; fallopian tube in utero but n...